| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a robot that has a function of making communication with humans and reacts to a call with a simple configuration and to provide a control method of the robot. SOLUTION: The robot is configured such that its head is turnably fitted to a shell, a directivity microphone directed in a front direction of a face of the head is provided to the head, and an array microphone comprising a plurality of microphones arranged in the front part of the surrounding of its neck at a prescribed interval and a control section for controlling the robot are provided to the shell. The control section is configured to include: a voice detection means for detecting voice from the array microphone; a means for detecting a call from a human including a sound source direction from the detected voice; a head turning control means for turning the head in the detected sound source direction; a directivity microphone voice acquisition means for acquiring a voice from the directivity microphone directed in the sound source direction; and an output control means for carrying out output control on the basis of the acquired voice. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT |
