Experiment on the empathic reaction of an animatronic structure determined by a voice command

Abstract

This paper presents an experiment on the affective reaction of a modified biomimical structure Chimpanzee Alive at a series of comands or vocal dialogues. The experimental structure includes and a biomimetic structures Scary Terry Talking Skull which has the possibility, through own development board, to send voice commands to the biomimetic structure Chimpanzee Alive. These voice commands are taken by using a the smartphone with android operating system and which has Arduino BlueControl applications installed. After processing of the voice commands by Arduino BlueControl, the smartphone send control signals by bluettooth, to biomimetic structures controller. This commands the motors of the biomimetic structure (for the movement of the eyebrows, mouth and eyelids), the result being the following expressive states: euphoric, pensiveness, annoyance. After obtain the expressive states, the Chimpanzee Alive structure returns into neutral state by activate a gestures sensor.