Inteligencia artificial aplicada a robot asistencial para la interacción con niños en edad temprana.

Abstract

This work involves the application Degree of Artificial Intelligence to a medical robot for interacting with children at an early age at the Polytechnic School of Chimborazo, Faculty of Informatics and Electronics, Electronics Engineering in Control and Industrial Networking. Through research, the user will have a penguin shaped robot that interacts with the child in the typical game of seek and kick the ball. The inductive method was used to obtain general ideas in programming from particular premises and the experimental method to test development and correction of errors in the operation of the robot. The prototype consists of a minicomputer Raspberry Pi on which programming is performed by using libraries of Open Source software that control: tracking the ball through the OMNI-VISION camera gear motors that allow the movement of the robot, sensory devices that detect the presence of the child and obstacles, the speakers that emit randomly prerecorded messages. Thresholding Algorithm, by which the robot seeks out and follows the ball during the game was implemented. The robot interacted with ten children 1 to 5 years old, 80% of them showed more interest in the game for 25 minutes, thus encouraging their intellectual and psychomotor development; while 20% of them were shy in the interaction with the robot with a playing time of 5 minutes. The penguin shaped prototype incorporates the basic elements of a machine vision system, thus achieving a friendly looking robot with children. It is recommended to students of the School of Electronic Engineering to take the results of this research to deepen knowledge in the broad field of Artificial Intelligence.