Title :
Development of an android for singing with facial expression
Author :
Ahn, Ho Seok ; Lee, Dong-Wook ; Choi, Dongwoon ; Lee, Duk Yeon ; Hur, Man Hong ; Lee, Hogil ; Shon, Woong Hee
Author_Institution :
Korea Inst. of Ind. Technol., Incheon, South Korea
Abstract :
This paper presents the hardware mechanism and software architecture of a singer robot system called EveR-2. EveR-2 is an android robot platform has human-like appearance and shows its emotion with facial expression and gestures. The skin of the head, arms, hands and legs is made of silicon jelly to give human-like texture. EveR-2 has sixty-two degrees of freedom in the head, neck, arms, hands, torso, and legs. It sings a song by reading a music score with lip synchronization. EveR-2 is the first android that made her debut and a music video.
Keywords :
control engineering computing; face recognition; image texture; mobile robots; robot vision; software architecture; EveR-2; android robot platform; arms; degrees of freedom; facial expression; facial gestures; hands; hardware mechanism; head; human-like appearance; human-like texture; legs; lip synchronization; music score; music video; neck; silicon jelly; singer robot system; software architecture; torso; Androids; Face; Humanoid robots; Humans; Skin; Synchronization;
Conference_Titel :
IECON 2011 - 37th Annual Conference on IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
Conference_Location :
Melbourne, VIC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-969-0
DOI :
10.1109/IECON.2011.6119296
