Rosario Sorbello

Rosario Sorbello
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University of Palermo | UNIPA · Dipartimento di Ingegneria (DI)

PhD in Robotics and Computer Science

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Introduction
Rosario Sorbello, he is a Professor of Humanoid Robotics at the University of Palermo. Laurea and Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1998 and 2001. During 2000 He was visiting phd at Georgia Tech Mobile RobotLab of Prof. Ronald Arkin. From 2008 he collaborate with Prof. Hiroshi Ishiguro, Osaka University, in the field of innovative humanoid robot. His main research: social long-term human-humanoid interaction, emotional cognitive brain architecture for Geminoid and Telenoid, Trust.
Additional affiliations
March 2000 - November 2000
Georgia Institute of Technology
Position
  • PhD Student
Description
  • Visiting phd student at Georgia Tech Mobile RobotLab of Prof. Ronald Arkin in the field of multi mobile robot coordination developing a framework named "Metaphor of Italian Politics".
Education
February 1999 - January 2002
University of Palermo
Field of study
  • Computer Science (Robotics)
September 1994 - July 1998
University of Palermo
Field of study
  • Computer Science

Publications

Publications (69)
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In Human-Humanoid Interaction (HHI), empathy is the crucial key in order to overcome the current limitations of social robots. In facts, a principal defining characteristic of human social behaviour is empathy. The present paper presents a robotic architecture for an android robot as a basis for natural empathic human-android interaction. We start...
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Locked-in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) patients are fully dependent on caregivers for any daily need. At this stage, basic communication and environmental control may not be possible even with commonly used augmentative and alternative communication devices. Brain Computer Interface (BCI) technology allows users to modulate brain activity fo...
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We have been developing a MKR (Muratec Keio Robot), an autonomous omni-directional mobile transfer robot system for hospital applications. This robot has a wagon truck to transfer luggage, important specimens and other materials. This study proposes a safe obstacle collision avoidance technique that includes a human detection algorithm for omni dir...
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Hybrid Multi-Agent Architectures support mobile robots colonies moving in dynamic, unpredictable and time varying environments to achieve collective team-oriented behaviors for solving complicate and difficult tasks. The development of a new coalition formation and coordination framework for robot colonies in dangerous, unknown and dynamic environm...
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Trust is a fundamental aspect of human social interaction. With the advancement of technologies, such as brain-computer interface (BCI) systems and humanoids, arises the need for investigating human-humanoid interaction (HHI). A model to interpret BCI data in correlation to cognitive components of trust during this HHI is proposed. This will be pre...
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The manuscript titled "Perspective Chapter: A model for measuring trust using BCI in human-humanoid interaction" will appear in the Open Access book, "New Insights in Brain-Computer Interface Systems" edited by Dr. Nasser Kashou (ISBN 978-1-83769-052-7) Editor: IntechOpen
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As technological innovations continue to shape our social interactions, the Metaverse introduces im-mersive experiences that reflect real-life practices, accessible by users through their avatars. However, these interactions also bring forth potential negative aspects, including discrimination and cyberbullying. While current automatic detection sy...
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In this paper, authors present a novel architecture for controlling an industrial robot via Brain Computer Interface. The robot used is a Series 2000 KR 210-2. The robotic arm was fitted with DI drawing devices that clamp, hold and manipulate various artistic media like brushes, pencils, pens. User selected a high-level task, for instance a shape o...
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This paper presents a model of trust for biological and artificial humanoid robots and agents as antecedent condition of interaction. We discuss the cognitive engines of social perception that accounts for the units on which agents operate and the rules they follow when they bestow trust and assess trustworthiness. We propose that this structural i...
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In the last twenty years, robotics have been applied in many heterogeneous contexts. Among them, the use of humanoid robots during musical concerts have been proposed and investigated by many authors. In this paper, we propose a contribution in the area of robotics application in music, consisting of a system for conveying audience emotions during...
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The increasing interest in Brain Computer Interface (BCI) requires new fast, reliable and scalable frameworks that can be used by researchers to develop BCI based high performance applications in efficient and fast ways. In this paper is presented “UnipaBCI”, a general software framework for BCI applications based on electroencephalography (EEG) th...
