This paper reviews “socially interactive robots”: robots for which social human–robot
interaction is important. We begin by discussing the context for socially interactive robots …

Sound source localization (SSL) in a robotic platform has been essential in the overall
scheme of robot audition. It allows a robot to locate a sound source by sound alone. It has an …

The objective of this paper is to present a systematic review of existing sensor-based control
methodologies for applications that involve direct interaction between humans and robots, in …

During the last decade, cell phones with multimodal interfaces based on combined new
media have become the dominant computer interface worldwide. Multimodal interfaces …

Being able to locate the origin of a sound is important for our capability to interact with the
environment. Humans can locate a sound source in both the horizontal and vertical plane …

This paper presents a hybrid approach for tracking humans with a mobile robot that
integrates face and leg detection results extracted from image and laser range data …

While most research has focused on one-on-one interactions, Socially Interactive Agents
(SIAs) for multiparty interaction have received increasingly more atten tion in the past years …

One of the key features of the human auditory system is its nearly constant omnidirectional
sensitivity, eg, the system reacts to alerting signals coming from a direction away from the …

We have assessed robust tracking of humans based on intelligent Sound Source
Localization (SSL) for a robot in a real environment. SSL is fundamental for robot audition …

This paper describes a system that gives a mobile robot the ability to perform automatic
speech recognition with simultaneous speakers. A microphone array is used along with a …