Gestures Imitation with a Mobile Robot in the Context of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) for Children with Autism

Amir Aly (1) , Adriana Tapus (2)

1 RV - Robotique et Vision
2 U2IS - Unité d'Informatique et d'Ingénierie des Systèmes

In human-robot interaction, gestures play an important role in transferring messages from the human to the robot and vice versa. The robot has to be able to properly understand the gestures in order to respond in an appropriate manner. This research work focuses on dynamic gestures' recognition using robot's cameras, which capture the performed gestures in a certain interactional scenario. The gestures are processed and classified to a pre-defined category of gestures. Our gesture recognition system is currently part of a robot behavior control architecture developed for children with autism.

Domaines: Robotique [cs.RO]

Amir Aly, Adriana Tapus. Gestures Imitation with a Mobile Robot in the Context of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) for Children with Autism. Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop for Young Researchers on Human-Friendly Robotics (HFR), Oct 2010, Tübingen, Germany. ⟨hal-01215275⟩