The Interactive Control Software System Design For A Domestic Partner Robot

With the improvement of the living standards of people and the rapid development of the robotics technology, the domestic intelligent robots become more and more popular. Interactive control software system is the soul of a intelligent robot, he domestic robots would become more intelligent and practical if there are some excellent control softwares. So it is very necessary and significant for the research of interactive control software systems.The paper develops an interactive control software system for a kind of domestic partner robot in VS( Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 ), it can control the robot to move, to keep away from the barriers automatically, to dialog and to play multimedias in the form of voice control, graphical interfaces control and network control. Besides, the system set up a dynamic model, then the robot can carry out the visual programming function which enable the robot reform and edit every function by any need of the users on the basis of the operation to the model, therefore, the robot has flexibility and automy to some degree.First, the system designs every control interface and correspongding response messages with Flash, uses the message response function to accomplish the control to every interface, and then spares the interfaces for each function. After establishing the interface framework of the system, the paper develops the functions for the voice recognition, the voice process and the voice composition module by exploiting IBM ViaVoice SDK in VS. Second, the system constructs a class for the robot to play music. Third, the paper designs video playing module and the picturing module with Flash. In the end, every function is achieved by the calling in the interfaces spared.The network control function in the system is achieved by three steps: first, designing the control web page by Dreamweaver; second, adding the video server activex with the web communication function into the web page; third, by using the fuctions provided by the the active, sending the messages to RS-485 receiver embedded in the video server and linking it to the epigyny computer( Malata tablet PC-version T1) by the convertor USB-to-RS-485. Finally, the epigyny computer communicates with the hypogyny computer( AVR ATMEGA128 singlechip and web video sever ) by serial activex so that finishing the interface and remote monitoring to movement and other functions of the robot.In the experiment, link the epigyny computer to the hypogyny computer through the USB-to-serial cable at first. By the installation of the software system released by VS in the epigyny computer, the robot achieves all the anticipative functions after the verification through entering the system by the icon it generates.