A Study on The New Technological Concept of Robotic Cellular Phone (RCP)

Abstract

The robot technology (RT), along with the rapid growth of information technology (IT) is being developed as the next generation of a future technology. Current robots require advanced technology, such as soft computing, human-friendly interface, interaction technique, speech recognition, object recognition, etc., unlike the industrial robots of the past. Recently, cellular phone (CP) has been one of the most important technologies in the IT field, and it has occupied a preeminent position industrially and economically. To produce the best CP in the world, a new technological concept and its advanced implementation technique are required, due to severe competition in the world market. Therefore, this study develops a new technological concept, called the robotic cellular phone (RCP), in which a synergistic effect can be generated by merging RT and IT. RCP, i.e., CP having personal robot services, will be an intermediate hi-tech personal machine between one CP-a-person and one robot-a-person generations. RCP infra consists of RCPMobility, RCPInteraction, and RCP Integration technologies. For RCPMobility, human-friendly motion automation and personal service with walking and arming ability are developed. RCP Interaction is achieved by modeling an emotion-generating Integration which, in a miniature, integrates the robotic modules into CP, is developed with application service programs. By joining intelligent algorithms and CP communication network with the three base modules, an RCP system is constructed. This article presents the definition, basic theory and experimental results of the RCP subtechnologies. We confirm a good performance of the RCP through the experimental results.