정보통신기술의 발달과 함께 학습자에게 재미와 흥미를 통한 즐거운 교육환경을 제공하고자 다양한 방법이 시도 되고 있다. 에듀테인먼트와 게임기반학습 등에서 게임이나 로봇과 같은 기술을 교육에 활용하는 것은 좋은 예이다. 본 연구에서는 휴머노이드 로봇의 율동 생성을 위한 사용자 데이터 수집과 분석을 통한 지능형 율동 교육 시스템을 제안한다. 이를 위하여 사용자는 음악을 선택하고, 선택한 음악에 따라 율동 정보를 입력한다. 이러한 사용자의 로봇 활용 데이터는 분석을 통하여 지능화된 서비스를 위한 패턴의 역할을 한다. 분석 결과는 빈도에 기반을 두며, 과거 정보가 부족한 경우 FFT 유사도 비교 방법을 적용하였다. 제안하는 방법은 유치원 아이들을 대상으로 하는 실험을 통하여 유효함을 확인하였다.

This paper presents an edutainment robot for young children. The edutainment robot called ‘Mon-e’ has developed by the Central R&D Laboratory at KT. The main services of the Mon-E robot are autonomous moving service, object card and story book telling service and videophone service. The RFID technology was introduced for easy interface to young children. The face of Mon-E robot is mounted with an RFID reader. The RFID tag is pasted on story book and object card. If you approach a book or an object card to the face of Mon-E, the Mon-E robot recognizes the identified code and plays its service. In autonomous moving, if the Mon-E robot meets obstacles, it moves back and turns left or right or half rotation. In videophone service, if young children approach an RFID card to the Mon-E, the Mon-E can make a call to the specific number, which is contained in the RFID card. The developed Mon-E robot has tested in real world environment and is evaluated young children and their parents. In the result of evaluation, the feeling of satisfaction was high to main services of Mon-E robot.

This paper presents the system design and implementation of ‘Mon-e’, the KT’s edutainment robot for young children. We paid our special attention to the computer- illiterate young children, and the provision of the physical and friendly human interface of robots. Specifically, the paper focuses on the video telephony and home monitoring service using the Mon-e robot. RFID cards –based calling makes it possible for the computer-illiterate children to make a phone call to their parents. The SIP and DTMF based remote control of the robot enables the search and track of the children. This experimental development shows the potentialities and values of the convergence service of telecommunication and robotics

This paper presents the sound-based emotion estimation method and the growing HRI (human-robot interaction) system for a Mon-E robot. The method of emotion estimation uses the musical element based on the law of harmony and counterpoint. The emotion is estimated from sound using the information of musical elements which include chord, tempo, volume, harmonic and compass. In this paper, the estimated emotions display the standard 12 emotions including Eckman’s 6 emotions (anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, surprise) and the opposite 6 emotions (calmness, love, confidence, unhappiness, gladness, comfortableness) of those. The growing HRI system analyzes sensing information, estimated emotion and service log in an edutainment robot. So, it commands the behavior of the robot. The growing HRI system consists of the emotion client and the emotion server. The emotion client estimates the emotion from sound. This client not only transmits the estimated emotion and sensing information to the emotion server but also delivers response coming from the emotion server to the main program of the robot. The emotion server not only updates the rule table of HRI using information transmitted from the emotion client and but also transmits the response of the HRI to the emotion client. The proposed system was applied to a Mon-E robot and can supply friendly HRI service to users.