TY - JOUR
T1 - Development of an anthropomorphic musical performance robot capable of playing the flute and saxophone
T2 - Embedding pressure sensors into the artificial lips as well as the re-designing of the artificial lips and lung mechanisms
AU - Solis, Jorge
AU - Sugita, Yoshihisa
AU - Petersen, Klaus
AU - Takanishi, Atsuo
PY - 2016/12/1
Y1 - 2016/12/1
N2 - The authors are developing anthropomorphic musical performance robots as an approach to understand the human motor control and to enhance the human–robot interaction from an engineering point of view. For this purpose; since 1990, we have developed an anthropomorphic flutist robot. As one of our long-term approaches, we aim to develop an anthropomorphic musical performance robot capable of playing different kinds of woodwind instruments, e.g.~flute and saxophone. In this paper, the improvements of the mechanical design and sensing system of the Waseda Flutist Robot No. 4 Refined V (WF-4RV) are detailed. As for the sensing system, an array of sensors has been designed to detect the lip's pressure distribution. On the other hand, the lips and lung have been re-designed to enable the flutist robot to play the saxophone.
AB - The authors are developing anthropomorphic musical performance robots as an approach to understand the human motor control and to enhance the human–robot interaction from an engineering point of view. For this purpose; since 1990, we have developed an anthropomorphic flutist robot. As one of our long-term approaches, we aim to develop an anthropomorphic musical performance robot capable of playing different kinds of woodwind instruments, e.g.~flute and saxophone. In this paper, the improvements of the mechanical design and sensing system of the Waseda Flutist Robot No. 4 Refined V (WF-4RV) are detailed. As for the sensing system, an array of sensors has been designed to detect the lip's pressure distribution. On the other hand, the lips and lung have been re-designed to enable the flutist robot to play the saxophone.
KW - Humanoid Robot
KW - Mechanical Design
KW - Music
KW - Pressure sensing
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U2 - 10.1016/j.robot.2016.08.024
DO - 10.1016/j.robot.2016.08.024
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84992688705
VL - 86
SP - 174
EP - 183
JO - Robotics and Autonomous Systems
JF - Robotics and Autonomous Systems
SN - 0921-8890
ER -