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Design of a Cloud-Based Robotic Platform for Accompanying and Interacting with Humans

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Social Robotics (ICSR 2017)

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Research involving the application of assistive robots to support humans during walking, in particular the elderly, are starting to flourish recently. This novelty brings doubts on which are the aspects necessary for robots to carry this task successfully. In this paper, we present a new cloud-based humanoid robot, conceived taking into account a previous feasibility study and an user-centered design approach. Experiments with the robot show its potential as a research tool to socially interact with its partner and walk in different scenarios while collecting gait sensorial data.

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  1. Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8573, Japan

    Bruno Leme, Chiara Piezzo, Masakazu Hirokawa & Kenji Suzuki

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  1. CNRS-AIST JRL, Tsukuba, Japan

    Abderrahmane Kheddar

  2. CNRS-AIST JRL, Tsukuba, Japan

    Eiichi Yoshida

  3. The National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Shuzhi Sam Ge

  4. University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

    Kenji Suzuki

  5. Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

    John-John Cabibihan

  6. CITEC, Bielefeld, Germany

    Friederike Eyssel

  7. Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas, USA

    Hongsheng He

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Leme, B., Piezzo, C., Hirokawa, M., Suzuki, K. (2017). Design of a Cloud-Based Robotic Platform for Accompanying and Interacting with Humans. In: Kheddar, A., et al. Social Robotics. ICSR 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10652. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70022-9_26

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