%0 Book Section %B Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems (Proc. Second International Conference, Living Machines 2013) %D 2013 %T Preliminary Implementation of Context-Aware Attention System for Humanoid Robots %A A. Zaraki %A D. Mazzei %A Lazzeri, N. %A M. Pieroni %A D. De Rossi %K Bioengineering %X

A context-aware attention system is fundamental for regulating the robot behaviour in a social interaction since it enables social robots to actively select the right environmental stimuli at the right time during a multiparty social interaction. This contribution presents a modular context-aware attention system which drives the robot gaze. It is composed by two modules: the scene analyzer module manages incoming data flow and provides a human-like understanding of the information coming from the surrounding environment; the attention module allows the robot to select the most important target in the perceived scene on the base of a computational model. After describing the motivation, we report the proposed system and the preliminary test.

%B Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems (Proc. Second International Conference, Living Machines 2013) %I Springer-Verlag %V 8064 %P 457-459 %G eng %R 10.1007/978-3-642-39802-5_65