Social Robots

Open-source personal assistant robot · B.Sc. thesis, Amirkabir University of Technology · ICRoM 2022

An open-source architecture for a low-cost personal assistant robot. The robot recognizes facial expressions in real time, responds with gestures, and processes spoken commands — designed so the whole stack runs on affordable hardware and can be reproduced by other labs.

The robot responding to facial expressions and voice commands.

System architecture of the Social Robots framework — System architecture: perception, decision, and actuation layers.

Built with M. B. Menhaj and H. Taheri. The paper describes the architecture, the emotion-recognition pipeline, and the interaction design.

Paper (IEEE, ICRoM 2022) · Code