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A Humanoid Head for Assistance Robots

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Climbing and Walking Robots

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For the development of a humanoid robot able to assist humans in their daily life, adequate interaction is a key feature. If one considers that in human communication more than 60% is non verbal (communication with facial expressions and gestures) an important research topic is how should a robot head look like and what skills must such a head have to be able to interact with humans. In the following first the simulation system is introduce which was used to test mimic and the expression of emotion. Based on this simulatiuon results the mechatronical head of the University of Kaiserslautern is designed. Finaly a real-time capable method for image based face detection is presented, which is a basic ability needed for interaction with humans.

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  1. Robotics Research Lab, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany

    K. Berns & T. Braun

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  1. Department of Automatic Control and, System Engineering, University Sheffield, Mappin Street, S1 3JD, Sheffield, UK

    M. O. Tokhi

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University Leeds, LS2 9JT, Leeds, UK

    G. S. Virk

  3. Department of Computing, University of Bradford, Richmond Road, BD7 1DP, Bradford, UK

    M. A. Hossain

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Berns, K., Braun, T. (2006). A Humanoid Head for Assistance Robots. In: Tokhi, M.O., Virk, G.S., Hossain, M.A. (eds) Climbing and Walking Robots. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-26415-9_117

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