Humanoid active audition system improved by the cover acoustics

  • Authors:
  • Kazuhiro Nakadai;Hiroshi G. Okuno;Hiroaki Kitano

  • Affiliations:
  • ERATO, Japan Science and Technology Corp., Tokyo, Japan;Department of Information Sciences, Science University of Tokyo;Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc.

  • Venue:
  • PRICAI'00 Proceedings of the 6th Pacific Rim international conference on Artificial intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Perception system for humeinoid should be active, e.g., by moving its body or controlling pcurameters of sensors such as cameras or microphones, to perceive environments better. This paper focuses on active audition, whose meiin problem is to suppress internal sounds made by humeinoid movements. Otherwise, such sounds would deteriorate the performance of auditory processing. Our 4-degree-of-freedom (DOF) humzinoid, called SIG , has a cover to enclose internal sounds from the outside. SIG has a pair of left cOid right microphones to collect internal sounds and another pciir to collect external sounds originating from the outside of SIG . A simple strategy of choosing a subblind of external sounds if sounds from internal microphones in the same subband is weeiker ihan those from external microphones sometimes fciils in internal sound cancellation due to resoncince within the cover. In this paper, we report the design of internal sound ccincellation system to enhcince external sounds. First, the acoustic cheiracteristic of the humeinoid cover is measured to make a model of each motor movement. Then, an adaptive filter is designed based on the model by taking movement commcinds into accounts. Experiments show that this Ccincellation system enhances external sounds cind SIG can track and localize sound sources during its movement.