Design of an Autonomous Eating Pet Robot

  • Park, Ch.S. (Department of Electrical Engineering, Kyungpook University) ;
  • Choi, B.J. (Department of Electrical Engineering, Kyungpook University) ;
  • Park, S.H. (Department of Electrical Engineering, Kyungpook University) ;
  • Lee, Y.J. (School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Kyungpook University)
  • Published : 2003.10.22

Abstract

The trends of recent developed a pet robot which interacts with people are increased gradually. There are a few pet robots that are a robot dog, robot cat, and robot fish. The pet robot is featured that it is possible to sympathize and give pleasure to human. The pet robots express delight, sorrow, surprise, and hunger through the artificial intelligence. Previously, the pet robot has to exchange the battery when it is exhausted. Commercialized robots have a self-recharging function, which express hunger. Robot dog AIBO, SONY in Japan, checks the battery for expressing hunger. They find an energy station for recharge. While operation time of AIBO is 1 hour 30 minutes, recharging time is 2 hours. Recharging time is longer than operation time. During the recharge, they don't operate. We obtain a motivation for eating the battery when find the problem. In this paper, introduce an Autonomous Eating Pet Robot and propose a design for realization. The Autonomous Eating Pet Robot has a function that is the most basic instinct that is finding a food and evacuating.

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