A beat-tracking robot for human-robot interaction and its evaluation

Kazumasa Murata; Kazuhiro Nakadai; Ryu Takeda; Hiroshi G. Okuno; Toyotaka Torh; Yuji Hasegawa; Hiroshi Tsujino

doi:10.1109/ICHR.2008.4755935

A beat-tracking robot for human-robot interaction and its evaluation

Kazumasa Murata^*, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Ryu Takeda, Hiroshi G. Okuno, Toyotaka Torh, Yuji Hasegawa, Hiroshi Tsujino

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Abstract

Human-robot interaction through music in real environments is essential for humanoids, because such a robot makes people enjoyable. We thus developed a beat-tracking robot which steps, sings, and scats according to musical beats predicted by using a robot-embedded microphone, as a first step to realize a robot which makes a music session with people. This paper first describes the beat-tracking robot, and then evaluated it in detail at the following three points: adaptation to tempo changes, robustness of environmental noises including periodic noises generated by stepping, singing and scatting, and human-robot interaction by using a clapping sound. The results showed that our beat-tracking robot improved noise-robustness and adaptation to tempo changes drastically so that it can make a simple sound session with people.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2008 8th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Humanoids 2008
Pages	79-84
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICHR.2008.4755935
Publication status	Published - 2008
Externally published	Yes
Event	2008 8th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Humanoids 2008 - Daejeon Duration: 2008 Dec 1 → 2008 Dec 3

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Other	2008 8th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Humanoids 2008
City	Daejeon
Period	08/12/1 → 08/12/3

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Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Human-Computer Interaction

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Murata, K, Nakadai, K, Takeda, R, Okuno, HG, Torh, T, Hasegawa, Y & Tsujino, H 2008, A beat-tracking robot for human-robot interaction and its evaluation. in 2008 8th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Humanoids 2008., 4755935, pp. 79-84, 2008 8th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Humanoids 2008, Daejeon, 08/12/1. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICHR.2008.4755935

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