Humanoid Robot Head Design Based on Uncanny Valley and FACS

Emotional robots are always the focus of artificial intelligence (AI), and intelligent control of robot facial expression is a hot research topic. This paper focuses on the design of humanoid robot head, which is divided into three steps to achieve. The first step is to solve the uncanny valley abou...

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Published in:Journal of robotics 2014-01, Vol.2014 (2014), p.1-5
Main Authors: Yan, Jizheng, Yan, Yan, Wang, Zhiliang
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Artificial intelligence
Behavioral sciences
Colleges & universities
Design
Design engineering
Emotions
Facial
Human
Human beings
Humanoid
Robot control
Robots
Students
Valleys
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Summary:Emotional robots are always the focus of artificial intelligence (AI), and intelligent control of robot facial expression is a hot research topic. This paper focuses on the design of humanoid robot head, which is divided into three steps to achieve. The first step is to solve the uncanny valley about humanoid robot, to find and avoid the relationship between human being and robot; the second step is to solve the association between human face and robot head; compared with human being and robots, we analyze the similarities and differences and explore the same basis and mechanisms between robot and human analyzing the Facial Action Coding System (FACS), which guides us to achieve humanoid expressions. On the basis of the previous two steps, the third step is to construct a robot head; through a series of experiments we test the robot head, which could show some humanoid expressions; through human-robot interaction, we find people are surprised by the robot head expression and feel happy.
ISSN:1687-9600
1687-9619
DOI:10.1155/2014/208924