Embodied speech and facial expression avatar
Advisors: Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna, Steve Ortiz
Project Description:
The objective of this project is to develop a robotic face puppet
capable of articulating facial expressions and visual speech. For
this purpose, you will reverse engineer a commercially available toy
(e.g., Furby, Yano bears), develop interface circuits for the motors,
and a graphical user interface that allows you to control the puppet,
and articulate various facial expressions (e.g., smiles, frowns, lip
motion, etc)
Educational Objectives:
- Robotics systems, reverse engineering, sensor/actuator interfacing
- Human computer interaction: multimodal interfaces
- System integration: low-level hardware control, graphical user interface
Deliverables:
- Computer-controlled robotic head
- Graphical user interface with parameterized control of facial expressions
- Project documentation and live demonstration, as described in the course syllabus