Projects/2010–2011
Android Telepresence Robot Hardware
Interactive Robots and Media Lab (IRML)
Challenge, contribution, and outcome
CHALLENGE
Maintain and improve the compact servo, wiring, and control systems of an android telepresence research platform.
MY CONTRIBUTION
Maintained and upgraded servo actuation, wiring, and control hardware for the android platform, contributing to the HRI 2011 workshop paper.
OUTCOME
Supported continued use of the android platform in human–robot interaction research and co-authored work on affordable telepresence.
Project overview
Hands-on electromechanical development and maintenance of IRML’s android telepresence platform. I worked on the servo actuation, wiring, and control hardware responsible for facial expressions and head movement, helping keep the platform available for human–robot interaction experiments.
System Record
- Application
- APPHuman-Robot Interaction
- Outcomes
- OUTCOMEPeer-Reviewed Publication
- Period
- 2010–2011
Development & Validation
- Maintained and upgraded the dense servo actuation and wiring loom driving the android's facial expressions and head movement.
- Bench-level rebuild work spanning skin, servo, and controller maintenance kept the platform running for HRI research.
- Contributed to 'Steps towards affordable android telepresence', presented at the HRI 2011 workshop.
Credits & Collaborators
Nikolaos Giakoumidis
Interactive Robots and Media Lab (IRML)
Co-author
Nikolaos Mavridis
Interactive Robots and Media Lab (IRML)
Principal Investigator · Lead author
Alexandros Tsamakos
IRML
Co-author
Interactive Robots and Media Lab (IRML)
Host laboratory
Publications & media
- Steps towards affordable android telepresence
Publication
2011
Source · HRI 2011 Workshop
- IbnSina emotions
Video
Additional Media
ANDROID HEAD — ACTUATION & WIRING — Interactive Robots and Media Lab (IRML) · 2010–2011
Rear of the android robot head opened for service, revealing the servo actuation and wiring loom