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In this paper, we present the mechatronic design of our Tactile Omnidirectional Robot Manipulator (TOMM), which is a dual arm wheeled humanoid robot with 6DoF on each arm, 4 omnidirectional wheels and 2 switchable end-effectors (1 DoF grippers and 12 DoF Hands). The main feature of TOMM is its arms and hands which are covered with robot skin. We exploit the multi-modal tactile information of our robot...
In this paper we present our new full-sized anthropometrically correct humanoid robot Herbert. Herbert has 18 DOF: 1) 14 active DOFs (2 × 1 DOFs in the knees, 2×3 in the hips, 3 in the waist and 3 in the head); 2) 4 passive DOFs (2 × 2 in the ankles). We follow a simple design approach while keeping the costs low but ensuring high-performance is achieved. We employed a modular design in realising...
The development of humanoid robots is a highly complex process. Consisting of numerous subsystems which need to be combined for actuation such as electric motors or hydraulic valves, as well as sophisticated sensors and sensing units like skin. In this paper, we introduce our strategy to simplify the development of these complex electrical systems by using modular components. We took a generalised...
This paper describes the development of “Mask-Bot 2i” (codenamed: Kabuto), a robotic head designed for research into Human-Robot-Interactions. The uniqueness of our new robotic head is that the appearance of its face can be alter on-the-fly. Different faces can be projected onto the active head system. The head is fully active with a 3-DOF neck, with support for biannual hearing as well as video camera...
In this paper, we propose a method to apply any new face to a retro-projected 3D face system, the Mask-bot, which we have developed as a human-robot interface. The robot face using facial animation projected onto a 3D face mask can be quickly replaced by a new face based on a single frontal image of any person. Our contribution is to apply an automatic face replacement technique with the modified...
This paper introduces Gertie the Robotic Desk Lamp, a novel research platform that has five degrees of freedom, and is equipped with a camera and microphone in its lamp shade. These features mean that Gertie is a flexible and low-cost resource for conducting research into cognitive products and human-robot interaction. It will be available as an open hardware on http://www.opengertie.org/.
A retro-projected face display system has great advantages in being able to present realistic 3D appearances to users and to easily switch the appearance of the humanoid robot heads animated on the display. Therefore, it is useful to evaluate how effectively users can perceive various information from such devices and what type of animation is suitable for human-robot interaction — in particular,...
This paper presents an overview of the new version of our multi-model communication face “Mask-Bot”, a rear-projected animated robotic head, including our display system, face animation, speech communication and sound localization.
In this paper, we introduce our life-size talking head robotic system, “Mask-bot”, developed as a platform to support and accelerate human-robot communication research. The “Mask-bot” hardware consists of a semi-transparent plain mask, a portable LED projector with a fish-eye conversion lens mounted behind the mask, a pan-tilt unit and a mounting base. The hardware is driven by a software animation...
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