Development of an Autonomous Quadruped Robot for Robot Entertainment

  • Authors:
  • Masahiro Fujita;Hiroaki Kitano

  • Affiliations:
  • D21 Laboratory, Sony Corporation. E-mail: mfujita@pdp.crl.sony.co.jp;Sony Computer Science Laboratory Inc. E-mail: kitano@csl.sony.co.jp

  • Venue:
  • Autonomous Robots - Special issue on autonomous agents
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

In this paper, we present Robot Entertainment asa new field of the entertainment industry using autonomous robots. Forfeasibility studies of Robot Entertainment, we have developed an autonomousquadruped robot, named MUTANT, as a pet-type robot. Ithas four legs, each of which has three degree-of-freedom, and a head whichalso has three degree-of-freedom. Micro camera, stereo microphone, touchsensors, and other sensor systems are coupled with newly developed behaviorgeneration system, which has emotion module as its major components, andgenerates high complex and interactive behaviors. Agent architecture,real-world recognition technologies, software component technology, andsome dedicated devices such as Micro Camera Unit, were developed and testedfor this purpose. From the lessons learned from the development of MUTANT, we refined the design concept of MUTANT to derive requirements for ageneral architecture and a set of interfaces of robot systems forentertainment applications. Through these feasibility studies, we considerentertainment applications a significant target at this moment from bothscientific and engineering points of view.