Institute develops robot evaluation tests

1986 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-74 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Robot Evaluation

scholarly journals Towards a communication model for a sociable companion robot

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Dwyer
Keyword(s):  
Human Robot Interaction ◽  
Communication Model ◽  
Robot Interaction ◽  
The Public ◽  
Assistive Robots ◽  
Technical Requirements ◽  
Long Term Study ◽  
Robot Evaluation ◽  
Socially Assistive Robot

Anxiety has a lifetime prevalence of 31% of Canadians (Katzman et al. 2014). In Canada, psychological services are only covered by provincial health insurance if the psychologist is employed in the public sector; this means long wait times in the public system or expensive private coverage (Canadian Psychological Association). Currently, social robots and Socially Assistive Robots (SAR) are used in the treatment of elderly individuals in nursing homes, as well as children with autism (Feil-Seifer & Matarić, 2011; Tapus et al., 2012). The following MRP is the first step in a long-term project that will contend with the issues faced by individuals with anxiety using a combined communications, social robotics, and mental health approach to develop an anxiety specific socially assistive robot companion. The focus of this MRP is the development of a communication model that includes three core aspects of a social robot companion: Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), anxiety disorders, and technical design. The model I am developing will consist of a series of suggestions for the robot that could be implemented in a long-term study. The model will include suggestions towards the design, communication means, and technical requirements, as well as a model for evaluating the robot from a Human-Robot- Interaction perspective. This will be done through an evaluation of three robots, Sphero’s BB-8 App Enabled Droid, Aldebaran’s Nao, and the Spin Master Zoomer robot. Evaluation measures include modified versions of Shneiderman’s (1992) evaluation of human-factors goals, Feil-Seifer et al.’s (2007) SAR evaluative questions, prompts for the description of both the communication methods and the physical characteristics, and a record of the emotional response of the user when interacting with the robot.

scholarly journals Towards a communication model for a sociable companion robot

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Dwyer
Keyword(s):  
Human Robot Interaction ◽  
Communication Model ◽  
Robot Interaction ◽  
The Public ◽  
Assistive Robots ◽  
Technical Requirements ◽  
Long Term Study ◽  
Robot Evaluation ◽  
Socially Assistive Robot

Anxiety has a lifetime prevalence of 31% of Canadians (Katzman et al. 2014). In Canada, psychological services are only covered by provincial health insurance if the psychologist is employed in the public sector; this means long wait times in the public system or expensive private coverage (Canadian Psychological Association). Currently, social robots and Socially Assistive Robots (SAR) are used in the treatment of elderly individuals in nursing homes, as well as children with autism (Feil-Seifer & Matarić, 2011; Tapus et al., 2012). The following MRP is the first step in a long-term project that will contend with the issues faced by individuals with anxiety using a combined communications, social robotics, and mental health approach to develop an anxiety specific socially assistive robot companion. The focus of this MRP is the development of a communication model that includes three core aspects of a social robot companion: Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), anxiety disorders, and technical design. The model I am developing will consist of a series of suggestions for the robot that could be implemented in a long-term study. The model will include suggestions towards the design, communication means, and technical requirements, as well as a model for evaluating the robot from a Human-Robot- Interaction perspective. This will be done through an evaluation of three robots, Sphero’s BB-8 App Enabled Droid, Aldebaran’s Nao, and the Spin Master Zoomer robot. Evaluation measures include modified versions of Shneiderman’s (1992) evaluation of human-factors goals, Feil-Seifer et al.’s (2007) SAR evaluative questions, prompts for the description of both the communication methods and the physical characteristics, and a record of the emotional response of the user when interacting with the robot.

Foot-Terrain Interaction for a Prototype Silicon Micro-Robot

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeong Hoon Ryou ◽  
Kenn Oldham
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Model ◽  
Experimental Testing ◽  
Contact Forces ◽  
Experimental Comparison ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Simulation Studies ◽  
Static Charge ◽  
Micro Robot ◽  
Robot Evaluation ◽  
Robot Leg

Research on dynamics of micro devices indicates that contact forces are complex in a micro-scale environment. Previous work tried to identify how small-scale forces numerically affect a walking micro system, using a similar structure to a micro-robot leg and a simple analytical model for system dynamics. This paper extends that work by focusing on further experimental testing and simulation studies on a prototype micro-robot. Evaluation of experimental data indicates that characteristics of the ground, such as material properties and static charge on the surface should be also considered in understanding foot-terrain interaction. This leads to modifications to the former foot-terrain interaction algorithm. The refined analytical model is validated through experimental comparison.

An interval 2-tuple linguistic MCDM method for robot evaluation and selection

2013 ◽  
Vol 52 (10) ◽  
pp. 2867-2880 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hu-Chen Liu ◽  
Ming-Lun Ren ◽  
Jing Wu ◽  
Qing-Lian Lin
Keyword(s):  
Robot Evaluation ◽  
Mcdm Method

scholarly journals Robot Evaluation and Selection with Entropy-Based Combination Weighting and Cloud TODIM Approach

Entropy ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing-Jing Wang ◽  
Zhong-Hua Miao ◽  
Feng-Bao Cui ◽  
Hu-Chen Liu
Keyword(s):  
Robot Evaluation

Integrating Linear Physical Programming and Fuzzy Logic for Robot Selection

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehmet Ali Ilgın
Keyword(s):  
Fuzzy Logic ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Evaluation Criteria ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Multi Criteria Decision Making ◽  
Physical Programming ◽  
Linear Physical Programming ◽  
Robot Evaluation ◽  
Selection Methodology ◽  
Robot Selection

An increasing number of companies are using robots to perform a variety of repetitive and hazourdous tasks. Existence of many different robot alternatives force companies to consider several conflicting criteria before determining the most suitable robot alternative. Researchers have developed various multi-criteria decision making based methodologies in order to assist the decision makers in robot selection process. However, those methodologies require decision makers to assign physically meaningless weights to evaluation criteria. This article eliminates this weight assignment process by proposing a robot selection methodology based on linear physical programming. In addition, fuzzy logic was integrated into the proposed approach in order to determine the preference values of subjective robot evaluation criteria. A numerical example is also provided in order to present the applicability of the proposed methodology.

Sensor Systems for Robot Evaluation

1993 ◽  
pp. 112-147
Author(s):  
Hendrik Van Brussel ◽  
Francky Demeester ◽  
Johan Van den Bossche ◽  
Paul Vanherck
Keyword(s):  
Sensor Systems ◽  
Robot Evaluation
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