WO2001095314A1 - Robot acoustic device and robot acoustic system - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a hearing device for a robot, particularly for a humanoid or animal robot.
- Active perception is a system that supports a perception device that is responsible for perception such as robot vision and robot hearing so that it follows the target to be perceived. is there.
- the direction of the optical axis is held toward the target by the attitude control by at least the camera force driving mechanism, which is a perception device, and the target is automatically focused, zoomed in, zoomed, and the like.
- the target is captured by a camera, and various studies are being conducted.
- the microphone which is a sensory device
- the microphone is held so that its directivity is directed to the target by posture control by the drive mechanism, and sound from the target is collected by the microphone .
- the disadvantage of active hearing is that while the drive mechanism is operating, the operating noise of the microphone drive mechanism, especially burst noise, is picked up, and a large noise force is mixed into the sound from the target. The sound from the target may not be recognized correctly.
- a microphone is installed near the noise source to collect noise from the noise source, and the noise at the place where the noise from the noise source is to be canceled is reduced by an IIR (infinite impulse response) filter or FIR (A method for eliminating noise by predicting with an adaptive filter such as a filter and canceling the noise by canceling the noise by outputting from the speaker the noise that is in phase opposite to the noise predicted at the location L. It is.
- noise is canceled by prediction based on past data, and it is difficult to deal with so-called burst noise. Further, since the noise is canceled using the adaptive filter, the phase difference information between the left and right channels is distorted or disappears, so that it is impossible to determine the direction of the sound.
- a microphone that collects noise from a noise source collect only noise as much as possible, but it is difficult for a robot hearing device to collect only noise.
- the distance between the noise source and the speaker must be a certain distance from the speaker before, but the robot must In the case of a hearing device, an external microphone that collects external sound and an internal microphone that collects internal noise are installed relatively close to each other. It is difficult to adopt the law.
- the present invention enables active perception by collecting sound from an external target without being affected by noise generated inside the robot such as a drive mechanism. It is intended to provide a robot hearing device and a robot hearing system. Disclosure of the invention
- a robot provided with a noise source inside, provided with a soundproof exterior covering at least a part of the robot, and provided on an outer side of the above-mentioned device.
- At least two external microphones that mainly collect external sounds
- at least one internal microphone that is provided inside the exterior and mainly collects noise from internal noise sources
- a processing unit for canceling a noise signal from an internal noise source from an acoustic signal from an external microphone based on a signal from an internal microphone, and a direction for directing sound from left and right acoustic signals from the processing unit.
- An information extraction unit, and the processing unit detects burst noise due to a noise source from a signal from the internal microphone, and detects a band noise including the burst noise. Achieved by a robot hearing device that specializes in removing signal parts
- the soundproof exterior is configured for self-recognition.
- the difference in intensity between the inner and outer microphones is close to the difference in noise intensity in the drive mechanism of the template, and the intensity of the spectrum of the input sound of the inner and outer microphones and the pattern correspond to the noise frequency response of the drive mechanism in the template.
- the above-mentioned section preferably removes a signal portion in this band while using the noise as burst noise when the driving mechanism is operating.
- the direction information extracting unit calculates the direction information of the sound and assigns the direction of the sound (sound source localization) by a method based on the epipolar geometry for hearing. For sound with a wave structure, sound source separation using a harmonic structure and robust sound source localization using sound intensity information are performed.
- a robot having a noise source inside, which at least partially covers the robot, preferably a soundproof exterior for self-recognition of the robot. At least two external microphones provided outside the exterior and mainly collecting external sound, and at least one internal microphone provided inside the exterior and mainly collecting noise from an internal noise source.
- the sound from the external microphone is A processing unit for canceling a noise signal from an internal noise source from the signal, and a harmonic structure with a pitch indicated by the acoustic data by performing frequency analysis on each of the left and right acoustic symbols from the processing unit.
- a pitch extraction unit for extracting sound data relating to time, frequency, noise, and temperature, a left and right channel corresponding unit for directing sound based on the left and right sound data extracted by the pitch extraction unit,
- a sound source separation unit that separates the sound data into sound data for each sound source based on the harmonic structure or the sound direction information extracted by the left and right channel corresponding units, and the processing unit includes: A robot that detects burst noise from a noise source from a signal from an internal microphone and removes a signal portion of a band including the burst noise.
- the above object is to cover at least the head of the robot in a human-type or animal-type robot provided with a noise source such as a drive mechanism therein, preferably A soundproof exterior for the robot's self-recognition, and at least one pair of external microphones provided outside the above-mentioned exterior at the binaural positions corresponding to both ears and mainly for collecting external sounds; At least one internal microphone that is provided inside the exterior and collects noise mainly from internal noise sources, and based on the signals from the above microphone and the internal microphone, the sound signal from the external microphone is used.
