An improved human sensory subsystem function emulator

摘要

The author has developed a modular, object oriented, open-systems, multiprocessor robot control network. Biologically inspired design principles have produced an android management system which emulates human physiology and psychology. PC- compatible IEEE P996.1 bus cards form the foundation of its computer hardware. The command software and cognitive functions are realized via a byte-coded IEEE 1275-based machine- independent high-level scripting language. Data files provide the android knowledge base, personality and experience history. The motor system has a head and torso control interface, a dexterous right hand, some facial gesturing and speech synthesis. The sensory system includes biological modalities (temperature, pressure, humidity, speech recognition, vision) and non-biological (magnetic, radio, infrared, ultrasound and satellite GPS). The author improved these systems by adding several IEEE 1451.4 features (a multi-drop addressable master-slave serial network, various configurations for reading sensors and controlling actuators, and transducer electronic data sheets) for enhanced system startup and transducer interoperability. IEEE 1451.4 is a logical addition to IEEE 1275 for robotic applications.