Design and implementation of a social robot-based companion animal care service

Abstract

Social robots are getting closer to life. Global companies such as Sony, Softbank, or Asus are launching various kinds of social robots and the market is getting bigger and bigger. Accordingly, we investigate the state-of-the-arts of companion animals and IT fields that include social robots toward companion animals-related market. Inspired by these trends, this paper designs and implements a companion animal care service that can be provided by a new service mean, social robot. First, the rule-based expert system is used to create objects, values, and rules to recommend food for companion animals. Second, the corresponding modularization is performed to mount on social robots. Third, a behavior service module is created and operated for communicating with the user. We experiment the proposed social robot-based companion animal care service using Java-based First-Order-Logic (FOL) reasoning system and Jibo SDK. It verifies the effectiveness through interaction with real social robot users. © BEIESP.