Nutty-based Robot Animation--Principles and Practices

T Ribeiro, A Paiva - arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.02898, 2019 - arxiv.org
Robot animation is a new form of character animation that extends the traditional process by
allowing the animated motion to become more interactive and adaptable during interaction …

The practice of animation in robotics

T Ribeiro, A Paiva - Modelling Human Motion: From Human Perception to …, 2020 - Springer
Robot animation is a new form of character animation that extends the traditional process by
allowing the animated motion to become more interactive and adaptable during interaction …

Creating Interactive Robotic Characters: Through a combination of artificial intelligence and professional animation

TG Ribeiro, A Paiva - Proceedings of the Tenth Annual ACM/IEEE …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
We are integrating artificial intelligent agents with generic animation systems in order to
provide socially interactive robots with expressive behavior defined by animation artists …

[PDF][PDF] Make way for the robot animators! bringing professional animators and AI programmers together in the quest for the illusion of life in robotic characters

T Ribeiro, A Paiva - 2014 AAAI Fall Symposium Series, 2014 - cdn.aaai.org
We are looking at new ways of building algorithms for synthesizing and rendering animation
in social robots that can keep them as interactive as necessary, while still following on …

Animating mechanisms: A pipeline for authoring robot gestures

B Megidish, O Zuckerman, G Hoffman - … of the Companion of the 2017 …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Designing and authoring gestures for socially expressive robots has been an increasingly
important problem in recent years. In this demo we present a new pipeline that enables …

Nutty tracks: symbolic animation pipeline for expressive robotics

T Ribeiro, A Paiva, D Dooley - ACM SIGGRAPH 2013 Posters, 2013 - dl.acm.org
NuttyTracks is a symbolic real-time animation system for animating any robotic character
using animation tools commonly used by professional animators. Our system brings artists …

Workshop on Enabling Rich, Expressive Robot Animation

E Jochum, D Nuñez - Proceedings of the Tenth Annual ACM/IEEE …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
HRI researchers and practitioners often need to generate complex, rich, expressive
movement from machines to facilitate effective interaction. Techniques often include live …

Integrating animation artists into the animation design of social robots an open-source robot animation software

E Balit, D Vaufreydaz, P Reignier - 2016 11th ACM/IEEE …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Movements are an important part of robot design and we need dedicated tools to design
them. As previous research has shown, 3D animation techniques are of great use to animate …

Learning-based interactive character animation

L Victor - 2023 - theses.hal.science
Animated characters are a crucial component of compelling and lively virtual worlds. Their
motion is influenced by complex behaviors, and the production of expressive character …

Programming Robot Animation Through Human Body Movement

HA Frijns, D Stoeva, O Schürer… - 2024 IEEE International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The aim of our work is to make it easier for non-programmers to program robot motion. We
designed a system that translates human motion to motion of a (virtual and physical) …