Expressive Telepresence Robot

For the minor project in seventh semester, I and my two classmates built an expressive tele-presence robot. Our project was motivated by the inability of the tele-presence robots, available in the market, to express non-verbal cues of communication. The non-verbal communication forms two-third part of all communication. Initially we planned to track the face orientation of the user through OpenCV, to control the face and neck of the robot. We could not get that to work. So to submit the project on time, we have used accelerometers to control the face,neck and shoulder movement of the robot.