SIC
SIC is a framework for quickly getting started with social robotics by making it simple to combine complex devices such as Nao’s and powerful services such as Google Dialogflow.
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Installing SIC on your device
Installing SIC on your robot
Starting Redis and SIC on your device
Starting SIC on your robot
Start your SICApplication to control the robot
Installation
You can find the instructions on how to install the framework here: Install
Setup
Once installed to all devices you want to use, we can start the framework.
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Start redis
Start the device services on the robot
(Optional) Start a service, such as face detection
Run your program
Starting Redis and SIC on your laptop
To enable communication between all your devices, we have to start Redis on some device.
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In a terminal, start redis using
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redis-server |
Docker alternative
Start it on your laptop in the root framework framework folder (for MacOS and Windows: make sure Docker Desktop is running).
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cd framework/sic_framework/services/text2speech python3 text2speech_service.py |
Starting SIC on the Robot (NAOv6)
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This script sets environment variables and start the framework on the robot. However, running scripts on windows is not very simple. If you cannot execute the scripts by calling them from a powershell terminal, open them using a text editor and copy the commands into the terminal manually. Remember to adjust variables such as IP addresses |
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You can also log in to the robot and start the device services in a terminal.
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Running a demo
To start a demo, for example to show pepper’s camera output on your screen, simply execute a python script with a SICApplication. Some demos are available in the docker/sic/sic_framework/tests folder.
Terminal
To start the camera demo from the terminal, use the following commands.
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If all went well, a display should pop up showing you the camera output of your robot!
API
The goal of SIC is to provide easy to use high level access to devices and services. To make a NAO robot say something, follow the startup instruction in https://socialrobotics.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CBSR/pages/2180415493/Install#Starting-SIC-on-the-Robot and run the following python script on your laptop.
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