- a noise source such as a drive mechanism therein
- a processing unit that cancels the noise signal from the internal noise source, and a harmonic structure with a pitch that indicates the sound data force by performing frequency analysis on the left and right sound signals from the processing unit.
- a pitch extraction unit for extracting the sound data relating to the interval, frequency and power, a left and right channel corresponding unit for directing the sound based on the left and right sound data extracted by the pitch extraction unit, and a harmonic structure of the sound.
- a sound source separation unit that separates the sound data into sound data for each sound source based on the sound direction information extracted by the left and right channel corresponding units, and the processing unit includes: O 0 is achieved by a robot auditory system that detects burst noise caused by a noise source from a signal from an internal microphone and removes a signal portion in a band including the burst noise.
- the robot further includes a perception system such as visual and tactile sensation. It refers to the information from the perception system and the control signals of the drive mechanism to determine the direction of the sound and associate it with the image.
- a perception system such as visual and tactile sensation. It refers to the information from the perception system and the control signals of the drive mechanism to determine the direction of the sound and associate it with the image.
- the left and right channel responding units output information relating to the direction of sound to the perception system.
- the intensity difference between the inner and outer microphones is close to the noise intensity difference of the template driving mechanism, and the intensity and pattern of the input sound of the inner and outer microphones are the noise of the template driving mechanism.
- the processing section removes the noise as burst noise, preferably the signal portion in this band.
- the power of the acoustic signal from the internal microphone is sufficiently larger than the power of the otogo from the external microphone, and the power of a predetermined value or more in a plurality of subbands of a predetermined frequency width is provided.
- the processing unit removes a signal portion in this band as burst noise.
- the robot hearing system has a pattern of the power difference between the noise of the driving mechanism and the pattern of the power of the sound signal from the external microphone and the internal microphone.
- the processing section removes the signal portion in this band as burst noise.
- the left and right channel corresponding units calculate the direction information of the sound by a method based on the epipolar geometry for hearing to determine the direction of the sound (sound source localization).
- sound source localization For a sound having a sound source, robust (local) sound source localization is performed using sound source separation using harmonic structure and sound strong information.
- the external microphone mainly collects sound mainly from an external target
- the internal microphone mainly collects noise from a noise generation source such as a drive mechanism inside the robot.
- the noise signal from the noise source inside the robot is mixed into the otogo that has been picked up by the external microphone, and this mixed noise signal is sent to the processing unit. In this way, the noise is canceled by the noise signal collected by the internal microphone and is significantly reduced.
- the processing unit detects a burst noise due to a noise source from a signal from the internal microphone, and removes a signal portion of a band including the burst noise from a signal from the external microphone, thereby obtaining a direction information extracting unit or
- the sound direction in the left and right channels can be more accurately determined without being affected by burst noise.
- a sound signal is extracted from the noise-cancelled sound signal by frequency analysis by the pitch extraction unit, and the sound signal is directed by the left and right channel corresponding units from the sound signal. Then, the sound source separation unit separates the sound data into sound data for each sound source.
- the sound signal from the external microphone can easily and significantly reduce noise from the noise source such as the drive mechanism inside the robot due to the processing in the processing unit, and particularly includes burst noise. Since the S / N ratio is greatly improved by removing the signal portion of the band, the sound data of each sound source can be more properly separated.
- the system is equipped with a perception system such as robot force vision and tactile sensation.
- a perception system such as robot force vision and tactile sensation.
- the left and right channel corresponding units refer to information from these perception systems to determine the direction of sound, for example, a visual device Based on the visual information on the target from the left and right channels, the left and right channel counterparts can make a clearer orientation.
- the right channel corresponding unit When the right channel corresponding unit outputs information on the direction of the sound to the above-mentioned perceptual system, for example, it outputs information on the direction of the target by hearing to the visual device.
- the device can provide a more accurate orientation.
- the processing unit determines that the intensity difference between the internal and external microphones is close to the noise intensity difference of the template drive mechanism, the intensity and pattern of the input sound of the internal and external microphones are close to the noise frequency response of the template drive mechanism, In addition, when the drive mechanism is operating, when noise is used as burst noise to remove the signal portion in this band, or the power of the voice from the internal microphone The power of the old voice from the external microphone It is sufficiently large and has a power not less than a predetermined value in a plurality of subbands having a predetermined frequency width, When the continuous operation of the drive mechanism is detected by the control signal of the drive mechanism, if the signal portion of this band is removed as the processing unit noise, the burst noise can be easily removed.
