Overview of Humix project/community and the highlevel architecture.

1. Humix
COMMUNITY KICK-OFF 2015/10/29

2. An open-source robot framework based on
Bluemix, IoT foundation and Watson Artificial Intelligence
Come on, yet another robot framework ?

3. Part 1 : Overview

4. It all starts from a hackathon …

5. composable
services
flexible
platform
versatile
channel

6. Loosely-coupled architecture with IoT Foundation

7. after 8 hours coding session,
First generation of Humix was born
Listens
IRC communication
Feels
the sentiment of discussion
Says
basic Chinese

8. Humix Omega
Humix Alpha
Humix Beta
Humix Delta
https://www.facebook.com/humixomega

9. Humix Omega Features
Sensors
• Report current temperature
• Report current humidity
• shadow mode : Heart-rate sync with owner
• wake up or sleep triggered by NFC
Instinctive
Behavior
Cognitive
Computing
• Close eye with the environment is too bright
• The eye will enable idle mode when no activity
Communication
Channel
• IRC (input/output)
• Facebook messenger(input/output). This is a new node
we added on NodeRed
• Speech-to-Text (input) . Text-to-Speech (output).
Support English and Chinese today.
• Monitor the message received from Facebook (comments or
messenger), turn eye color to green if received positive
message, otherwise turn the eye color to blue
• How old am I : when asked for age from messenger, humix
will take a picture and report the estimated age of the people
in the picture

10. Hundreds of SensorsThousands of API/Services
MeetsWhen

11. API Examples
http://blog.mashape.com/list-of-10-face-detection-recognition-apis/

12. API Examples

13. API Examples

14. API Examples

15. API Examples
http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercloud/dialog.html?
cm_mc_uid=09618670703314348724626&cm_mc_sid_50200000=1446093870

16. How to reuse ?
What are the minimal steps ?

17. What is YOUR robot ?

18. Part 2 : Humix Deep Dive

19. Humix In Action

20. MicroService Architecture
“An approach to developing a single application as a suite
of small, independently deployable services”
Application
Service Service Service Service
Messaging Infrastructure
pub
sub

21. Humix Architecture
HUMIX SENSE
ModuleA ModuleB ModuleC
NATS
WebSocket
Dashboard
HUMIX THINK
Flow
Engine
API API API API API
RPI2
Cloud

22. Module Registration
HUMIX SENSE
ModuleA ModuleB ModuleC
NATS
WebSocket
Dashboard
HUMIX THINK
Flow
Engine
{
moduleName: ‘Temperature’
commands: [‘cmd1’,’cmd2’],
events: [‘event1’,’event2’]
}
humix.sense.mgmt.cmd.register

23. Module Status Check
HUMIX SENSE
ModuleA ModuleB ModuleC
Dashboard
HUMIX THINK
Flow
Engine
PING
PONG
DeviceModule Status

24. Humix Architecture
HUMIX SENSE
ModuleA ModuleB ModuleC
Dashboard
HUMIX THINK
Flow
Engine
API API API API API
Community
Foundation
Community

25. Programming Model
1. Require Humix-Sense and provide module config

26. Programming Model
2. Connect to “Think”

27. Programming Model
3. Process “commands”, send “events” on device

28. Humix NG UI

29. NG HUMIX
Homemade Robot
Signup | Login
Hello World! Build your own Humix!
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Signup now!

30. NG HUMIX
Homemade Robot
Signup | Login
Hello World! Build your own Humix!
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Signup now!
User ID
Password
humix@ibm.com
********
LoginCancel

31. NG HUMIX
Homemade Robot
+ Add a Member
You haven’t added any robot yet.
Humix Family | Humix Sense | Humix Think | Logout

32. Humix Family | Humix Sense | Humix Think | Logout
NG HUMIX
Homemade Robot
+ Add a Member
You haven’t added any robot yet.
ID
Humix - alpha
Thumbnail
Default Custom upload
AddCancel

33. NG HUMIX
Homemade Robot
+ Add a Member
Humix - Alpha
Humix - Beta
Humix - Omega
Active
Active
Member ID Status Modules
5
0
2
Sleeping
more
more
more
Actions
Humix Family | Humix Sense | Humix Think | Logout

34. NG HUMIX
Homemade Robot
+ Add a Member
Humix - Alpha Humix - Beta Humix - Omega
Active Greeting Active Greeting Sleeping Diagnose
Humix Family | Humix Sense | Humix Think | Logout

35. NG HUMIX
Homemade Robot
+ Add a Member
Humix - Alpha Humix - Beta
Active Greeting Active Greeting
| Rename Robot
| Delete Robot
Humix - Omega
Sleeping Diagnose
Humix Family | Humix Sense | Humix Think | Logout

36. NG HUMIX
Homemade Robot
+ Add a Member
Humix - Alpha Humix - Beta
Active Greeting Active Greeting
Humix - Omega
Sleeping Diagnose
Make your robot say “hello!”
Humix Family | Humix Sense | Humix Think | Logout

37. NG HUMIX
Homemade Robot
+ Add a Member
Humix - Alpha Humix - Beta
Active Greeting Active Greeting
Humix - Omega
Sleeping Diagnose
Run diagnose on
connectivity problem
Humix Family | Humix Sense | Humix Think | Logout

38. NG HUMIX
Homemade Robot
Humix - Alpha
Checkout other robots
You haven’t registered any modules yet.
Humix Family | Humix Sense | Humix Think | Logout

39. NG HUMIX
Homemade Robot
Humix - Alpha
Temperature Sensor Camera
Eye Control
Checkout other robots
Registered Modules
Heartbeat
Realtime temperature data
28 ℃
Realtime heartbeat rate
100 /min
This module controls the
camera on humix sense.
This module controls the
eyes on your humix sense.
Humix Family | Humix Sense | Humix Think | Logout

40. Project Repositories
node-humix-sense
humix-ng
humix-tts-module
humix-neopixel-module
https://github.com/project-humix/humix-ng
https://github.com/project-humix/humix-tts-module.git
https://github.com/project-humix/humix-neopixel-module.g
https://github.com/project-humix/node-humix-sense

41. Part 3 : Humix Next

42. Most desirable features are …

43. Next Step
1. Monthly Meetup with specific Robot skills and lightning
sessions
2. More humix modules !
3. Make humix Fly

44. Referenced Projects
https://www.facebook.com/humixomega
http://nats.io
http://nodered.org
http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net
http://tts.itri.org.tw/index.php
Message Bus
Flow Editor Bus
Voice Recognition
Text-To-Speech Service