Music and Movement Based Dancing for a Non-Anthropomorphic Robot

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to use human motion and musical features to generate dances for non-anthropomorphic robots. Many non-humanoid dancing robots are hard-coded by their choreographer/programmer. While some robots do generate dances based on music, most of the robots are anthropomorphic and don't use human motion to enhance their dance. This research looks to introduce novel ways of generating dances for a 7 degree of freedom (DoF) robotic arm based on a variety of musical features. It also develops new methods to capture human dance motion for non-humanoid robots. Lastly, it combines human-motion influenced robotic dance with the music based generative dance using to enhance the robot's artistic expression.