- the pattern of the spectrum power difference of the sound signal from the external microphone and the internal microphone is almost the same as the previously measured pattern of the noise power of the driving mechanism.
- the pattern is almost the same as the frequency response of the noise of the drive mechanism measured in advance, and when the operation of the drive mechanism is detected by the control signal of the drive mechanism, the above-described section generates a signal in this band as noise. When a portion is removed, burst noise can be more accurately removed.
- the direction information extraction unit calculates the direction information of the sound and assigns the sound direction (sound source localization) by a method based on the geometry of the epipole, and uses the harmonic structure for the sound having the harmonic structure.
- FIG. 1 is a front view showing the appearance of a humanoid mouth-boat incorporating the first embodiment of the robot hearing device according to the present invention.
- FIG. 2 is a side view of the humanoid mouth bot of FIG.
- FIG. 3 is a schematic enlarged view showing the configuration of the head of the humanoid mouth bot of FIG.
- FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing an electrical configuration of the robot hearing system in the humanoid robot of FIG.
- FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing a main part of the mouth pot auditory system of FIG.
- FIG. 6 (A) is a schematic diagram showing orientation in visual sense
- FIG. 6 (B) is a diagram showing orientation in auditory sense by epipolar geometry.
- FIG. 7 and 8 are conceptual diagrams showing the sound source localization and sound source separation processes, respectively.
- FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram showing an experimental example of the robot hearing system of FIG.
- FIG. 10 is a spectrogram of an input signal in (A) fast motion and (B) slow motion of the robot head in the experiment of FIG.
- FIG. 11 (A) is a graph showing directional information in a fast operation when burst noise is not removed in the experiment of FIG. 9, and FIG. 11 (B) is a graph showing directional information in a slow operation.
- Fig. 12 (A) is a graph showing direction information in fast operation when weak burst noise is removed in the experiment of Fig. 9, and Fig. 12 (B) is a graph showing direction ft information in slow operation. .
- FIG. 13 (A) is a graph showing direction information in fast operation when strong burst noise is removed in the experiment of FIG. 9, and FIG. 12 (B) is a graph showing direction information in slow operation.
- Fig. 14 (A) is a spectrogram corresponding to Fig. 13 (A)
- Fig. 14 (B) is a spectrogram corresponding to Fig. 13 (B), in which the signal is stronger than noise. Shows the case.
- Fig. 15 (A) is a graph showing the frequency response of the noise of the driving means by the internal microphone
- Fig. 15 (B) is a graph showing the frequency response by the external microphone
- FIG. 16 (A) is a graph of the noise of the driving means in the frequency response of FIG. 15, and
- FIG. 16 (B) is a graph showing the pattern of the spectral power difference of the external sound.
- Figure 17 is a spectrogram of the input signal in the slow motion of the robot head.
- FIG. 18 is a graph showing directional information when burst noise is not removed.
- FIG. 19 is a graph showing direction information obtained by the first burst noise elimination method similar to the experiment of FIG.
- FIG. 20 is a graph showing direction information by the second burst noise elimination method.
- FIGS. 1 and 2 show the overall configuration of an experimental humanoid robot provided with one embodiment of the robot hearing system according to the present invention.
- the humanoid robot 10 is configured as a 4-DOF (degree of freedom) robot, and is supported on the base 11 and the base 11 so as to be rotatable around one axis (vertical axis).
- the base 11 may be fixedly arranged, may be operable as a leg, or may be mounted on a movable cart or the like.
- the body 12 is rotatably supported on a vertical axis with respect to the base 11 as shown by an arrow A in FIG. 1 and is driven to rotate by driving means (not shown). In addition, in the case shown, it is covered with a soundproof exterior.
- the head 13 is supported by the body 13 via a ⁇
- the head 13 is entirely covered with a soundproof exterior 14 as shown in FIG. 3, and a camera 15 as a visual device in charge of robot vision is provided on the front side. And a pair of external microphones 16 (16a, 16b) as hearing devices in charge of robot hearing on both sides.
- the head 13 is provided with a pair of internal microphones 17 (17a, 17b) which are arranged inside the exterior 14 so as to be spaced apart from each other. I have.
- the upper unit 14 is made of a sound-absorbing synthetic resin such as urethane resin, for example, so that the inside of the head 13 is sound-insulated by almost completely sealing the inside of the head 13. Is configured.
- the exterior of the body 12 is similarly made of sound absorbing ⁇ -fat.
- the exterior 14 is also for the robot to recognize itself, and plays a role of separating sounds emitted from inside and outside the robot for self-recognition.
