Design and development of Nancy, a social robot

Author

Ge, S.S. ; Cabibihan, J.J. ; Zhang, Z. ; Li, Yuhua ; Meng, C. ; He, H. ; Safizadeh, M.R. ; Li, Y. ; Yang, J.

Author_Institution

Social Robot. Lab., Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

fYear

2011

fDate

23-26 Nov. 2011

Firstpage

568

Lastpage

573

Abstract

In this paper, we present the design of a social robot, Nancy, which is developed as a platform for engaging social interaction. Targeting for a social, safe, interactive and user-friendly robot mate, the design philosophy of Nancy is presented with mechanical, electrical, artificial skin and software specifications. In particular, there are 32 degrees of freedom (DOFs) through the whole body of Nancy, and the social intelligence is implemented based on vision, audio and control subsystems.

Keywords

artificial intelligence; human-robot interaction; humanoid robots; Nancy; artificial skin specification; audio subsystem; control subsystem; design philosophy; electrical specification; mechanical specification; social intelligence; social interaction; social robot; software specification; user-friendly robot mate; vision subsystem; Cameras; DC motors; Humans; Joints; Robots; Skin; Visualization; Social robot; human-robot interaction; mechanical design;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence (URAI), 2011 8th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Incheon

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0722-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/URAI.2011.6145884

Filename

6145884