Busker Robot: A Robotic Painting System for Rendering Images into Watercolour Artworks

Scalera, Lorenzo; Seriani, Stefano; Gasparetto, Alessandro; Gallina, Paolo

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“…In the future, we plan to upgrade the system with an anthropomorphic robot that can move cocktails around the bar and engage in dialogue with visitors. Further research will be also dedicated to the creation of different pump configurations and the search for alternative applications, e.g., water samplers [15], multi-commuted flow systems [16], or watercolor robotic painters [17]. The prototype presentation attracted significant interest of visitors and potential investors to the project.…”

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In this paper, the development of a smart scalable system for liquid supply based on high-precision peristaltic pumps is described. The architecture of software and hardware for the proposed system is considered. This liquid supply system can be used for mixed and layered cocktail preparation in public catering establishments, such as bars, as well as for home use. Due to the flexibility and scalability of the system, it is possible to apply it in various branches of human activity, where fine dosing of liquids is required, e.g., for beverage mixing, cooking, health and medical applications. By using open architecture and software, this system can be built in a smart home environment. The cross-platform control software and an embedded Bluetooth module allow using the developed setup in various use case scenarios. The result of the project is a DIY-kit, capable of mixing 6 to 32 different liquids in specified proportions and the programmable sequence.

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“…The image processing algorithms, i.e., the non-photorealistic rendering techniques, are applied to a digital input image that is processed in order to extract the contours, the details and the backgrounds that have to be reproduced on paper. Several different algorithms have been developed for Busker Robot [1,2]: it is the artists responsibility to choose which technique, or combination of techniques, has to be applied case by case. The output of the artistic rendering is a structured list of points that identify the processed image.…”

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“…The paths resulting from the algorithms are then overlapped to obtain the final result. The NPR algorithms can be used for the processing of the areas with uniform grey intensity level of an image; furthermore, contours and details can also be added to the final result by adopting other techniques such as Canny Edge Detector, Hough Transform or Difference of Gaussians [1,2,32]. The Canny Edge Detector algorithm has been adopted in this work.…”

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“…Busker Robot, which name refers to street artists, has been previously presented in [1,2] and has been showcased for the first time in 2016 at the exhibition "Art, Science, Technology, Robotics" in Trieste, Italy. Then, it was shown at the SPS IPC Drives Italy 2017, at the "Algorithmic Arts and Robotics" exhibition during the international event Trieste Next 2017, at "Piccolo Teatro" in Milan, 2017, and, more recently, at the international festival "Robotics" in Trieste, 2018 ( Figure 1) [3].…”

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“…Furthermore, it took part to the 2018 International Robotic Art Competition (RobotArt), a context where 19 teams from all over the world competed and more than 100 artworks were created by painting robots; Busker Robot won an Honorable Mention [4]. With respect to previously published works [1,2], in this paper: (a) we present two novel non-photorealistic rendering techniques, cross-hatching and Random Splines, which are adopted for the artistic rendering of light and shades on an image, and (b) we employ non-diluted black Indian ink, instead of the previously adopted watercolor and gouache techniques.…”

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In this paper, we present non-photorealistic rendering techniques that are applied together with a painting robot to realize artworks with original styles. Our robotic painting system is called Busker Robot and it has been considered of interest in recent art fairs and international exhibitions. It consists of a six degree-of-freedom collaborative robot and a series of image processing and path planning algorithms. In particular, here, two different rendering techniques are presented and a description of the experimental set-up is carried out. Finally, the experimental results are discussed by analyzing the elements that can account for the aesthetic appreciation of the artworks.

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Busker Robot: A Robotic Painting System for Rendering Images into Watercolour Artworks

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