Details
Status: Available
Type(s): Bachelor Thesis, Master Thesis, or Practicum
Participants: 1 Student
Keywords: Media Understanding, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Robotics
Task Description & Requirements
Build a mobile robot that recognizes its environment and interacts with humans, requiring the understanding and interpretation of their motives, thus developing a basic form of consciousness. The robot exists in a first version and is able to recognize the following settings (+interaction): (1) cheering crowds (stand still, look tangentially away from the crowd and slowly wave back), (2) one person kneeling in front of the bot (draw a miniature sword and knight that person). It is, hence, a jovially royal bot. Now, please extend the framework by additional features and more consciousness. For example, when recognizing groups of people in uniforms, the robot should stand erect, move slowly forward, hoist a small flag and play some sombre yet enchanting piece of music. Further requirements will be defined by the supervisor in the pre-course meeting. Please recognize that apart from the humorous requirements this is a serious topic with hard to achieve goals.
Update: Availability permitting, there is also the option to implement the features of the royal bot on Spot, our Boston Dynamics robot dog, thus further dignifying its conduct through computer vision and content-based audio analysis. In this case, the obsolete hardware requirements would be substituted by additional software features (e.g. hunting a plush fox until a bugle calls, if a servant puts a black cap on its top).