TY - GEN
T1 - Development of an anthropomorphic saxophone-playing robot
AU - Solis, Jorge
AU - Takanishi, Atsuo
AU - Hashimoto, Kunimatsu
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Our research aims to develop an anthropomorphic saxophone-playing robot; as an approach to understand the human motor control from an engineering point of view. In this paper, we present theWaseda Saxophonist Robot No. 2 (WAS-2) which is composed of 22 degrees of freedom (DOF). In particular, he functioning of the lips, fingers, tongue, oral cavity and lungs have been mechanically simulated to enable WAS-2 to play an alto saxophone. Furthermore, in order to ensure the accuracy of the air pressure control, a feed-forward control system with dead time compensation has been implemented.A set of experimentswere carried out to verify the effectiveness of the proposed system. From the experimental results, the range of sound pressure was increased and the air pressure control was improved.
AB - Our research aims to develop an anthropomorphic saxophone-playing robot; as an approach to understand the human motor control from an engineering point of view. In this paper, we present theWaseda Saxophonist Robot No. 2 (WAS-2) which is composed of 22 degrees of freedom (DOF). In particular, he functioning of the lips, fingers, tongue, oral cavity and lungs have been mechanically simulated to enable WAS-2 to play an alto saxophone. Furthermore, in order to ensure the accuracy of the air pressure control, a feed-forward control system with dead time compensation has been implemented.A set of experimentswere carried out to verify the effectiveness of the proposed system. From the experimental results, the range of sound pressure was increased and the air pressure control was improved.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-16259-6_14
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-16259-6_14
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80052960438
SN - 9783642162589
T3 - Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing
SP - 175
EP - 186
BT - Brain, Body and Machine
A2 - Angeles, Jorge
A2 - Kovecses, Jozsef
A2 - Boulet, Benoit
A2 - Clark, James
A2 - Siddiqi, Kaleem
ER -