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Intention expression in stuffed-toy robots based on force control

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A novel stuffed-toy robot that expresses its intentions through the sense of force and touch is proposed. The robot is so soft that one might wish to embrace it. Compliance of the robot can also be determined by holding its hands, similar to newborn babies or small animals.
Core technologies of our robot design include a distributed process multi-rate data-driven force control for the robot's arms and a new force sensor mechanism for detecting external forces acting on the arms. The robot can change its mobility by changing the stiffness of the force control to realize its intention expression.

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ACE '14: Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology
November 2014
422 pages
ISBN:9781450329453
DOI:10.1145/2663806
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  • (2015)Force controlled stuffed toy robotSIGGRAPH Asia 2015 Haptic Media And Contents Design10.1145/2818384.2818388(1-1)Online publication date: 2-Nov-2015
  • (2015)Force Control of Stuffed Toy Robot for Intention ExpressionHaptic Interaction10.1007/978-4-431-55690-9_29(153-155)Online publication date: 28-Jun-2015
  • (2014)Soft Mechanism and its Control for Mutual TouchingJournal of the Robotics Society of Japan10.7210/jrsj.32.67832:8(678-683)Online publication date: 2014

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