Overcoming Motor-Rate Limitations in Online Synchronized Robot Dancing

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2012

Authors

santiago, cb (Author) Other; oliveira, jl (Author) Other; reis, lp (Author) FEUP; sousa, a (Author) FEUP; gouyon, f (Author) FEUP

Journal

Title: International Journal Of Computational Intelligence Systems

Vol. 5

Pages: 700-713

ISSN: 1875-6891

Publisher: ATLANTIS PRESS

Indexing

ISI Web of Knowledge - 3 Citations

Scopus - 3 Citations

Scientific classification

FOS: Natural sciences > Computer and information sciences

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-002-750

DOI: 10.1080/18756891.2012.718120

Abstract (EN): 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.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 14