publications

2020

1. IJASST

   Hardware architecture and implementation of an AI pet robot.

   Elton Lemos, Abhishek Ghoshal, Aditya Aspat

   International Journal of Applied Sciences and Smart Technologies 2.2 (2020): 111-136

   2021

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   The concept of AI companionship is gaining popularity in recent times. Ourproject is an attempt to create a robotic companion that can act just like apet. We created a Pet Robot that can perform various functions like recognisepeople, recognise objects, recognise emotions, play games, follow a personaround, listen to voice commands, dance and so on. This paper focuses on thehardware aspect of the robot and the working of the Core program (Kernel). Itfurther discusses the algorithm that was implemented in this architecture andcompares the final version with other variations. Our work was able to createa fully functioning AI pet robot by using just cheap commercially availabledevelopment boards, motors and a Desktop PC.

2021

1. IJASST

   OpenCV Image Processing for AI Pet Robot

   Abhishek Manajit Ghoshal, Aditya Aspat, Elton Lemos

   International Journal of Applied Sciences and Smart Technologies 3 (1), 65-82

   2021

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   The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Pet Robot is a culmination of multiple fields of computer science. This paper showcases the capabilities of our robot. Most of the functionalities stem from image processing made available through OpenCV. The functions of the robot discussed in this paper are face tracking, emotion recognition and a colour-based follow routine. Face tracking allows the robot to keep the face of the user constantly in the frame to allow capturing of facial data. Using this data, emotion recognition achieved an accuracy of 66% on the FER-2013 dataset. The colour-based follow routine enables the robot to follow the user as they walk based on the presence of a specific colour.

   IJASST

   Stone, Paper, Scissors Mini-Game for AI Pet Robot

   Aditya Aspat, Abhishek Manajit Ghoshal, Elton Lemos

   International Journal of Applied Sciences and Smart Technologies 3 (1), 65-82

   2021

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   The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Pet Robot is a combination of various fields of computer science. This paper showcases the various functionalities of our AI Pet. Most of the functionalities showcased use the immage processing modules made available through OpenCV. The pet robot has various features such as emotion recognition, follow routine, mini-game etc. This paper discusses the mini-game aspect of the robot. The game has been developed by using VGG16 convolutional network for identification of the action performed by the user. To improve the accuracy we have made use of background subtraction which gives removes all the unwanted objects from the background and gives a simple cutout of the users hand.