The robot musician 'wabot-2' (waseda robot-2)

Ichiro Kato; Sadamu Ohteru; Katsuhiko Shirai; Toshiaki Matsushima; Seinosuke Narita; Shigeki Sugano; Tetsunori Kobayashi; Eizo Fujisawa

doi:10.1016/0167-8493(87)90002-7

The robot musician 'wabot-2' (waseda robot-2)

Ichiro Kato^*, Sadamu Ohteru, Katsuhiko Shirai, Toshiaki Matsushima, Seinosuke Narita, Shigeki Sugano, Tetsunori Kobayashi, Eizo Fujisawa

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Abstract

The wabot-2 is an anthropomorphic robot playing keyboard instruments, developed by the study group of Waseda University's Science and Engineering Department. The wabot-2 is equipped with hands tapping softly on keys, with legs handling bass keys and expression pedal, with eyes reading a score, and with a mouth and ears to converse with humans. Based on wabot-2, wasubot has been developed by Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd., whose artistic skill has been demonstrated in performing music at the Japanese Government Pavillion in Expo'85. The present paper summarizes the wabot-2's motion, visual and vocal subsystems as well as its supervisory system and singing voice-tracking subsystem.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	143-155
Number of pages	13
Journal	Robotics
Volume	3
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-8493(87)90002-7
Publication status	Published - 1987 Jun
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Anthropomorphic robot
Autonomous robot
Dexterity
High speed image processing
Multiple Degrees of Freedom
Speech recognition
Speech synthesis
ccd camera

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Engineering(all)

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