- self-recognition means distinguishing between the sound of the robot, the noise emitted from the drive means inside the robot, the voice emitted from the mouth of the robot (not shown), and the sound from outside the robot. means.
- the exterior 14 is configured so that the inside of the robot is sealed to such an extent that the sound inside the robot and the sound outside can be distinguished.
- the camera 15 has a known configuration, and a commercially available camera having a so-called pan, tilt, and zoom 3D OF (degree of freedom) can be applied.
- the microphones 16 are attached to the sides of the head 13 so as to have directionality toward the front.
- the left and right external microphones 16a, 16b on the left and right of the external microphone 16 are, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, respectively, stepped portions 14a, Installed inside at 14b, through the through holes provided in the steps 14a, 14b to collect the sound of the front, as well as to pick up the sound inside the exterior L4 as much as possible Sound is shielded by appropriate means such as sound reflecting material and sound absorbing material.
- the external microphones 16a and 16b are configured as door-to-stomach binaural microphones.
- the steps 14a and 14b may be formed in the shape of a human outer ear or a bowl.
- the internal microphones 17 are located near the external microphones 16 a and 16 b, respectively, inside the exterior 14, and in the case shown in the drawing, above the both ends of the camera 15. They are arranged in pairs. That is, near one external microphone 16a One internal microphone 17a is provided, and the other internal microphone 17b is provided near the other external microphone 16b.
- the internal microphone 17 is not limited to the above-described position, and may be provided at an arbitrary position inside the exterior 14.
- FIG. 4 shows an electrical configuration of a hearing system for sound processing including the external microphone 16 and the internal microphone 17.
- the hearing system 20 includes amplifiers 2 la, 21 b, and 2 a that respectively widen the sound from the external microphones 16 a and 16 b and the internal microphones 17 a and 17 b.
- the AD converters 22 a to 22 d are configured to extract a signal sampled at 48 kHz with a quantization bit number of 16 or 24, for example. Then, the digital audio signal SOL from the left external microphone 16a and the left internal microphone 17a The SIL is input to the noise removal circuit 23, and the digital signal output from the external microphone 16b on the right side SOR and the digital signal output from the internal microphone 17b on the left side SIR are the noise removal circuit 24 Is input to These noise elimination circuits 23 and 24 have the same configuration, and are configured to cancel noise from an acoustic signal from the external microphone 16 by a noise signal from the internal microphone 17.
- the noise elimination circuit 23 converts the digital sound signal SOL from the external microphone 16a into a noise signal SIL from the internal microphone 17 and a noise source inside the robot that has collected the sound, for example, most simply, Digital sound from external microphone 16a Sound from external microphone 16a by noise cancellation processing by appropriate processing such as subtracting the acoustic signal SIL from internal microphone 17a from SOL
- the left acoustic signal SL is generated by removing noise from noise sources such as each drive mechanism (drive means) inside the robot mixed into SOL.
- the noise SR from the external microphone 16 b removes noises from noise sources such as drive mechanisms inside the robot mixed with the sound SIR from the external microphone 16 b to generate the right signal SR.
- the above self-noise removal circuits 23 and 24 detect so-called burst noise from the Onsatsu SIL and SIR from the internal microphones 17 a and 17, and output the acoustic sounds of the external microphones 16 a and 16 b.
- burst noise By removing the signal part corresponding to this burst noise band from the signals SOL and SOR, the accuracy of the direction of the sound due to the mixing of burst noise is improved.
- the removal of the burst noise is performed as follows in the noise removing circuits 23 and 24.
- the noise elimination circuits 23 and 24 are provided with a first burst noise elimination method, in which the sounds SIL and SIR of the internal microphones 17a and 17b and the sound from the external microphones 16a and 16b (words SOL , SOR, the power of the speech signals SIL, SIR, and the peak force at which the power of the acoustic signals SOL, SOR is sufficiently larger than the power of the acoustic signals SIL, SIR and a predetermined value (for example, 30 dB) or more
- a sub-band with a width of, for example, 47 Hz if a certain number (for example, 20) or more of the sub-bands are covered, and the driving means continues to operate, it is determined that there is a burst noise, and the The signal portions corresponding to the sub-bands of the symbols S OL and SOR are removed, and the noise removal circuits 23 and 24 are supplied with the control signals of the drive mechanism.
- burst noise removal method As a method of removing burst noise and determining the detection thereof, it is preferable to perform a second burst noise removal method, which will be described later.
- Such burst noise is removed by, for example, an adaptive filter.
- This adaptive filter is a linear phase filter, and is composed of, for example, an FIR filter of the order of 100.
