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An expressional simplified mechanism in anthropomorphic face robot design

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2014

Chyi-Yeu Lin ,
Chun-Chia Huang  and
Li-Chieh Cheng
Chyi-Yeu Lin*
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, 10607Taiwan
Chun-Chia Huang
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, 10607Taiwan Email: D9603110@mail.ntust.edu.tw
Li-Chieh Cheng
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, 10607Taiwan Email: D9503101@mail.ntust.edu.tw
*
*Corresponding author. E-mail: jerrylin@mail.ntust.edu.tw
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Summary

The goal of this research is to develop a low-cost face robot which has a lower degree-of-freedom facial expression mechanism. Many designs of facial robots have been announced and published in the past. Face robots can be classified into two major types based on their respective degrees of freedom. The first type has various facial expressions with higher degrees of freedom, and the second has finite facial expressions with fewer degrees of freedom. Due to the high cost of the higher-degree-of-freedom face robot, most commercial face robot products are designed in the lower-degrees-of-freedom form with finite facial expressions. Therefore, a face robot with a simplified facial expression mechanism is proposed in this research. The main purpose of this research is to develop a device with a lower degree-of-freedom mechanism that is able to generate many facial expressions while keeping one basic mouth shape variation. Our research provides a new face robot example and development direction to reduce costs and conserve energy.

Keywords

Face robotFacial expressionFacial mechanismExpressional simplified mechanism
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Robotica , Volume 34 , Issue 3 , March 2016 , pp. 652 - 670
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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