Librarian robot with sleep-wake function

本研究开发了一种具有睡眠和唤醒功能的图书管理员机器人。这个机器人配备了一个激光测距仪，用于预测图书馆用户的行为，一个麦克风，用于与他们交谈和立体视觉。这几个传感器的许多过程在该系统中并行运行，并由我们提出的数学激活输入调制（AIM）模型控制，该模型可以根据外部传感器的检测来表达意识状态，例如唤醒或睡眠。当图书馆用户靠近图书管理员机器人时，它在清醒状态下作为图书管理员工作。当没有用户时，虽然处于睡眠状态的机器人看起来像在睡觉，但它会处理在唤醒状态期间存储的信息。

This research has developed a librarian robot with sleep and wake functions. This robot is equipped with a laser range finder for predicting library users' behaviors, a microphone for conversation with them and a stereo vision. Lots of processes for these several sensors run in parallel in this system and are controlled by our proposed mathematical Activation-Input-Modulation (AIM) model, that can express consciousness states, such as wake or sleep based on detected by the external sensors. When library users are near the librarian robot, it works as a librarian in a waking state. When there is no user, although the robot in a sleep state looks like sleeping, it processes information stored during the wake state.