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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.

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.

Starting SIC on your laptop

To enable communication between all your devices, we have to start Redis on some device. Start it on your laptop in the root framework sic folder (for MacOS: make sure Docker Desktop is running).

cd your/path/to/sic
docker compose up redis

This should start print Container sic-redis-1 Created which means Redis is up and running.

Starting SIC on the Robot

In a new terminal, start the framework on the robot using 

cd sic/sic_framework/scripts/
sh ./start_robot.sh -h ROBOT_IP -n ROBOT_DEVICE_ID -b REDIS_IP

Where:

  • ROBOT_IP is the adress of the Nao or Pepper robot

  • ROBOT_DEVICE_ID can be any name as it is the device_id with which the robot will identify itself in the framework.

  • REDIS_IP Your laptop IP address (use ipconfig on windows or hostname -I on linux or ipconfig getifaddr en0 on mac)

Example command:

sh ./start_robot.sh -h 192.168.0.116 -n nao1 -b 192.168.0.181

This should show an output like 

nao@nao:~/sic/sic_framework/devices$ python nao.py --robot_name nao1
Starting service manager with device id "nao1" with services:
 - NaoqiMicrophone
 - TopNaoCamera
 - BottomNaoCamera
Starting service manager with device id "nao1" with services:
 - NaoMotionReplayAction
 - NaoMotionRecorderAction
 - NaoMotionAction
 - NaoMotionStreamConsumer
 - NaoqiTextToSpeechAction
 - NaoMotionStreamProducer
 - NaoqiTabletService

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.

from sic_framework import SICApplication
from sic_framework.devices.common_naoqi.naoqi_speakers import NaoqiTextToSpeechAction, NaoqiTextToSpeechRequest


class DemoTextToSpeech(SICApplication):
    def run(self):
        nao3_action = self.connect(NaoqiTextToSpeechAction, device_id='nao1')
        nao3_action.request(NaoqiTextToSpeechRequest("Hello world!"))


if __name__ == '__main__':
    test_app = DemoTextToSpeech()
    test_app.run()

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