- the parameters of each FIR filter are calculated by the least squares method as an adaptive algorithm.
- the noise elimination circuits 23 and 24 each function as a burst noise elimination unit to detect and eliminate the burst noise.
- the pitch extraction units 25 and 26 have the same configuration.
- the left and right speech signals SL and SR from the noise elimination circuits 23 and 24 are frequency-analyzed, respectively, and are analyzed from the three axes of time, frequency and power. Is configured to take out the acoustic data. That is, the pitch extraction unit 25 performs frequency analysis on the left acoustic signal SL from the noise elimination circuit 23 to obtain a three-axis signal SL consisting of time and power from three axes of time, frequency, and power. Extract the left acoustic data DL called Spectrodarum.
- the pitch extraction unit 26 performs a frequency analysis of the right sound signal SR from the noise elimination circuit 24 to obtain the time and power from the two-axis sound signal SR composed of time and power. Extract the right acoustic data DR consisting of three axes of frequency and power.
- the frequency analysis is performed by performing FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) with a window length of, for example, 2 O msec and shifting by 7.5 msec.
- FFT Fast Fourier Transform
- Such frequency analysis may be performed not only by FFT but also by various general methods.
- each sound in voice and music is shown as a series of peaks on a spectrogram, and generally has a harmonic structure, and has an integer multiple of frequency.
- the values have regular peaks.
- the extraction of the peak is performed as follows.
- the spectrum is calculated, for example, by performing a Fourier transform on the 102 4 subbands at a sampling rate of 48 KHz.
- local peaks having power equal to or higher than the threshold are extracted from the spectrum.
- the threshold differs for each frequency, and is automatically obtained by measuring the darkness of the room for a certain period of time.
- a bandpass filter is used to cut the frequency range below 90 Hz where noise is large and the high frequency range above 3 kHz where power is small to reduce the computational complexity.
- the left and right channel corresponding sections 27 are the same for the pitch of the harmonic structure indicated by the peak in the acoustic data DL and DR from the left and right pitch extraction sections 25 and 26, based on the phase difference, time difference, and the like.
- Left and right channels for pitch derived from sound The direction of the sound is determined by associating with.
- the sound direction is determined by, for example, calculating the sound direction information (sound source localization) by a method based on epipolar geometry, and for a sound having a harmonic structure, the harmonic structure is changed. Robust sound source localization is performed using the sound source separation and sound intensity difference information used.
- X 2 d,, "-d Force holds, where f is the focal length of each camera, b is the base line, and d is defined as (X 1 -X r).
- V is the speed of sound and f is the frequency of the sound.
- phase difference IPD ⁇ 0 occurs between the left and right sounds SOL and SOR from the external microphones.
- the sound direction is determined by, for example, extracting peaks by FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) so that the bandwidth of each subband is 47 Hz, and calculating the phase difference IPD.
- FFT Fast Fourier Transform
- the peak extraction is calculated sufficiently fast and accurately, for example, by calculating the Fourier transform for 1024 subbands at a sampling rate of 48 kHz, compared to the case where HRTF is used.
- HRTF head related transfer function
- spectral subtraction is used, for example, using a 10 I 4 point FFT at a sampling rate of 48 KHz.
- this spectral traction involves spectral interpolation that also takes into account the properties of the window function of the FFT.
- the left and right channel corresponding unit 27 functions as a direction information extraction unit, as shown in FIG. 5, to extract the direction information.
- the left and right channel corresponding units 27 provide information on the target from other perceptual systems 30 (not shown) provided in the robot 10 in addition to the auditory system 20, specifically, for example, the position of the target by the visual system.
- the left and right channel channel correspondence section 27 compares the direction information (by hearing) with the direction information (by vision) based on the visual information from the camera 15 and checks and associates these properties.
- the left and right channel corresponding unit 27 calculates the relative position with respect to the target by acquiring the directional information (robot coordinates) of the head 13 based on the control signals of the driving means of the humanoid robot 10. can do. As a result, even when the humanoid robot moves by 10 forces, the direction of the sound from the target is more accurately determined.
- the above-mentioned sound source separation section 28 receives the direction information and the sound data DL and DR from the left and right channel corresponding sections 27 according to the configuration of b, and uses the direction pass filter to obtain the direction. Based on the attached information, the sound source is identified from the sound data DL and DR, and the sound data is separated for each sound source.
- This direction pass filter collects subbands, for example, as follows. That is, after converting the specific direction ⁇ into ⁇ ⁇ for each subband (47 Hz), the peak is extracted and the phase difference (IPD) and are calculated. Then, when the phase difference is, the subband is collected. In this way, the above processing is performed for all subbands, and the waveform composed of the collected subbands is obtained. Is configured.
