Emotional head robot with behavior decision model and face recognition

There has been a lot of research for developing intelligent robots that can effectively perform human robot interaction. Our motivation for this research is to develop a robot that can interact with people and assist them in their daily routines, in common places such as homes, super markets, hospitals or offices. In order to accomplish these tasks a robot must be human friendly showing some emotions and exhibiting a friendly character and personality. We present an emotional and behavior based intelligent head robot that performs face recognition, and effectively communicates with people by expressing emotions using a 3D character on its screen. The behavior of the robot depends on its interaction with people. Face recognition capability of our robot is a novel classification method based on Support Vector Domain Description (SVDD). This method allows the system to be trained rapidly and improve the recognition rate gradually by learning face incrementally. For the emotional behavior of the system we implement an emotional behavior decision model that defines the character of our robot and makes different behavior decisions.