TY - GEN
T1 - 'Mask-Bot 2i'
T2 - 2012 12th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Humanoids 2012
AU - Pierce, Brennand
AU - Kuratate, Takaaki
AU - Vogl, Christian
AU - Cheng, Gordon
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was carried out during Dr. Ratkje's stay at the University of Rochester. The Royal Norwegian Council for Scientific and Industrial Research as well as Fulbright Council for International Exchange of Scholars are thanked for supporting her stay. The paper is based on work performed under contract with the U.S. Department of Energy at the University of Rochester, Department of Radiation Biology and Biophysics, and has been assigned report no. UR-3490-1668. The paper was also supported by grant IROI 18892 from the National Institutes of Health, Program project ES-10248 from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and a grant from Muscular Dystrophy Association of America.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - 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 for seeing. An interchangeable face is the main feature of this new Mask-Bot, the head can be equipped with an average face mask as well as a highly customised individualised face that can be easily exchanged. Additionally, the actuation of the head has been designed to match the natural head movements of an average human. Thus, enabling the head and face to be articulated synchronously to the speech production while the natural head movement matches that of the animated face. The design and realisation of this new system is presented in details in this paper.
AB - 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 for seeing. An interchangeable face is the main feature of this new Mask-Bot, the head can be equipped with an average face mask as well as a highly customised individualised face that can be easily exchanged. Additionally, the actuation of the head has been designed to match the natural head movements of an average human. Thus, enabling the head and face to be articulated synchronously to the speech production while the natural head movement matches that of the animated face. The design and realisation of this new system is presented in details in this paper.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84886803964&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/HUMANOIDS.2012.6651569
DO - 10.1109/HUMANOIDS.2012.6651569
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84886803964
SN - 9781467313698
T3 - IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots
SP - 520
EP - 525
BT - 2012 12th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Humanoids 2012
Y2 - 29 November 2012 through 1 December 2012
ER -