Ethologically inspired human-robot interaction interfaces

Abstract

This paper presents human-robot interaction interfaces based on ethological studies. An ethological test procedure was modeled with the application of a fuzzy rule interpolation based fuzzy automaton. This fuzzy automaton was loaded with rules formed from the extracted ethological knowledge. Using the behaviours supplied by the fuzzy automaton as conclusions, different interfaces can be defined for the incarnation of the model. The ethological test procedure and its modeling technique based on the fuzzy automaton will be shortly introduced in the paper, and then the various human-robot interfaces based on the former will be presented. These include interfaces of simulated environments and also interfaces as real robot hardware with their supplemental devices (sensors, cameras, etc.).