A multilayer reactive system for robots interacting with children with autism
This work addresses the problem of limited autonomy in therapy robots for children with autism, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing supervised autonomous controllers.
The paper tackles the lack of autonomy in Robot-Assisted Therapy for children with autism by presenting a multilayer reactive system within a supervised autonomous robot controller, aiming to create the illusion of the robot being alive by appropriately reacting to the child's behavior.
There is a lack of autonomy on traditional Robot-Assisted Therapy systems interacting with children with autism. To overcome this limitation a supervised autonomous robot controller is being built. In this paper we present a multilayer reactive system within such controller. The goal of this Reactive system is to allow the robot to appropriately react to the child's behavior creating the illusion of being alive.