International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems

Volume 5, Issue 4, August 2012, Pages 700 - 713

Overcoming Motor-Rate Limitations in Online Synchronized Robot Dancing

Authors
CatarinaB. Santiago, JoaoL. Oliveira, LuisP. Reis, Armando Sousa, Fabien Gouyon
Corresponding Author
CatarinaB. Santiago
Received 2 September 2011, Accepted 2 July 2012, Available Online 1 August 2012.
DOI
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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Journal
International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems
Volume-Issue
5 - 4
Pages
700 - 713
Publication Date
2012/08/01
ISSN (Online)
1875-6883
ISSN (Print)
1875-6891
DOI
10.1080/18756891.2012.718120How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
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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