- the spectrum of the left and right channels obtained by simultaneous FFT is Sp ( ° and Sp ( r), and the peak frequency of Sp (fp) is ⁇ p
- the spectrum Sp of the left and right channels is (1) (fp) and Sp Cr) (fp) are the real parts R [Sp Cr) (fp)], R [Sp co (fp)] and the imaginary parts I [Sp ( r ) (fp)], It is represented by I [Sp C1 (fp)].
- FIG. 7 is a diagram of the processing.
- robust sound source localization can be performed on sound with harmonic structure by a method of realizing sound source separation by harmonic structure extraction. That is, this is realized by exchanging the left and right channel corresponding unit 27 and the sound source separating unit 28 in the module shown in Fig. 4 and inputting them to the data left and right channel corresponding unit 27 from the sound source separating unit 28. it can.
- sound source separation and sound source localization for a sound having a harmonic structure will be described.
- the peaks extracted by peak extraction are taken out in order from the one with the lowest frequency.
- the clustering is performed as an overtone of the frequency F 0 having the frequency F 0 and a frequency F n that can be regarded as an integer multiple with an error within a certain amount (for example, 6% obtained by a psychological experiment).
- the final set of peaks collected by this clustering is regarded as one sound. Thereby, sound source separation is performed.
- the sound source localization will be described.
- the present invention applies a method based on auditory epipolar geometry, which extends the concept of epipolar geometry in stereo vision to auditory sense, as a sound source localization method using IPD that does not depend on the HRTF.
- the input sound is divided into two components: a harmonic component of 1.5 KHz or higher and a harmonic component of 1.5 KHz or lower.
- a harmonic component of 1.5 KHz or higher For this reason, the input sound is divided into two components: a harmonic component of 1.5 KHz or higher and a harmonic component of 1.5 KHz or lower.
- ⁇ 90 from the front of the robot using the auditory epipolar geometry.
- the IPD hypothesis (P h ( ⁇ , f k )) is generated every 5 ° in the range of.
- the IPD (P s (f k )) at each overtone of the input and the distance (d ( ⁇ )) between each hypothesis are calculated by the distance function shown in the following equation, where n f ⁇ 1.5 KHz Is the number of harmonics whose frequency is less than 1.5 KHz.
- n is the number of d.
- the humanoid robot 10 is configured as described above, and the sounds from the external microphones 16a, 16b, which are to collect power, are collected as follows. It is perceived as a sound source due to noise cancellation.
- external microphones 16a and 16b mainly collect external sounds from the target and output analog sound signals.
- the external microphones 16a and 16b also collect noise from the inside of the mouth bot, but the exterior 14 itself seals the inside of the head 13 and the external microphones 16a and 16b Sound insulation As a result, mixed noise is kept at a relatively low level.
- the internal microphones 17a and 17b mainly collect noise from the inside of the robot, for example, noise from noise sources such as the operating noise of each drive mechanism and the operating noise of the cooling fan described above.
- the internal microphones 17a and 17b also collect sound from outside, but the level is kept relatively low because the exterior 14 seals the inside.
- -sign from the external microphones 16a and 16b and the analog sound signals from the internal microphones 17a and 17b are amplified by the amplifiers 21a to 2Id, respectively. After that, the digital signals are converted into digital signals SOL, SOR, SIL, and SIR by the AD converters 22a to 22d, and input to the noise removal circuits 23 and 24.
- the noise elimination circuits 23 and 24 perform operations such as subtracting the acoustic signals SIL and SIR of the internal microphones 17a and 17b from the acoustic signals SOL and SOR from the external microphones 16a and 16b, respectively.
- the noise signal from the noise source inside the robot is removed from the sound signals SOL, S0R from the external microphones 16a and 16 and the burst noise is detected, and the external microphone 16a , 16 sound # 1 signal S0L and SOR remove the sub-band signal part including the burst noise, and output the true sound signals SL and SR, respectively, from which noise, especially burst noise, has been removed. .
- the pitch extraction units 25 and 26 extract the pitches of all the sounds included in the audio signals SL and SR by frequency analysis based on the audio signals SL and SR, respectively, and correspond to the pitches.
- the sound data DL and DR are output to the left and right channel corresponding unit 27 together with the harmonic structure of the sound, the start time and the end time.
- the sound direction of each sound source is determined based on the left and right channel corresponding parts 27 and the sound data DL and DR.
- the left and right channel corresponding unit 27 compares the harmonic structures of the left and right channels based on the sound data DL and DR extracted by the pitch extracting units 25 and 26, for example, and determines the closest pitch. Correspond. In this case, not only do the left and right channel pitches be compared one-to-one, but also the pitches of one channel It is preferable to make a more accurate correspondence by comparing with a single pitch.
