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Leonardo Parra Melati
Departamento de Engenharia de Controle e Automação Instituto de Ciência e Tecnologia – UNESP, Sorocaba, SP
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Lucas Heije M. Miura
Departamento de Engenharia de Controle e Automação Instituto de Ciência e Tecnologia – UNESP, Sorocaba, SP
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Carlos José Steninger
Departamento de Engenharia de Controle e Automação Instituto de Ciência e Tecnologia – UNESP, Sorocaba, SP
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Renato Mendes Teixeira
Departamento de Engenharia de Controle e Automação Instituto de Ciência e Tecnologia – UNESP, Sorocaba, SP
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Marilza Antunes de Lemos
Departamento de Engenharia de Controle e Automação Instituto de Ciência e Tecnologia – UNESP, Sorocaba, SP
Keywords:
Service Robot, Human-Robot Interaction, Robotic Perception, Computational Vision, ImageAI, Raspberry Pi
Abstract
The success of research in the field of Artificial Intelligence has expanded the application possibilities of Service Robots. Among them, Social Robotics, which includes applications for the elderly, people with disabilities and other areas useful to society. A study indicated that the elderly dependency ratio in Europe would double from 28.4% in 2010 to 58.5% in 2060. Availability of smart home systems at reasonable costs for people with disabilities, may still depend on their adoption by the non-disabled population. This work presents the development of a low-cost Human-Robot Interaction system, based on Raspberry Pi. The system was initially tested with a simple interaction protocol for a small social robot under construction, obtaining good results in terms of object detection accuracy. Dialog processing speed can be improved and at the end of this study some ways to achieve this goal were identified.
