Designing an affective robot pet companion
There is an increasing need to improve the ways humans and robots collaborate and interact. Social robots can be equipped with additional capabilities to perceive and respond to humans. They can also be granted emotional intelligence and be able to observe and interpret human emotions. Some ro...
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| author | Foo, Jing Ting |
| author2 | Smitha Kavallur Pisharath Gopi |
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| description | There is an increasing need to improve the ways humans and robots collaborate and interact.
Social robots can be equipped with additional capabilities to perceive and respond to humans.
They can also be granted emotional intelligence and be able to observe and interpret human
emotions. Some robots are designed to be human companions.
In this project, the design of a prototype quadruped robot for human companionship is explored.
The robot features include 8DOF movement, vision through an image sensor, and Wi-Fi
communication. The robot is capable of moving into different poses and detecting human
emotions from their facial expressions. The robot system consists of a quadruped robot and a
server on an external computer for performing face detection and emotion recognition.
The design process includes the sourcing for electronics and designing the circuitry, designing
the robot body in CAD and 3D printing it, writing sensor and actuation control codes and data
structures for defining the robot, and designing an architecture for the software. Software
testing is done to verify the correctness of the codes. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1631082022-11-24T00:15:27Z Designing an affective robot pet companion Foo, Jing Ting Smitha Kavallur Pisharath Gopi School of Computer Science and Engineering smitha@ntu.edu.sg Engineering::Computer science and engineering There is an increasing need to improve the ways humans and robots collaborate and interact. Social robots can be equipped with additional capabilities to perceive and respond to humans. They can also be granted emotional intelligence and be able to observe and interpret human emotions. Some robots are designed to be human companions. In this project, the design of a prototype quadruped robot for human companionship is explored. The robot features include 8DOF movement, vision through an image sensor, and Wi-Fi communication. The robot is capable of moving into different poses and detecting human emotions from their facial expressions. The robot system consists of a quadruped robot and a server on an external computer for performing face detection and emotion recognition. The design process includes the sourcing for electronics and designing the circuitry, designing the robot body in CAD and 3D printing it, writing sensor and actuation control codes and data structures for defining the robot, and designing an architecture for the software. Software testing is done to verify the correctness of the codes. Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Science) 2022-11-24T00:15:27Z 2022-11-24T00:15:27Z 2022 Final Year Project (FYP) Foo, J. T. (2022). Designing an affective robot pet companion. Final Year Project (FYP), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/163108 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/163108 en SCSE21-0478 application/pdf Nanyang Technological University |
| spellingShingle | Engineering::Computer science and engineering Foo, Jing Ting Designing an affective robot pet companion |
| title | Designing an affective robot pet companion |
| title_full | Designing an affective robot pet companion |
| title_fullStr | Designing an affective robot pet companion |
| title_full_unstemmed | Designing an affective robot pet companion |
| title_short | Designing an affective robot pet companion |
| title_sort | designing an affective robot pet companion |
| topic | Engineering::Computer science and engineering |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/163108 |
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