Proactive Interaction Framework for Intelligent Social Receptionist Robots

Yang Xue,Fan Wang,Hao Tian,Min Zhao,Jiangyong Li,Haiqing Pan,Yueqiang Dong,Yang Xue,Fan Wang,Hao Tian,Min Zhao,Jiangyong Li,Haiqing Pan,Yueqiang Dong

Proactive human-robot interaction (HRI) allows the receptionist robots to actively greet people and offer services based on vision, which has been found to improve acceptability and customer satisfaction. Existing approaches are either based on multi-stage decision processes or based on end-to-end decision models. However, the rule-based approaches require sedulous expert efforts and only handle m...