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In this work, a method for animating a mechatronic head with realistic appearance is presented. The required actuators have been defined upon the Facial Action Coding System (FACS). The generation of the six basic emotions is addressed: happiness, disgust, sadness, anger, fear and surprise. These expressions are generated by interpolating movements through a sequence of key poses. The voice is integrated in a similar way, using a viseme-based scheme that allows synchronizing voice, lips and mouth movements. Implementation details and results showing suitability of the approach are also given.
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David, L., Samuel, M.P., Eduardo, Z.C., García-Bermejo, J.G. (2014). Animation of Expressions in a Mechatronic Head. In: Armada, M., Sanfeliu, A., Ferre, M. (eds) ROBOT2013: First Iberian Robotics Conference. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 253. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03653-3_2
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