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Could we build emotion ourselves? #43

Open ZouJennie opened 3 years ago

ZouJennie commented 3 years ago

Hello,

During the advancement of our research project, we found that the existing expressions of emotion were not enough to meet our needs. We want to know if there is a tool that can create the same style of expressions.

Thank you

codionysus commented 3 years ago

Hello @ZouJennie, I am afraid we have no tool enabling you to change/extend the existing faces of QT. But if you let us know what other facial expressions you would need, we may be able to develop and include them in our next releases.

You may however want to develop your own faces for QTrobot. Here you have full control over the QTrobot’s LCD and you can change the QTrobot’s default faces with your own custom images or videos. If this is the approach you are thinking of, please let me know to provide you with detailed instruction on how to run your own images/videos on QT’s face.

ZouJennie commented 3 years ago

Hello @ZouJennie, I am afraid we have no tool enabling you to change/extend the existing faces of QT. But if you let us know what other facial expressions you would need, we may be able to develop and include them in our next releases.

You may however want to develop your own faces for QTrobot. Here you have full control over the QTrobot’s LCD and you can change the QTrobot’s default faces with your own custom images or videos. If this is the approach you are thinking of, please let me know to provide you with detailed instruction on how to run your own images/videos on QT’s face.

Thank you for your answer. We have no specific requirements yet. After we confirm, we will contact you to inquire about related issues.

aerith-zkelov commented 2 years ago

Hello @ZouJennie, I am afraid we have no tool enabling you to change/extend the existing faces of QT. But if you let us know what other facial expressions you would need, we may be able to develop and include them in our next releases.

You may however want to develop your own faces for QTrobot. Here you have full control over the QTrobot’s LCD and you can change the QTrobot’s default faces with your own custom images or videos. If this is the approach you are thinking of, please let me know to provide you with detailed instruction on how to run your own images/videos on QT’s face.

Hi i'm interested to try this out? May i know how to display images/videos on qt's face?

codionysus commented 2 years ago

Hi @aerith-zkelov, The simple way is to use qtrobot emotion interface, which can only play .avi files. Copy your video to /home/qtrobot/robot/data/emotions/ on QTRP. After that you can play your video with /qt_robot/emotion/show and you should pass your filename without .avi extension. For example we have animation happy.avi in folder /home/qtrobot/robot/data/emotions/QT so my command would be:

rosservice call /qt_robot/emotion/show "name: 'QT/happy'"

If you want to show some images you need to create .avi file to show them and use the same emotion interface.

aerith-zkelov commented 2 years ago

Hi @aerith-zkelov, The simple way is to use qtrobot emotion interface, which can only play .avi files. Copy your video to /home/qtrobot/robot/data/emotions/ on QTRP. After that you can play your video with /qt_robot/emotion/show and you should pass your filename without .avi extension. For example we have animation happy.avi in folder /home/qtrobot/robot/data/emotions/QT so my command would be:

rosservice call /qt_robot/emotion/show "name: 'QT/happy'"

If you want to show some images you need to create .avi file to show them and use the same emotion interface.

noted, thanks for the advice!

aerith-zkelov commented 2 years ago

Hi @aerith-zkelov, The simple way is to use qtrobot emotion interface, which can only play .avi files. Copy your video to /home/qtrobot/robot/data/emotions/ on QTRP. After that you can play your video with /qt_robot/emotion/show and you should pass your filename without .avi extension. For example we have animation happy.avi in folder /home/qtrobot/robot/data/emotions/QT so my command would be:

rosservice call /qt_robot/emotion/show "name: 'QT/happy'"

If you want to show some images you need to create .avi file to show them and use the same emotion interface.

Hi based on my current knowledge we should send the file using SCP right? Since we can't directly access QTRP from the robot. Or is there another way that i am not aware of?

codionysus commented 2 years ago

HI @aerith-zkelov, Yes, the easiest way would be using SCP. You can use SCP form QTPC or from your own computer. You can check our documentation on how to display custom emotions.