NAOqi Interaction engines¶
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What are interaction engines¶
Some keys modules, running on your Aldebaran robot define his basic interactive and alive behavior. Developing applications and Activities running on a Aldebaran robot implies to understand the purpose of these modules and to take advantage of them.
For further details, see: Programming for a living robot.
Alive and responsive¶
| Module | Purpose |
|---|---|
| ALAutonomousLife | Maintain the robot life cycle and manage the launching of activities. |
Autonomous Abilities¶
| Module | Purpose |
|---|---|
| ALAutonomousBlinking | Enables the robot to make its eye LEDs blink when it sees someone and when it is interacting. |
| ALBackgroundMovement | Defines which slight movements the robot does autonomously when its limbs are not moving. |
| ALBasicAwareness | Allows the robot to react to the environment to establish and keep eye contact with people. |
| ALListeningMovement | Enables some slight movements showing that the robot is listening. |
| ALSpeakingMovement | Enables to start autonomously movements during the speech of the robot. |
Able to listen and answer¶
| Module | Purpose |
|---|---|
| ALDialog | Create a basic knowledge database for conversational skills. |
Deprecated modules¶
| Deprecated modules | |
|---|---|
| ALAutonomousMoves | Use the ALBackgroundMovement and ALListeningMovement instead. |
