Overcoming Motor-Rate Limitations in Online Synchronized Robot Dancing

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10.1080/18756891.2012.718120How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Beat-synchronous robot motion, online sensorimotor control, robot dancing, beat tracking

Abstract

We propose an online sensorimotor architecture for controlling a low-cost humanoid robot to perform dance movements synchronized with musical stimuli. The proposed architecture attempts to overcome the robot's motor constraints by adjusting the velocity of its actuators and inter-changing the attended beat metrical-level on-the-fly. Moreover, we propose quantitative metrics for measuring the level of beat-synchrony of the generated robot dancing motion and complement them with a qualitative survey about several aspects of the demonstrated robot dance performances. Tests with different dance movements and musical pieces demonstrated satisfactory beat-synchrony results despite the physical limitations of the robot. The comparison against robot dance sequences generated without inter-changing the attended metrical-level validated our sensorimotor approach for controlling beat-synchronous robot dancing motions using different dance movements and facing distinct musical tempo conditions.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - JOUR
AU  - CatarinaB. Santiago
AU  - JoaoL. Oliveira
AU  - LuisP. Reis
AU  - Armando Sousa
AU  - Fabien Gouyon
PY  - 2012
DA  - 2012/08/01
TI  - Overcoming Motor-Rate Limitations in Online Synchronized Robot Dancing
JO  - International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems
SP  - 700
EP  - 713
VL  - 5
IS  - 4
SN  - 1875-6883
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1080/18756891.2012.718120
DO  - 10.1080/18756891.2012.718120
ID  - Santiago2012
ER  -