PEAR: Prototyping Expressive Animated Robots - A Framework for Social Robot Prototyping

Etienne Balit, Dominique Vaufreydaz, Patrick Reignier

2018

Abstract

Social robots are transitioning from lab experiments to commercial products, creating new needs for prototyping and design tools. In this paper, we present a framework to facilitate the prototyping of expressive animated robots. For this, we start by reviewing the design of existing social robots in order to define a set of basic components of social robots. We then show how to extend an existing 3D animation software to enable the animation of these components. By composing those basic components, robots of various morphologies can be prototyped and animated. We show the capabilities of the presented framework through 2 case studies.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Balit E., Vaufreydaz D. and Reignier P. (2018). PEAR: Prototyping Expressive Animated Robots - A Framework for Social Robot Prototyping. In Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2018) - Volume 3: HUCAPP; ISBN 978-989-758-288-2, SciTePress, pages 44-54. DOI: 10.5220/0006622600440054

in Bibtex Style

@conference{hucapp18,
author={Etienne Balit and Dominique Vaufreydaz and Patrick Reignier},
title={PEAR: Prototyping Expressive Animated Robots - A Framework for Social Robot Prototyping},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2018) - Volume 3: HUCAPP},
year={2018},
pages={44-54},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006622600440054},
isbn={978-989-758-288-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2018) - Volume 3: HUCAPP
TI - PEAR: Prototyping Expressive Animated Robots - A Framework for Social Robot Prototyping
SN - 978-989-758-288-2
AU - Balit E.
AU - Vaufreydaz D.
AU - Reignier P.
PY - 2018
SP - 44
EP - 54
DO - 10.5220/0006622600440054
PB - SciTePress