Both static and passive emotions are complete!

Static Mode: Our robot uses short non-personal sayings and a 0 based board to play.  Events are announced, but not reacted to.

Passive Mode: Our board utilizes boxes 1-9, the robot reacts to the outcome of the game, uses personalized phrases, and simulates thinking.  We are currently writing a bit of strategy to make it play better: block if the opponent has two X's aligned and if the robot gets twp O's aligned to make the winning move.

Dynamic Model: still needs game-play commentary (workable from the strategy) and a few gestures to seem more human-like.

After this we will begin our IRB approved study!

Speech issue all fixed!  The logic was broke into separate modules while a global board get passed around during game-play.  This not only helped to separate our logic but also use the correct processes to kill the listening process.

While we are continuing work on our system we have also decided on a topic for our research.  We will be looking at how the enjoyability of a simple game is affected by the humanness of a robotic opponent in regards to emotion and personality.  

We will have three basic levels of emotion: static, passive, and active. Static emotion will be the generic robotic game-play with no emotion added. It will make moves instantly and will not make any additional comments. Passive emotion is the level where the robot passively engages the user. It accomplishes this through taking time to perform actions, and will react to the end result of the game. Active emotion will mimic human game-play attributes. The robot will make comments during active game-play that reflects the current situation. This is in addition to the passive emotion actions.

tts.say(“It’s Something”)

Here is a picture of the board output from our debug window:

Playing First Tic Tac Toe Game!

Unfortunately the video was compressed during the upload, and the text is not readable.

Speech recognition was harder to work with in python than anticipated! Our robot listens, but we cannot find the process to kill so it can stop listening.  As a result it believes its own audio is the human players input during their turn.  We solved this problem by muting the robot and having the dialog be displayed in a simulator in Choregraphe.

For the first iteration of our project we are working on playing verbal tic tac toe with our robot.  Our basic approach is to have the robot keep track of a 2D-Array which will function as the playing board.  The board will be referenced as boxes 0-8 and will initially be filled with all dashes.  When it is the user's turn, they specify the number box that they want and the robot will place an 'X' in it.  During the robot's turn it scans the board for dashes and places an 'O' when one is found.  If there are no dashes the robot analyzes the board to see who won.

Welcome to the Nao Robot Tic Tac Toe blogspot!

The purpose of this blog will be to follow our progress on creating a Tic Tac Toe program to run on a Nao humanoid robot made by Aldebaran.