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

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Social Robotics (ICSR 2016)

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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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Acknowledgement

This work is supported by Defence Innovative Research Programme (DIRP), the Ministry of Defence, Singapore under grant R-263-000-B08-592 and the A*STAR Industrial Robotics Program of Singapore under grant R-261-506-007-305.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117575, Singapore

    Yi Mei Foong

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117583, Singapore

    Xiaomei Liu, Shuzhi Sam Ge & Jie Guo

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Indiana, USA

    Arvin Agah

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

    John-John Cabibihan

  3. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA

    Ayanna M. Howard

  4. Department of Systems Engineering and Automation, University Carlos III de Madrid, madrid, Spain

    Miguel A. Salichs

  5. Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA

    Hongsheng He

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Foong, Y.M., Liu, X., Ge, S.S., Guo, J. (2016). Mechanical Design of Christine, the Social Robot for the Service Industry. In: Agah, A., Cabibihan, JJ., Howard, A., Salichs, M., He, H. (eds) Social Robotics. ICSR 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9979. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47437-3_80

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