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In this paper we present an engagement system for the iCub robot that is able to arouse in human partners a sense of “co-presence” during human-robot interaction. This sensation is naturally triggered by simple reflexes of the robot, that speaks to the partners and gazes the current “active partner” (e.g. the talking partner) in interaction tasks. The active partner is perceived through a multimodal approach: a commercial rgb-d sensor is used to recognize the presence of humans in the environment, using both 3d information and sound source localization, while iCub’s cameras are used to perceive his face.
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Anzalone, S.M., Ivaldi, S., Sigaud, O., Chetouani, M. (2013). Multimodal People Engagement with iCub. In: Chella, A., Pirrone, R., Sorbello, R., Jóhannsdóttir, K. (eds) Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures 2012. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 196. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34274-5_16
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