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Presentation 2012-02-18 16:10
Interruption Strategy for Delivery Robots Aware of Receiver's Condition
Takayuki Arai, Keita Takahashi, Masahide Kaneko (UEC)
Abstract (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) Robots that interact with humans are required to determine appropriate timing for interruption so as not to
disturb humans. In this paper, we present a delivery robot that can work with conditions where multiple people are talking; the
robot should determine the appropriate timing to approach to the receiver. The processing flow can be divided into two stages.
The first stage is the speaking person estimation, in which person identification using a color camera and sound source
localization using a microphone array are combined to estimate who is speaking now. Then, the result of the estimation is used
to update the state of the talking-state model we developed, which was formulated as a Markov model. Our model can
successfully handle the situation where the receiver him/her-self is not speaking now, but may be listening to other person.
Furthermore, social relations between the receiver and other people there can be reflected in the model to differentiate the
importance of the conversation according to the person he/she is talking with.
Keyword (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) Individual identification / Interruption / Delivery Robot / Conversation model / / / /  
Reference Info. ITE Tech. Rep., vol. 36, no. 8, ME2012-36, pp. 139-142, Feb. 2012.
Paper # ME2012-36 
Date of Issue 2012-02-11 (ME) 
ISSN Print edition: ISSN 1342-6893
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Conference Information
Committee ME  
Conference Date 2012-02-18 - 2012-02-18 
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Place (in English) Kando Gakuin Univ. 
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Conference Code 2012-02-ME 
Language Japanese 
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Title (in English) Interruption Strategy for Delivery Robots Aware of Receiver's Condition 
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Keyword(1) Individual identification  
Keyword(2) Interruption  
Keyword(3) Delivery Robot  
Keyword(4) Conversation model  
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1st Author's Name Takayuki Arai  
1st Author's Affiliation The University of Electro-Communications (UEC)
2nd Author's Name Keita Takahashi  
2nd Author's Affiliation The University of Electro-Communications (UEC)
3rd Author's Name Masahide Kaneko  
3rd Author's Affiliation The University of Electro-Communications (UEC)
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Date Time 2012-02-18 16:10:00 
Presentation Time 15 minutes 
Registration for ME 
Paper # ME2012-36 
Volume (vol) vol.36 
Number (no) no.8 
Page pp.139-142 
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Date of Issue 2012-02-11 (ME) 


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