- the left and right channel corresponding unit 27 compares the phases of the pitches associated with each other, and calculates the direction information of the sound by a method based on the above-mentioned epipolar geometry, thereby performing the direction of the sound.
- the sound source separation unit 28 extracts sound data related to sound for each sound source from the sound data DL and DR based on the sound direction information from the left and right channel corresponding unit 27, and Separate into sound.
- the auditory system 20 can perform sound recognition and recognition by separating sound for each sound source, and perform active hearing.
- the noise elimination circuits 23 and 24 allow the sound signals S 0 L and SOR from the external microphones 16 a and 16 b to be used. , Noise cancellation from the internal microphones 17a and 17b, noise cancellation based on SIL and SIR, and a burst of ⁇ S0L and SO signals from external microphones 16a and 16b By removing the signal components of the sub-bands including noise, each drive mechanism directs the directivity of the external microphones 16a and 16b toward the target, and is not affected by the burst noise.
- the orientation can be performed and the orientation can be calculated by a method based on the epipolar geometry without using the HRTF as in the related art, the HRTF can be changed by changing the sound environment. Adjustment or re-measurement. It is not necessary, the calculation time can be shortened, even in an unknown sound environment, by separating the sound from the sound sources, it is possible to perform accurate speech recognition Ri good.
- the acoustic recognition of the target is performed while the directivity directions of the external microphones 16a and 16b are always made to follow the target by each drive mechanism. Can be performed.
- the left and right channel corresponding units 27, for example, as the other perception systems 30 refer to the target's visual orientation information from the visual system to determine the direction of the sound, thereby providing a more accurate sound direction. Can be attached.
- the sound direction information is output to the left and right channel visualization system 27. May be.
- the visual system determines the direction of the target by image recognition, the target moves and hides behind an obstacle by referring to the direction information about the sound of the auditory system 20. Even in this case, the direction of the target can be more accurately determined by referring to the sound from the target.
- the humanoid robot 10 faces speakers 41 and 42 as two sound sources in a living room 40 of 10 square meters.
- the humanoid robot 10 is pointing its head 13 at a direction of 53 degrees (rightward at 0 degrees and counterclockwise) (direction before rotation).
- One speaker 41 reproduces a monotone sound of 500 Hz, and is located at a position 5 degrees to the left (58 degrees) in front of the humanoid robot 10.
- the other speaker 42 reproduces a monotonous sound of 600 Hz, and is located 69 degrees to the left (127 degrees) of the speaker 41 when viewed from the humanoid robot 10.
- the distance from the humanoid robot 10 to each of the speakers 41 and 42 is about 210 cm.
- the humanoid robot 10 cannot see the speaker 42 from the camera 15.
- the experiment shows that the rotational speed of the head 13 of the humanoid robot 10 is fast (68.8 degrees Z seconds) and slow (14.9 degrees Z seconds), and that the SZN ratio is 0 dB.
- the test was performed under the conditions of weak noise (the same power as the internal standby sound) and strong noise (burst noise) with an SZN ratio of about 50 dB. The following results were obtained.
- Fig. 10 is a spectrogram of the internal sound (noise) generated inside the humanoid robot 10, where (A) shows the case of a fast operation and (B) shows the case of a slow operation. These spectrograms clearly show the noise caused by the drive motor. Have been.
- the direction information obtained by the conventional noise removal is greatly affected by noise while the head 13 is rotating (between 5 and 6 seconds).
- the humanoid robot 10 rotationally drives the head 13 to track the sound source, a noise is generated that makes the hearing almost ineffective.
- FIG. 14 (A) shows a spectrogram corresponding to FIG. 13 (A)
- FIG. 14 (B) shows a spectrogram corresponding to FIG. 13 (B). If the signal is stronger than the noise, the signal is L.
- the noise removal circuits 23 and 24 determine the presence / absence of burst noise for each subband based on the power of the acoustic signals SIL and SIR, and remove the burst noise.
- the removal of the burst noise may be performed as follows based on the sound quality of the exterior 14.
- the noise input to the microphone is treated as burst noise when the following three requirements ((1) to (3)) are satisfied at a certain time.
- the intensity difference between the internal and external microphones 16a, 16b, 17a, and 17b is close to the noise intensity difference of the driving means such as the template motor.
- the drive means such as a motor is operating.
- the noise elimination circuits 23 and 24 are previously provided with the acoustic measurement data (see FIG. And (B) and FIG. 16 (A) and (B)), that is, the sound signal data from the external microphone 16 and the internal microphone 17 are measured and stored as a template.
