Application of 3D sound technology to intelligent robots

Various high-fidelity VAD systems are developed for many practical application fields including games, home theatre, virtual reality, and military simulator, etc. Head-related Transfer Function is the one of key functions widely used in VAD system. We developed robot auditory systems for sound source localization to achieve the effective human-robot interaction. The developed robot auditory system, which includes artificial ear, MEMS sensor, SoC (system-on-chips) for sound localization can be used for intelligent robots to process speech/acoustic signals.

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