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The orientation of conversational robots to face their interlocutors is essential for natural and efficient Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). In this paper, progress towards this objective is presented: a service robot able to detect the direction of a user, and orient itself towards him/her, in a complex auditive environment, using only voice and a 3-microphone system. This functionality is integrated within Spoken HRI using dialogue models and a cognitive architecture. The paper further discusses applications where robotic orientation benefits HRI, such as a tour-guide robot capable to guide a poster session and a “Marco Polo” game where a robot aims to follow a user purely by sound.
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Rascón, C., Avilés, H., Pineda, L.A. (2010). Robotic Orientation towards Speaker for Human-Robot Interaction. In: Kuri-Morales, A., Simari, G.R. (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence – IBERAMIA 2010. IBERAMIA 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6433. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16952-6_2
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