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Context Aware Human-Robot and Human-Agent Interaction pp 237–256Cite as

Motion Control for Social Behaviors

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Creating social robots that can interact with humans autonomously is a growing and promising field of research. Indeed, there has been a significant increase in the number of platforms and applications for social robots. However, robots are not yet able to interact with humans in a natural and believable way. This is especially true for physically realistic robot that can be affected by the Uncanny Valley. This chapter is looking at motion control for a physically realistic robot named Nadine. Robot controllers for such robot need to produce behaviours that match the physical realism of the robot. This chapter describes a robot controller that allows such a robot to fully use the same modalities as humans during interaction. These include speech, facial and bodily expressions.

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    http://www.aldebaran-robotics.com/.

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    http://www.aldebaran-robotics.com/.

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    www.research.philips.com/technologies/projects/robotics.

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    http://www.iit.it/en/research/departments/icub-facility.html.

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    http://www.robotcub.org/.

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    http://www.geminoid.jp/en/index.html.

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    http://www.kokoro-dreams.co.jp/english/.

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    http://www.cereproc.com/en/products/sdk.

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Beck, A., Zhijun, Z., Magnenat-Thalmann, N. (2016). Motion Control for Social Behaviors. In: Magnenat-Thalmann, N., Yuan, J., Thalmann, D., You, BJ. (eds) Context Aware Human-Robot and Human-Agent Interaction. Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19947-4_11

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