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Real-Time Dance Generation to Music for a Legged Robot

Bi, Thomas
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Fankhauser, Peter
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Bellicoso, Dario
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January 7, 2019
2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

The development of robots that can dance has received considerable attention. However, they are often either limited to a pre-defined set of movements and music or demonstrate little variance when reacting to external stimuli, such as microphone or camera input. In this paper, we contribute with a novel approach allowing a legged robot to listen to live music while dancing in synchronization with the music in a diverse fashion. This is achieved by extracting the beat from an onboard microphone in real-time, and subsequently creating a dance choreography by picking from a user-generated dance motion library at every new beat. Dance motions include various stepping and base motions. The process of picking from the library is defined by a probabilistic model, namely a Markov chain, that depends on the previously picked dance motion and the current music tempo. Finally, delays are determined online by time-shifting a measured signal and a reference signal, and minimizing the least squares error with the time-shift as parameter. Delays are then compensated for by using a combined feedforward and feedback delay controller which shifts the robot whole-body controller reference input in time. Results from experiments on a quadrupedal robot demonstrate the fast convergence and synchrony to the perceived music.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1109/IROS.2018.8593983
Author(s)
Bi, Thomas
Fankhauser, Peter
Bellicoso, Dario
Hutter, Marco
Date Issued

2019-01-07

Published in
2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
Start page

1038

End page

1044

Subjects

Robot kinematics

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Legged locomotion

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Music

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Delays

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Trajectory

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Real-time systems

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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OTHER

EPFL units
NCCR-ROBOTICS  
Event nameEvent placeEvent date
2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Madrid, Spain

October 1-5, 2018

Available on Infoscience
October 31, 2019
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/162596
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