Integration of an emotion recognition model to NAO humanoid

Abstract

This paper shows the importance of robotics and consequently of the NAO robot in education and how emotion recognition can make human-robot interaction easily and natural. The goal is to integrate a mechanism of emotion recognition in speech within NAO robot. The proposed model is composed by four steps, sequentially integrated. The experiment was performed with 84 audio samples recorded by four people, between men and women. Data shows that after integration NAO robot is capable of identifying the emotion felt by the human during the interaction.