A survey on behavior control architectures for social robots in healthcare interventions

Hoang-Long Cao, Pablo Gomez Esteban, Albert De Beir, Ramona Simut Vanderborght, Greet Van De Perre, Dirk Lefeber, Bram Vanderborght

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Abstract

The use of Robot-Assisted Therapy (RAT) in health-care interventions has increasingly received research attention. However, a lot of RAT studies are conducted under Wizard of Oz (WoZ) techniques in which the robots are teleoperated or preprogrammed. The trend of RAT is moving towards (partially) autonomous control in which the robot behavior control architecture plays a significant role in creating effective human-robot interaction by engaging and motivating human users into the therapeutic processes. This paper describes the state of the art of the autonomous behavior control architectures currently developed for social robots in health-care interventions, considering both clinical and exploratory studies. We also present certain requirements that an architecture used in RAT study should acquire, which provide roboticists and therapists an inspiration to orient their designs and implementations on the basis of their targeted RAT applications.
Original languageEnglish
Article number1750021
Pages (from-to)1-24
Number of pages24
JournalInternational Journal of Humanoid Robotics
Volume14
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2017

Keywords

  • Social robot
  • behavior control architecture
  • healthcare
  • robot-assisted therapy

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