Fully Responsive Image and Speech Detection Artificial Yankee (FRIDAY): Human Assistant

Abstract

A Human Assistant is one which aids any person in accomplishing a task in his routine without the person himself carrying it out solitarily. Given a Human Assistant the vision and the ability to communicate with humans through speech, it becomes more utilitarian and can be used in much more advanced tasks. The key idea of this paper is building a system by incorporating existing processing algorithms which are modified to provide a modeled humanoid with vision and Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) making it carry out function as a human assistant in general. In particular to the experiment carried out here, different processing algorithms are built onto a simple yet capable microprocessor and enabling the machine that this system is built onto to navigate in a confined terrain by detecting objects through camera, detect short texts through the camera and also carry out certain tasks in response to the HRI through speech. This paper also provides a possible solution to incorporate speech and image processing on a simple processor without overloading it using the concept of distributed processing.