- the noise elimination circuits 23 and 24 are connected to the internal microphones 17a and 1 for each subband.
- the determination of the burst noise is performed using the sound measurement data remembered above as a template. That is, the noise elimination circuits 23 and 24 determine whether the pattern of the spectral power difference (or sound pressure difference) between the external microphone and the internal microphone is equal to the noise pattern of the driving means in the measured sound measurement data.
- the sound pressure and pattern of the spectrum are approximately the same as the measured frequency response of the noise of the driving means, and the driving means continues to operate, the It is determined that there is noise, and the signal portion corresponding to the subband is removed.
- burst noise is based on the following reason.
- the sound and gender of the exterior 14 are measured in an anechoic room. At this time, the items of the measured acoustic characteristics are as follows.
- Each driving means of the cover robot 10 that is, a first motor (motor 1) for swinging the head 13 in the front-back direction, a second motor (motor 2) for swinging the head 13 in the left-right direction,
- the internal microphone 17 relating to the noise of the third motor (motor 3) for rotating the head 13 around the vertical axis and the fourth motor (motor 4) for rotating the body 12 around the vertical axis
- the frequency response by the external microphone 16 is as shown in FIGS. 15 (A) and (B).
- the pattern of the spectral power difference between the internal microphone 17 and the external microphone 16 is as shown in FIG. 16 (A), which is obtained by subtracting the frequency response of the internal microphone from the frequency response of the external microphone. Is received.
- the impulse response consists of 12 matrix elements in the horizontal and vertical directions: horizontal, 0, ⁇ 45, ⁇ 90, and ⁇ 180 degrees from the center of the robot, and vertical, 0 and 30 degrees. Measured.
- the noise of the driving means is in a wide band, and the signal from the internal microphone is 10 dB M ⁇ greater than the signal from the external microphone as shown in Figs. 15 (A) and (B).
- the noise of the driving means is slightly larger or almost the same for the external microphone than for the internal microphone at frequencies above 2.5 kHz. And so on. This indicates that the external microphone is more likely to pick up the noise of the driving means because the external sound is cut off by the exterior 14.
- the noise of the driving means is slightly larger in the internal mic than in the external mic at frequencies below 2 kHz, and this tendency is especially high at 70 kHz, as shown in Fig. 16 (B). This is significant at frequencies below 0 Hz. This indicates resonance in the exterior 14 and corresponds to ⁇ / 4 at a frequency of 500 Hz since the diameter of the exterior 14 is about 18 cm. In Fig. 16 ( ⁇ ), a similar resonance force is generated.
- the internal sound is about 10 dB higher than the external sound on average, comparing Fig. 15 ( ⁇ ) and ( ⁇ ). Therefore, the internal and external sound separation efficiency of the exterior 14 is about 10 dB
- the driving means (motor )
- the noise removal circuit 23, 24, and 24, and the above-described burst noise judgment is performed for each sub-band, and the noise corresponding to the sub-band determined to have burst noise is determined.
- the effects of burst noise can be eliminated.
- FIG. 17 shows a spectrum diagram of an internal sound (noise) generated inside the humanoid robot 10. According to this spectrogram, the burst noise caused by the drive motor is clearly shown.
- the direction information without noise removal is affected by the noise while the head 13 is rotating (5 to 6 seconds). While the head 13 is being driven to rotate to generate a zero force sound source, it can be seen that noise is generated that makes hearing almost ineffective.
- the direction information obtained by the first burst noise elimination method described above shows that the shaking due to the influence of the burst noise is slight even during the rotational driving of the head 13. Fewer and more accurate direction information can be obtained.
- the humanoid robot 10 is configured to have 4 DOF (degree of freedom).
- the present invention is not limited to this.
- the robot may be configured to perform an arbitrary operation. It is also possible to incorporate a robot hearing system according to the invention.
- the force described in the case where the robot auditory system according to the present invention is incorporated in the humanoid robot 10 is not limited to this.
- Various animal-type robots such as dog-type robots and other types of robots Obviously, it can be incorporated into a robot.
- the internal microphone 17 may be constituted by one or more microphones composed of a pair of microphones 1a and 17b.
- the external microphone 16 may be composed of two or more pairs of microphones composed of a pair of microphones 16a and 16b.
- the ANC of the prior art is not suitable for accurately performing sound source localization because a filtering process that affects the phase causes a phase shift.
- no phase shift occurs because no filtering that affects the phase information is performed, that is, the data of the part where noise is mixed is not used. Therefore, it is suitable for sound source localization.
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