A wearable sensor vest for social humanoid robots with GPGPU, IoT, and modular software architecture

Currently, most social robots interact with their surroundings and humans through sensors that are integral parts of the robots, which limits usability sensors, human–robot interaction, interchangeability. A wearable sensor garment fits many is needed in applications. This article presents an affordable vest, open-source software architecture Internet Things (IoT) for humanoid robots. The vest consists touch, temperature, gesture, distance, vision a wireless communication module. IoT feature allows robot to locally over Internet. designed works any has general-purpose graphics processing unit (GPGPU), I2C/SPI buses, connection, Robotics Operating System (ROS). modular design this enables developers easily add/remove/update complex behaviors. proposed provides technology, GPGPU nodes, I2C SPI bus mangers, audio-visual interaction nodes (speech text, text speech, image understanding), isolation between behavior other nodes. solution related robot, RESTful web service, user interfaces. We used HTTP protocol as means two-way Developers can edit or add C, C++, Python programming languages. Our be designing more sophisticated behaviors