Two-layer fuzzy kernel regression for human emotional intention understanding

A two-layer fuzzy kernel regression (TLFKR) model is proposed for understanding human emotional intention in human-robot interaction, where TLFKR model consists of two layers, including fuzzy c-means (FCM) with kernel ridge regression (Kernel 1) for information analysis layer, fuzzy support vector regressions (FSVR) (Kernel 2) for intention understanding layer. TLFKR model represents the weight impact for each emotional information and aims to improve smooth human-robot interaction by endowing robot with human emotional intention understanding capability. Experimental Results show that the proposal obtains an intention understanding accuracy of 65.67%/68.33%/80.67% with the clusters number c=2/3/6 (according to different genders/ages/nationalities), which are 7.34%/7.18%/8.67% and 18.67%/21.33%/33.67% higher than that of TLFSVR and SVR, respectively. Additionally, preliminary application experiments are performed in the developing emotional social robot system, where two mobile robots and volunteers experience a scenario of 'drinking at a bar', and social robots are able to express basic emotions and understand human order intention.