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Video on demand https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/tv/medicalfrontiers/3004473/ Project Title: Telenoid with Autistic Children Project Leader: Prof. Rosario Sorbello - RoboticsLab - University of Palermo Group Member: Dr. Salvatore Tramonte, Prof. Antonio Chella, Dr. Antonia Ayala, Dr. Massimiliano Ardizzone where: NHK World TV Produced f...
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This paper presents the conceptual framework for a study of musical experience and the associated architecture centred on Human-Humanoid Interaction (HHI). On the grounds of the theoretical and experimental literature on the biological foundation of music, the grammar of music perception and the perception and feeling of emotions in music hearing,...
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This paper outlines an augmented robotic architecture to study the conditions of successful Human-Humanoid Interaction (HHI). The architecture is designed as a testable model generator for interaction centred on the ability to emit, display and detect honest signals. First we overview the biological theory in which the concept of honest signals has...
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This paper presents an Assistive social robots architecture designed for social interaction with humans,mediated by a humanoid robot. The architecture has been designed for being used by people with severe paralysis and the architecture has been tested by a user affected by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in a locked-in state. The system allows...
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(Under Submission ) The UniPA BCI Framework is an Augmented Brain-Computer Interface framework based on the P300 paradigm that makes use of the acquired brain signals to extract biometric features, such as: attention, stress, and mental workload, along with the visual focus. The improvement over a classical BCI system is based on the analysis of th...
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This paper illustrates a new architecture for a human-humanoid interaction based on EEG-Brain Computer Interface (EEG-BCI) for patients affected by locked-in syndrome caused by Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). The proposed architecture is able to recognise users’ mental state accordingly to the biofeedback factor Bf , based on users’ Attention,...
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In the last twenty years, robotics have been applied in many heterogeneous contexts. Among them, the use of humanoid robots during musical concerts have been proposed and investigated by many authors. In this paper, we propose a contribution in the area of robotics application in music, consisting of a system for conveying audience emotions during...
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The increasing interest in Brain Computer Interface (BCI) requires a fast, reliable and scalable framework to enable researchers to develop new BCI based applications. In this paper, it is presented UnipaBCI, a general software framework for BCI based on electroencephalography (EEG). It has been designed to be a general-purpose modular architecture...
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This paper outlines an architecture to study the conditions of successful human-robot interaction centred on honest signalling. We present the meaning of this concept in biology and its implications for the interdisciplinary research into social interactions. After proposing a refinement through the concept of co-presence we specify the modules of...
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Locked-in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) patients are fully dependent on caregivers for any daily need. At this stage, basic communication and environmental control may not be possible even with commonly used augmentative and alternative communication devices. Brain Computer Interface (BCI) technology allows users to modulate brain activity fo...
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L'obiettivo del progetto L'Innovazione per il Turismo Inclusivo consiste nell'impiego di robot umanoidi per facilitare l'accesso e la fruizione di siti di interesse artistico e culturale della città di Palermo a persone con gravi disabilità fisica e mentale.
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Questo libro costituisce un’eccellente introduzione ai fondamenti e ai metodi della progettazione e della sperimentazione di robot autonomi mobili. La trattazione presenta in modo chiaro e rigoroso i temi centrali di questo complesso campo di ricerca: l’apprendimento e l’addestramento del robot; la navigazione autonoma in ambienti non modificati, s...
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Architetture Ibride Multi-agente permettono di support- are colonie di robot che si muovono in ambienti dinamici, non prevedibili e tempo invarianti per ottenere strategie d i risoluzione distribuite che sviluppano comportamenti ori - entati al collettivo dei robot per risolvere compiti difficili e complicati come il monitoraggio e la sorveglianza...
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The present paper aims to validate our research on humanhumanoid interaction (HHI) using the minimalistic humanoid robot Telenoid. We have conducted human-robot interactions test with 100 young people with no prior interaction experience with this robot. Themain goal is the analysis of the two social dimension (perception and believability) useful...
