Imitation behaviour evaluation in human robot interaction

To recognize being imitated by others as well as to imitate others is a crucial milestone in child development. Our Goal: To investigate whether a robot can recognize being imitated by a human by detecting correlation between the visual and the motor data Comparative Experiment Experimental setup (Infanoid, the robot used in the experiment, has been developed in NICT, Japan [Kozima and Yano, 2001].) Calculating correlation between the visual and the motor data detected when: (a) Robot: randomly move both arms Human: randomly move both arms while holding coloured objects (b) Robot: same as in (a) Human: imitate robot’s movement while holding coloured objects (c) Robot: randomly move both arms while holding coloured objects Human: none (The objects were used to detect the R’s / the H’s hands.) Visual Data • (x1, y1), (x2, y2): positions of objects in camera image • (x′1,