Concordia EV, Responding to Music
Many animals communicate and coordinate using sound. This fact provided inspiration to the Pleiades Robotics team and Concordia University researcher Luis Rodrigues to extend that principle to music as a basis for robotic expression and command.
Beginning in 2014 with early Spiri prototypes, Prof. Rodrigues and his graduate students created control and response software that proved the concept. A first public demonstration took place at the Montreal Maker Faire of 2014. Oboe tones, converted through a MIPI board into command signals, served as impetus for the tethered Spiri prototype to rise to different heights and dance.
"Music can become a language for robots and a new form of robotic communication," says Prof. Rodrigues. Efforts to extend this original work continue at Concordia and Pleiades.
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