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2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Mechanical Design of Christine, the Social Robot for the Service Industry

Authors : Yi Mei Foong, Xiaomei Liu, Shuzhi Sam Ge, Jie Guo

Published in: Social Robotics

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Based on the strong understanding of a natural human-robot interaction, this paper presents a social robot named Christine with a human-like exterior which is developed to work in the service sector. Although many social robots have been developed and excelled in control systems, several humanoid robot have either fallen into the uncanny valley or not been accepted by the public yet. The mechanical design of Christine has a great improvement in aesthetics without compromising its functionality. There are 7 degrees of freedoms (DOFs) through the head of Christine for representing 3 head gestures and 5 facial emotions and the social intelligence is implemented based on vision and audio subsystems. The hardware architecture of Christine, which includes processor, vision, and motion system will also be presented systematically.

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Metadata
Title
Mechanical Design of Christine, the Social Robot for the Service Industry
Authors
Yi Mei Foong
Xiaomei Liu
Shuzhi Sam Ge
Jie Guo
Copyright Year
2016
Book
Social Robotics

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-47436-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-47437-3

Copyright Year: 2016

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47437-3_80

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