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Proposer

Christian Dondrup

Title

Developing a gesture library for a humanoid robot

Goal

To create a set of different gestures using the arms and the head of a humanoid robot so that they can be used during interaction

Description

Humanoid robots are often used for human-robot interaction. As part of the National Robotarium which is currently being built at the Heriot-Watt campus, we purchased several ARI robots [1]. These robots shall be used for human-robot interaction in a vast amount of demos and experiments but in order to do so more effectively, they would require a certain repertoire of gestures. These gestures are arm and head motions that combined would create beat, deictic, iconic or metaphoric gestures that can be played back while the robot is talking to a human. Your task would be to develop these gestures using the simulator and the real robot. This would be followed by an evaluation of those gestures with humans to make sure that they are understood correctly and look natural. [1] https://pal-robotics.com/robots/ari/

Resources

Background

Python, Robotics, ROS (optional)

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Difficulty Level

High

Ethical Approval

Full

Number Of Students

2

Supervisor

Christian Dondrup

Keywords

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