Non-choreographed Robot Dance
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.26481/marble.2011.v1.112Abstract
This research aims at investigating the difficulties of enabling the humanoid robot Nao to dance on music. The focus is on creating a dance that is not predefined by the researcher, but which emerges from the music played to the robot. Such an undertaking can not be fully tackled in a small-scale project. Nevertheless, rather than focusing on a subtask of the topic, this research tries to maintain a holistic view on the subject, and tries to provide a framework based on which work in this area can be continued in the future. The need for this research comes from the fact that current approaches to robot dance in general, and Nao dance in particular, focus on predefined dances built by the researcher. The main goal of this project is to move away from the current choreographed approaches to Nao dance, and investigate how to make the robot dance in a non-predefined fashion. Moreover, given the fact that previous research has focused mainly on the analysis of musical beat, a secondary goal of this project is to focus not only on the beat, but other elements of music as well, in order to create the dance.
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