Animation engine for believable interactive user-interface robots Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:2898508, abstract = {The iCat is an interactive and believable user-interface robot that performs the role of a "family companion" in home environments. To build this robot, we developed an animation engine that makes it possible to combine multiple interactive robot behaviors with believable robot animations. In order to do this, we build three special software components: 1) animation channels to control the execution of multiple robot behaviors and animations; 2) merging logic to combine individual device events; and 3) a transition filter for smooth blending. We illustrate the usage of the animation engine by describing an application of the iCat during which it speaks to a user while tracking the user's head, performing lip-syncing, doing eye-blinking and showing facial expressions.}, author = {van Breemen, A. J. N.}, booktitle = {Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2004. (IROS 2004). Proceedings. 2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on}, citeulike-article-id = {2898508}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2004.1389845}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1389845}, doi = {10.1109/IROS.2004.1389845}, journal = {Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2004. (IROS 2004). Proceedings. 2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on}, keywords = {believability}, pages = {2873--2878 vol.3}, posted-at = {2009-06-18 14:34:59}, priority = {2}, title = {Animation engine for believable interactive user-interface robots}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2004.1389845}, volume = {3}, year = {2004} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:2898508 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2898508 N2 - The iCat is an interactive and believable user-interface robot that performs the role of a "family companion" in home environments. To build this robot, we developed an animation engine that makes it possible to combine multiple interactive robot behaviors with believable robot animations. In order to do this, we build three special software components: 1) animation channels to control the execution of multiple robot behaviors and animations; 2) merging logic to combine individual device events; and 3) a transition filter for smooth blending. We illustrate the usage of the animation engine by describing an application of the iCat during which it speaks to a user while tracking the user's head, performing lip-syncing, doing eye-blinking and showing facial expressions. JF - Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2004. (IROS 2004). Proceedings. 2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on EP - 2878 vol.3 TI - Animation engine for believable interactive user-interface robots VL - 3 T2 - Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2004. (IROS 2004). Proceedings. 2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on SP - 2873 KW - believability AU - van Breemen, AJN PY - 2004/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2004.1389845 ER -