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In this paper we illustrate a humanoid robot able to interact socially and naturally with a human by expressing human-like body emotions. The emotional architecture of this robot is based on an emotional conceptual space generated using the paradigm of Latent Semantic Analysis. The robot generates its overall affective behavior (Latent Semantic Beh...
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The challenge of creating a real-life computational equivalent of the human mind requires that we better understand at a computational level how natural intelligent systems develop their cognitive and learning functions. In recent years, biologically inspired cognitive architectures have emerged as a powerful new approach toward gaining this kind o...
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One of the main features of social robots is the ability to communicate and interact with people as partners in a natural way. However, achieving a good verbal interaction is a hard task due to the errors on speech recognition systems, and due to the understanting the natural language itself. This paper tries to overcome such kind of problems by pr...
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The creation of intelligent robots has been a major goal of Artificial Intelligence since the early days and has provided many motivations to Artificial Intelligence researchers. Therefore, a large body of research has been done in this field and many relevant results have shown that integration of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics techniques is...
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Individuality is one of the most important qualities of humans. Social robots should be able to model the individuality of the human partners and to modify their behaviours accordingly.This paper proposes a profiling system for social robots to be able to learn the individuality of human partners in social contexts. Profiles are expressed in terms...
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The present paper aims at a descriptive analysis of the main perceptual and social features of natural conditions of agent interaction, which can be specified by agent in human- humanoid robot interaction. A principled approach to human- robot interaction may be assumed to comply with the natural conditions of agents overt perceptual and social beh...
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Building robots that closely resemble humans allow us to study phenom- ena in our daily human-to-human natural interactions that cannot be studied using mechanical-looking robots. This is supported by the fact that human-like devices can more easily elicit the same kind of responses that people use in their natural interactions. However, several st...
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In this paper is illustrated the cognitive architecture of a humanoid robot based on the proposed paradigm of Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA). This paradigm is a step towards the simulation of an emotional behavior of a robot interacting with humans. The LSA approach allows the creation and the use of a data driven high-dimensional conceptual space....
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Several studies supported that there is a strict and complex relationship between outer appearance and the behavior showed by the robot and that a human-like appearance is not enough for give a positive impression. The robot should behave closely to humans, and should have a sense of perception that enables it to communicate with humans. Our past e...
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In this paper, a multimodal system for recognizing people in intelligent environments is presented. Users are identified and tracked by detecting and recognizing voices and faces through cameras and microphones spread around the environment. This multimodal approach has been chosen to develop a flexible and cheap though reliable system, implemented...
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In this paper we illustrate a new version of the cognitive architecture of an emotional humanoid robot based on the proposed paradigm of Latent Semantic Behaviour (LSB). This paradigm is a step towards the simulation of an emotional behavior of a robot interacting with humans. The New Architecture uses a different procedure of induction of the emot...
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In this paper will be presented an heterogeneous colony of robots capable to cooperate with people as effective partners to provide different kind of support among various working environments, such as museums, offices or trade fairs. Many systems have been integrated in order to develop robots capable to assists humans during the visit of the site...
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In this paper we illustrate the cognitive architecture of a humanoid robot based on the proposed paradigm of Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA). The LSA approach allows the creation and the use of a data driven high-dimensional conceptual space. This paradigm is a step towards the simulation of an emotional behavior of a robot interacting with humans....
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In this paper we propose an emotional humanoid robot based on Latent Semantic Analysis, that exhibits an emotional behaviour in the interaction with human. Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) paradigm is capable to encode the semantic of words using a statistical computation of a large corpus of text. We illustrate how the creation and the use of this e...
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Brain computer interface is a system that offers also a support to the patients with neuromuscular diseases as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.In this paper are presented some works with the aim to integrate brain computer interfaces and mobile robots.The two aim of this project are: (i) to test an improved BCI experience through the help of a physic...
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In this paper we propose an Entertainment Humanoid Robot model based on Latent Semantic Analysis, that tries to exhibit an emotional behavior in the interaction with human. Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA), based on vector space allows the coding of the words semantics by specific statistical computations applied to a large corpus of text. We illustr...
