Author: Barretto, M. R. P. Presentation for the Biomedical & Mechatronics Workshop Forum UTokyo USP, 2013

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Minerva:
a companion robot
Marcos Ribeiro Pereira-Barretto

2. Companion Robots
• Must be helpful
– Remember its owner of his/her pills
– Answer to questions
• Must be active (not passive)
• Must entertain
• Must understand context
– Understand what is going on (sentient)
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3. Emotions on voice
Kozaka, 2010
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4. Emotions with sensor fusion
• Fusion of acoustic, face and semantics
Cueva, 2011
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5. Face recognition
Cassales,2013
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6. Dialog manager
Alfenas,2010
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7. Other works
• Prosodic voice synthesis (reis,2009)
• Emotion detection on faces
(Gonçalves,2010)
• Lips detection (Negreiros,2011)
• Representation of Semantic (Beato,2011)
• Dialog manager (Borba,2012)
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8. Agent-driven architecture
Pereira-Barretto,2013
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