hmi.bml.bridge.emitters
Class BlinkEmitter

java.lang.Object
  java.lang.Thread
      hmi.bml.bridge.emitters.BlinkEmitter

All Implemented Interfaces:

Runnable

public class BlinkEmitter
extends Thread

Emits blink behaviors to a RealizerBridge with a certain probabilitydistribution. Distribution parameters can be modified on the fly; the emitter will immediately change the blinking behavior. Next blink bml block will always start after the previous blink block (append-after) -- even if it were acceidentally fired too early. basic implementation: wait time equally distributed over avg-range..avg+range better implementation: - better calculation of expected non-blink duration (see Weissenfeld Liu Ostermann Figure 2) - itti et al: model of blinkgenerator and blinksuppressor, also coupled to saccades (!) What this emitter does NOT do is couple blinks to, e.g., ongoing speech, emotions, external events, etc

Author:

Dennis Reidsma

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class java.lang.Thread

Thread.State, Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler

Field Summary

private double	averagewaitingtime
private int	blinkcount
private double	currentwaitingtime
private long	lastblink
private org.slf4j.Logger	logger
private boolean	parameterschanged
private double	range
protected RealizerBridge	realizerBridge The realizerbridge
(package private) boolean	running
private String	scheduling

Fields inherited from class java.lang.Thread

MAX_PRIORITY, MIN_PRIORITY, NORM_PRIORITY

Constructor Summary

BlinkEmitter(RealizerBridge bridge)

Method Summary

void	basicMethodSetAvg(double w)
void	basicMethodSetRange(double r)
protected void	basicMethodSetWaitForNextBlink() Basic method: average waiting time; actual time distributed equally over avg-range..avg+range
protected void	emitBlink()
void	run()
protected void	setWaitForNextBlink()
void	stopRunning()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Thread

activeCount, checkAccess, countStackFrames, currentThread, destroy, dumpStack, enumerate, getAllStackTraces, getContextClassLoader, getDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler, getId, getName, getPriority, getStackTrace, getState, getThreadGroup, getUncaughtExceptionHandler, holdsLock, interrupt, interrupted, isAlive, isDaemon, isInterrupted, join, join, join, resume, setContextClassLoader, setDaemon, setDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler, setName, setPriority, setUncaughtExceptionHandler, sleep, sleep, start, stop, stop, suspend, toString, yield

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

logger

private org.slf4j.Logger logger

realizerBridge

protected RealizerBridge realizerBridge

The realizerbridge

lastblink

private long lastblink

currentwaitingtime

private double currentwaitingtime

blinkcount

private int blinkcount

parameterschanged

private boolean parameterschanged

scheduling

private String scheduling

running

boolean running

averagewaitingtime

private double averagewaitingtime

range

private double range

Constructor Detail

BlinkEmitter

public BlinkEmitter(RealizerBridge bridge)

Method Detail

run

public void run()

Specified by:

run in interface Runnable

Overrides:

run in class Thread

stopRunning

public void stopRunning()

emitBlink

protected void emitBlink()

setWaitForNextBlink

protected void setWaitForNextBlink()

basicMethodSetWaitForNextBlink

protected void basicMethodSetWaitForNextBlink()

Basic method: average waiting time; actual time distributed equally over avg-range..avg+range

basicMethodSetAvg

public void basicMethodSetAvg(double w)

basicMethodSetRange

public void basicMethodSetRange(double r)