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Cynthia Breazeal.
Toscano, Robert Lopez
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
2009-08-26T16:41:45Z
2009-08-26T16:41:45Z
2008
2008
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/46522
406567827
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2008.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 73-74).
This thesis presents the design of a software platform for the Huggable project. The Huggable is a new kind of robotic companion being developed at the MIT Media Lab for health care, education, entertainment and social communication applications. This work focuses on the social communication application as it pertains to using a semi-autonomous robotic avatar in a remote environment. The software platform consists of an extensible and robust distributed software system that connects a remote human puppeteer to the Huggable robot via internet. The paper discusses design decisions made in building the software platform and describes the technologies created for the social communication application. An informal trial of the system reveals how the system's puppeteering interface can be improved, and pinpoints where performance enhancements are needed for this particular application.
by Robert Lopez Toscano.
M.Eng.
74 p.
eng
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Building a semi-autonomous sociable robot platform for robust interpersonal telecommunication
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