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This paper describes our experience in the simulation of humanoid soccer robots using two general purposes 3D simulators, namely USARSim and Microsoft Robotics Studio. We address the problem of the simulation of a soccer match among two teams of small humanoid robots in the RoboCup Soccer Kid-Size Humanoid competitions. The paper reports the implem...
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In this paper we present an "emotional storyteller robot": a robot that is capable to tell story in an attractive way using the appropriate affective intonation concerning the piece of story that it's telling. Our approach is inspired by Taghard's theory about the human ability to find emotional analogies between the situation described in a piece...
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Questo libro costituisce un’eccellente introduzione ai fondamenti e ai metodi della progettazione e della sperimentazione di robot autonomi mobili. La trattazione presenta in modo chiaro e rigoroso i temi centrali di questo complesso campo di ricerca: l’apprendimento e l’addestramento del robot; la navigazione autonoma in ambienti non modificati, s...
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This paper describes an implementation of dInfoBots robot architecture, a multi-agent platform which has been developed by Robolab of University of Palermo. Two features distinguish the dInfoBots architecture from other well known system created with similar aims: The first the flexible structure, thanks to a modular organization, allows to adapt t...
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In this paper we propose EMPHYBOT an Entertainment Pet Robot, based on Latent Semantic Analysis, that tries to exhibit non deterministic and non trivial behaviors in interaction with human. Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) is an approach that tries to encode the semantics of the words by statistical computations applied to a large corpus of texts. Th...
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The variation version of the economic metaphor of Italian politics, an architecture that loosely takes inspiration from the political organizations of democratic governments, following the example of Italian government, and which provides a solution for the coordination of a spare colony of robots, is competent to allow the coordination of the beha...
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In this paper, we modified E-MIP architecture [10][3][4][5][6], an architecture that we developed taking inspiration from the political organizations of democratic governments, and which provides a solution for the coordination of a robot colonies in dangerous environments, to allow a team of robots to play soccer. The development of an evolution o...
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The variation version of the Economic Metaphor of Italian Politics [3] [4] [5] [6] [10], an architecture that loosely takes inspiration from the political organizations of democratic governments, following the example of italian government , and which provides a solution for the coordination of a spare colony of robots, is competent to allow the co...
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When mobile robots colonies move in dynamic, not predictable and time variable environments, the problem now is on how can they achieve distributed solving strategies for solving complicate and difficult tasks. The development of a new robotic architecture for the coordination of robot colonies in dangerous and dynamic environments is outlined. The...
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Hybrid Multi-Agent Architectures allow the sup-port of mobile robots colonies moving in dynamic, not predictable and time variable environments in order to achieve distributed solving strategies that develop collective team-oriented behaviors for solv-ing complicate and difficult tasks; MIP architec-ture (Chella et al., 2002), taking inspiration fr...
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Il presente capitolo si propone di illustrare alcune tematiche di ricerca che caratterizzano l’interazione uomo-robot attraverso la rete Internet mediante la descrizione di applicazioni innovative sviluppate presso il Laboratorio di Robotica del Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica dell'Università di Palermo e dell'ICAR-CNR, Sezione di Palermo. I...
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The E-MIP (Economic Mataphor of Italian Politics), an Hybrid Multi-Agent Architecture based on economic theories, supports a colony of mobile robots moving in dynamic, unpredictable and time varying environments to achieve collective team-oriented behaviors for solving complicate and difficult tasks. In this paper the development of a new adaptive...
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Hybrid Multi-Agent Architectures allow the support of mobile robots colonies moving in dynamic, not predictable and time variable environments in order to achieve distributed solving strategies that develop collective team-oriented behaviors for solving complicate and difficult tasks. The development of a new robotic architecture for the coordinati...
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Does Hybrid Multi-Agent Architecture allow the support of mobile robots colonies moving in dynamic, not predictable and time-variable environments in order to achieve distributed solving strategies that develop collective team-oriented behaviours for solving complicate and difficult tasks? The development of a new robotic architecture for the coord...