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Abstract | ||
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A robot's head is important both for directional sensors and, in human-directed robotics, as the single most visible interaction interface. However, designing a robot's head faces contradicting requirements when integrating powerful sensing with social expression. Furher, reactions of the general public show that current head designs often cause negative user reactions and distract from the functional capabilities. Therefore, this contribution presents a novel anthropomorphic robot head called "Flobi", which combines state-of-the-art sensing functionality with an exterior that elicits a sympathetic emotional response. It can display primary and secondary emotions in a human-like way, to enable intuitive human-robot-interaction. To facilitate further research on facial appearance, the exterior is fully modular and replaceable. While current state-of-the-art still requires trade-offs when integrating sensing and social expression, Flobi has been designed to enable service robotic applications, with high-resolution, wide-angle stereo vision, gyroscope motion compensation and stereo audio. For ease of integration, the head is self-contained, including 18 actuators, sensors and control boards, all in a human-head sized package. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2010 | 10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509173 | Robotics and Automation |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
human-robot interaction,humanoid robots,motion compensation,sensors,service robots,stereo image processing,visual perception,Bielefeld anthropomorphic robot head,Flobi,directional sensor,functional capability,gyroscope motion compensation,human directed robotics,human-head sized package,intuitive human robot interaction,robot head faces,service robotic application,stereo audio,sympathetic emotional response,visible interaction interface,wide angle stereo vision | Social robot,Computer vision,Stereophonic sound,Motion compensation,Artificial intelligence,Engineering,Robot,Robotics,Visual perception,Human–robot interaction,Humanoid robot | Conference |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
2010 | 1 | 1050-4729 E-ISBN : 978-1-4244-5040-4 |
ISBN | Citations | PageRank |
978-1-4244-5040-4 | 37 | 2.36 |
References | Authors | |
5 | 4 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lutkebohle, I. | 1 | 37 | 2.36 |
| Hegel, F. | 2 | 44 | 3.00 |
| Simon Schulz | 3 | 40 | 4.01 |
| Hackel, M. | 4 | 37 | 2.36 |