Intelligent Agents and Only You?
Will be a ‘soft’ head — a gas mask on a small base. wounded human, past warrior, future warrior, android, gimp, alien
It will move to follow sounds and cock its head side to side
It may rock back and forth to any extended play of music, if more than 6 seconds detected
If you approach it and talk to it [near it], it would behave like an animal [living entity of moderate intelligence] who tries to listen and comprehend
Listens for loudest sound to direct its attention toward. If loudest and second loudest are close to one another <within X in direction> it may choose to average the direction for focusing its attention
- Movements: +/- 45 degrees around X axis from start; +45 degrees around Y axis from start; +/-60 degrees around Z axis from start
- Recommended corner location since it cannot turn its head all the way around
- Servos must be very quiet/silent/muffled — mask can make incidental noise.
- Photoresistor on top of head for ambient
- Hall Effect sensor for distance approach detection of an object/person, in nose
- Motion detector between eyes
- Mics in ears
Finite State Machine:
- asleep: head tilt down, could be slightly turned w/ probability
- occurs: lights out, no detections above threshhold for more than 60 minutes
- from bored
- bored/idle: very minor degree rotations so its natural state is not perfectly erect and forward — these minor rotations would be randomized each time.
- occurs: NOT asleep, no detections above threshhold for more than 6 minutes
- from focused, dance, convulsion
- perkup/chase: erect if approach/motion detection, rotate if audio
- occurs: detects audio, detects motion, detects light, detects object is close
- can happen from asleep, bored, dance
- moves back to bored after 6 minutes [focused has not been initiated]
- focused/attack: follows the loudest sound
- occurs: from/after perk up only.
- moves back to bored after 4 minutes of no stimulus
- dance: detects music [can I detect rhythm?] for 6+ seconds
- occurs: from asleep, bored, perkup, focused
- 30 day convulsion [any time in a 30 day period]: goes through a sequence, slightly random, as if it had detected something you cannot see that excites it and communicates with it
- occurs: from bored