A dancing robot for rhythmic social interaction

Michalowski, Marek P.; Šabanović, Selma; Kozima, Hideki

doi:10.1145/1228716.1228729

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“…Globally, it is possible to find in the literature autonomous dancing robots that range from omnidirectional egg-shaped mp3 players 11 , to quadrocopters 12 , creature-like toys 13 , Lego robots 14 , and low-cost humanoids 15 , 16 ; all applied to edutainment and/or child-care purposes.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…These include the real-time generation of motor-commands triggered by a FitzHugh-Nagumo neural network fed with musical beats on-the-fly 11 ; the generation of periodic side-to-side motions triggered in phase to the musical beats, previously detected off-line 12 ; simple periodic motor primitives controlled by the tempi of a metronome fed with live musical or visual stimuli 13 ; simple motion combinations reacting to multi-modal events, given by floor colors and multiple note-onsets' intensities 14 ; and the online generation of simple humanoid dancing sequences by interpolating random 15 or user-controllable 16 keypose combinations in phase to the musical beat.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Overcoming Motor-Rate Limitations in Online Synchronized Robot Dancing

Santiago¹,

Oliveira²,

Reis³

et al. 2012

IJCIS

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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 beatsynchrony 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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Section: Related Researchmentioning

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Overcoming Motor-Rate Limitations in Online Synchronized Robot Dancing

Santiago¹,

Oliveira²,

Reis³

et al. 2012

IJCIS

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“…Much of today's dancing robots are created for entertainment and social interaction purposes [6] [7][17], allowing people to become the entertainers or be entertained [15] themselves. Many dancing robots today are programmed to dance to specific songs or are already preprogrammed with basic movements that appear to move rhythmically to the music [1] [7].…”

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“…Many dancing robots today are programmed to dance to specific songs or are already preprogrammed with basic movements that appear to move rhythmically to the music [1] [7]. Part of the problem with this is that the repetition becomes predictable and boring.…”

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Towards a learning framework for dancing robots

Tholley

Meng

Chung

2009

2009 IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation

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“…It is not surprising then that there is intense research in the field of human-robot musical collaboration [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6]. However there are many challenges to having a robot playing music alongside a human: there are small-scale problems like actuation speed and accuracy, as well as large-scale issues such as the progression of the musical pattern.…”

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Towards a synchronised Grammars framework for adaptive musical human-robot collaboration

Sarabia¹,

Lee

Demiris³

2015

2015 24th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)

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Abstract-We present an adaptive musical collaboration framework for interaction between a human and a robot. The aim of our work is to develop a system that receives feedback from the user in real time and learns the music progression style of the user over time. To tackle this problem, we represent a song as a hierarchically structured sequence of music primitives. By exploiting the sequential constraints of these primitives inferred from the structural information combined with user feedback, we show that a robot can play music in accordance with the user's anticipated actions. We use Stochastic Context-Free Grammars augmented with the knowledge of the learnt user's preferences.We provide synthetic experiments as well as a pilot study with a Baxter robot and a tangible music table. The synthetic results show the synchronisation and adaptivity features of our framework and the pilot study suggest these are applicable to create an effective musical collaboration experience.

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A dancing robot for rhythmic social interaction

Cited by 116 publications

References 13 publications

Overcoming Motor-Rate Limitations in Online Synchronized Robot Dancing

Overcoming Motor-Rate Limitations in Online Synchronized Robot Dancing

Towards a learning framework for dancing robots

Towards a synchronised Grammars framework for adaptive musical human-robot collaboration

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