Using Audio and Haptic Feedback to Improve Pitched Percussive Instrument Performance in Humanoids

Alyssa Batula, Manu Colacot, David Grunberg, and Youngmoo Kim

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

We present a system which allows an adult-sized humanoid to determine whetheror not it is correctly playing a pitched percussive instrument to produce adesired sound. As hu, man musicians utilize sensory feedback to determine ifthey are successfully using their instruments to generate certain pitches,robot performers should be capable of the same feat. We present a noteclassification algorithm that uses auditory and haptic feedback to decide if anote was well- or poorly-struck. This system is demonstrated using Hubo, anadult-sized humanoid, which has been enabled to actu, ate pitched pipes usingmallets. We show that, with this system, Hubo is able to determine whether ornot a note was played correctly.

Citation:

Alyssa Batula, Manu Colacot, David Grunberg, and Youngmoo Kim. 2013. Using Audio and Haptic Feedback to Improve Pitched Percussive Instrument Performance in Humanoids. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1178472

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Batula2013,
 abstract = {We present a system which allows an adult-sized humanoid to determine whetheror not it is correctly playing a pitched percussive instrument to produce adesired sound. As hu,
man musicians utilize sensory feedback to determine ifthey are successfully using their instruments to generate certain pitches,robot performers should be capable of the same feat. We present a noteclassification algorithm that uses auditory and haptic feedback to decide if anote was well- or poorly-struck. This system is demonstrated using Hubo, anadult-sized humanoid, which has been enabled to actu,
ate pitched pipes usingmallets. We show that, with this system, Hubo is able to determine whether ornot a note was played correctly.},
 address = {Daejeon, Republic of Korea},
 author = {Alyssa Batula and Manu Colacot and David Grunberg and Youngmoo Kim},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1178472},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {Musical robots, humanoids, auditory feedback, haptic feedback},
 month = {May},
 pages = {295--300},
 publisher = {Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST},
 title = {Using Audio and Haptic Feedback to Improve Pitched Percussive Instrument Performance in Humanoids},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2013/nime2013_235.pdf},
 year = {2013}
}