Mechanical Design of Christine, the Social Robot for the Service Industry

摘要

Based on the strong understanding of a natural human-robot interaction, this paper presents a social robot named Christine with a human-like exterior which is developed to work in the service sector. Although many social robots have been developed and excelled in control systems, several humanoid robot have either fallen into the uncanny valley or not been accepted by the public yet. The mechanical design of Christine has a great improvement in aesthetics without compromising its functionality. There are 7 degrees of freedoms (DOFs) through the head of Christine for representing 3 head gestures and 5 facial emotions and the social intelligence is implemented based on vision and audio subsystems. The hardware architecture of Christine, which includes processor, vision, and motion system will also be presented systematically.