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In this paper, the design and implementation of an expression robot with 10 degrees of freedom (DOF) is presented. The robot is capable to express some emotions to the human. A processer with an FPGA chip is utilized to control the robot. The robot has two eyebrows, two eyes, a mouth, and an audio and vision system, for the interactions with human. The robot is able to accomplish the movements of the different parts on its face to express the emotions. The paper also proposes a face detection system, which aids more natural human-robot interaction. The paper shows the use of FPGA in handling vision, face detection, and the expression of emotions.
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Wong, CC., Yang, YT., Cheng, HE., Tsai, MH. (2010). Face Detector Design for an Expression Robot. In: Vadakkepat, P., et al. Trends in Intelligent Robotics. FIRA 2010. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 103. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15810-0_40
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