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

fYear

2011

fDate

7-10 Nov. 2011

Firstpage

104

Lastpage

109

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

IECON 2011 - 37th Annual Conference on IEEE Industrial Electronics Society

Conference_Location

Melbourne, VIC

ISSN

1553-572X

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-969-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IECON.2011.6119296

Filename

6119296