General Description
Objective
- To complete emotional agent for exhibition guide
Duration
- Feb 2007 – Sep 2007
Role in the project
- A member of the head robot team consisting of 3 members
- Controlled 3D animation character
Introduction to Head Robot
The emotional kiosk was based on the head robot which had already been developed in Perception and Intelligence Laboratory of Seoul National University. The robot was equipped with two web cameras, a touch screen LCD and motors controlling head movement. The appearance of the robot is shown below.
Front and Rear Appearance of Head Robot
The entire architecture of the robot is shown below.
Head Robot System Architecture
3D Character Control
My job in the team was controlling the 3D animation appearing in the LCD monitor. It was able to make two kinds of facial movement. One was moving lips, the other was making facial expression. The lip movement was created by combination of five preset vowel movement, and the facial expression was based on the five emotional elements; happiness, sadness, anger, surprise and disgust. The interfaces for creating such movements are presented below.
Head Robot Control Interface
The program was coded using MFC (Microsoft Foundation Class), and I fixed some problems the character had had when I assumed my part of the whole project.
Electronics Fair
Based on this head robot, we set up the main concept of the robot as “Emotional Kiosk for Exhibition” for the annual intramural electronics fair. You can see some pictures taken in the event in the “School Electronics Fair” page of the “Awards & Honors” section. We won the bronze prize in the competition with this robot.
