Study of Dance Entertainment Using Robots

Shinozaki, Kuniya; Oda, Yousuke; Tsuda, Satoshi; Nakatsu, Ryohei; Iwatani, Akitsugu

doi:10.1007/11736639_59

Cited by 9 publications

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“…Robot dancers have been proposed previously (eg. [16,18,8]). However these approaches have focused on individual aspects of dance, such as rhythm, entertainment or the level of interaction.…”

Section: Social Components Of the Dance Scenariomentioning

confidence: 99%

Child-robot interaction in the wild

Ros

Nalin²,

Wood

et al. 2011

Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces

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We present insights gleaned from a series of child-robot interaction experiments carried out in a hospital paediatric department. Our aim here is to share good practice in experimental design and lessons learned about the implementation of systems for social HRI with child users towards application in "the wild", rather than in tightly controlled and constrained laboratory environments: a trade-off between the structures imposed by experimental design and the desire for removal of such constraints that inhibit interaction depth, and hence engagement, requires a careful balance. Categories and Subject Descriptors General TermsDesign, Experimentation, Human Factors, Theory. KeywordsChild-robot interaction, experimental practice, human-robot interaction, interaction design, social robotics. THE CHALLENGES OF LONG-TERM HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTIONOver the last few decades electromechanical progress in robotics has outpaced developments in artificial cognition. This has been noticeable across the various sub-fields of . robotics, but never more so than in social robotics. Robots embedded in a social environment not only need to deal with the challenges encountered by field robots, but in addition need capabilities for coping with highly dynamic and stochastic elements inherent in the social milieu. As such, social robots have to face a number of challenges which are to a large extent still beyond the current state of the art in science and technology. The three main challenges yet to be surmounted by social robotics are:1. Contingent responding in dynamic social environments:In field robotics, an action by the robot does not necessarily induce a significant reaction from the environment: an unmanned vehicle driving around a rock, does not precipitate a response from the rock. In a social environment however, an action by a robot will almost always prompts some reaction from the user or users. Endowing robots with capabilities for contingent and appropriate handling of user responses, plus some capacity for the prediction of responses to their subsequent actions, is one of the main challenges in HRI.2. Interpretation of social sensory information: in contrast to robots which do not engage in interaction over natural communication channels, social robots are required to make sense of social signals. For interactions that go beyond proto-social responses, this has proven to be a tremendous challenge. The multi-modal aspect of social interaction thus continues to elude us, but even the interpretation of single modalities, such as gesture or language, has proven to be extremely challenging. The early promise of multi-modal communication channels constraining the interpretation of social information has delivered limited progress.3. Designing sociable robots: while progress in the electromechanical design of robots has been impressive and we seem to have a fairly clear understanding of which elements of the physical embodiment of a robot engage the user, the biggest challenge remains the creation believable, contingent...

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Section: Social Components Of the Dance Scenariomentioning

confidence: 99%

Child-robot interaction in the wild

Ros

Nalin²,

Wood

et al. 2011

Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces

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“…Figures 7, 8, and 9 show the obtained data for a phase shift of 0 degree (pace), 90 degree (gallop), and 180 degree (trot). Figures 7,8,and 9 show that the tilt angle for pace walking style is larger than other two styles especially at a first step. Thus this waking style is not adequate for carrying a load such as a teacup or a newspaper.…”

Section: Evaluation Of the Robotmentioning

confidence: 91%

“…We have developed a robot that can achieve Chinese exercise called Tai-chi [8]. Also we have proposed and developed a robot system that can achieve various kinds of dance motions [9] [10]. Through these studied we have confirmed that this robot has a stability, flexibility, and sustainability to be used to various kind of applications.…”

Section: Humanoid Robotsmentioning

confidence: 94%

Development and Evaluation of a Centaur Robot

Tsuda

Shinozaki

Nakatsu

2008

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. Recently various types of robots are being studied and developed, which can be classified into two groups: humanoid type and animal type. Since each group has its own merits and demerits, a new type of robot is expected to emerge with greater strengths and fewer weaknesses. We have proposed a new type of robot called the "Centaur Robot" by merging the concepts of these two types of robots. This robot has a human-like upper body and a four-legged animal-like lower body. Due to this basic architecture, we have found that the robot has several merits, including human-like behaviors and stable walking. This time we have carried out the experiments to evaluate the stability of its waling motion. This paper described the detailed results of the experiments as well as the construction of the software/hardware of the robot.

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“…In another paper, they showed a real example of dancing robot using a humanoid robot developed by Nirvana Technology [3]. However, their system aimed to dance to 140BPM music and can't be adapted for music with a different BPM.…”

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Autonomous Humanoid Robot Dance Generation System based on real-time music input

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There have been many attempts made by companies and researchers to make people feel more familiar with robots. As one example, Dance performance of Entertainment Robot could conceivably provide an event that would be seen easily in a public place. In most cases, however, programmers' and researchers' workload, if they were to attempt to program dance motions for a robot and synchronize them, would be too heavy. In addition, pre-programmed dance motion and synchronization information are useful only for one certain music and are useless for any other music input. To solve these problems, we have introduced a new system that can make a robot dance automatically with real-time music input. The system consists of two main parts: the first is a real-time beat extraction system for music; the second one is a system of dance motion for a humanoid robot. In the first part, music input is analyzed using FFT and peak-to-peak time duration in the low frequency area is computed. In the second part, the process of making and synchronizing the dance motion of the humanoid robot is described. Finally, we perform experiments to check the validity of the proposed system. Also, limitations and further work are described.

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Study of Dance Entertainment Using Robots

Cited by 9 publications

References 8 publications

Child-robot interaction in the wild

Child-robot interaction in the wild

Development and Evaluation of a Centaur Robot

Autonomous Humanoid Robot Dance Generation System based on real-time music input

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