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Anthropomorphic robot avatars present a conceptually novel approach to remoteaffective communication, allowing people across the world a wider specter ofemotional and social exchanges over traditional 2D and 3D image data. However,there are several limitations of current telepresence robots, such as the highweight, complexity of the system that prevents its fast deployment, and thelimited workspace of the avatars mounted on either static or wheeled mobileplatforms.  In this paper, we present a novel concept of telecommunication through arobot avatar based on an anthropomorphic swarm of drones; SwarMan. Thedeveloped system consists of nine nanocopters controlled remotely by theoperator through a gesture recognition interface. SwarMan allows operators tocommunicate by directly following their motions and by recognizing one of theprerecorded emotional patterns, thus rendering the captured emotion asillumination on the drones. The LSTM MediaPipe network was trained on acollected dataset of 600 short videos with five emotional gestures. Theaccuracy of achieved emotion recognition was 97% on the test dataset.  As communication through the swarm avatar significantly changes the visualappearance of the operator, we investigated the ability of the users torecognize and respond to emotions performed by the swarm of drones. Theexperimental results revealed a high consistency between the users in ratingemotions. Additionally, users indicated low physical demand (2.25 on the Likertscale) and were satisfied with their performance (1.38 on the Likert scale)when communicating by the SwarMan interface.

SwarMan: Anthropomorphic Swarm of Drones Avatar with Body Tracking and Deep Learning-Based Gesture Recognition