2003 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Multimodal Attention System for an Interactive Robot
Authors : Oscar Déniz, Modesto Castrillón, Javier Lorenzo, Mario Hernández, Juan Méndez
Published in: Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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Social robots are receiving much interest in the robotics community. The most important goal for such robots lies in their interaction capabilities. An attention system is crucial, both as a filter to center the robot’s perceptual resources and as a mean of letting the observer know that the robot has intentionality. In this paper a simple but flexible and functional attentional model is described. The model, which has been implemented in an interactive robot currently under development, fuses both visual and auditive information extracted from the robot’s environment, and can incorporate knowledge-based influences on attention.