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Integrating an Autonomous Robot on a Dance and New Technologies Festival

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Abstract

This paper presents the results of a project to integrate an autonomous mobile robot into a modern dance performance at a dance and new technologies festival. The main goal is to integrate a simple low cost mobile robot into the dance performance, in order to study the possibilities that this kind of platforms can offer to the artists. First, this work explains the process and design to embed the robotic platform into the choreography theme. Another contribution described in this work is the system architecture proposed and built to make the robot behaviours match the artists requirements: precise, synchronized and robust robot movements. Finally, we discuss the main issues and lessons learned for this kind of robotics and arts applications and summarize the results obtained, including the successful final live performance results.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    http://www.danzatrayectos.com/en/laboratorio-de-danza-y-nuevos-medios/.

  2. 2.

    http://tardeotempranodanza.wix.com/tardeotempranodanza.

  3. 3.

    http://www.roboticart.org/iros2017/.

  4. 4.

    http://artpower.ucsd.edu/dancing-robot-huang-yi-kuka/.

  5. 5.

    https://www.robofest.net/index.php/current-competitions/graf.

  6. 6.

    http://www.turtlebot.com/turtlebot2/.

  7. 7.

    http://wiki.ros.org/gmapping.

  8. 8.

    http://wiki.ros.org/amcl.

  9. 9.

    http://wiki.ros.org/indigo, http://wiki.ros.org/turtlebot_navigation/.

  10. 10.

    https://github.com/arvydas/blinkstick-python.

  11. 11.

    http://wiki.ros.org/indigo.

  12. 12.

    https://www.zaragoza.es/ciudad/etopia/.

  13. 13.

    Video available online: http://robots.unizar.es/data/videos/robot17Etopia.mp4.

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank the support from the CESAR laboratories and its team, all the colleagues from the Robotics lab, as well as the work from all the people at Trayectos and Tarde o Temprano. This research has been partially funded the European Union (RT-ART - Grant agreement 645220), the Spanish Government (projects DPI2015-65962-R, DPI2015-69376-R) and Aragon regional government (Grupo DGA T04-FSE).

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  1. Instituto de Investigación en Ingeniería de Aragón, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

    Paula Abad, Miguel Franco, Rosa Castillón, Iñigo Alonso, Ana Cambra, Luis Riazuelo, Luis Montano & Ana C. Murillo

  2. Centro Universitario de la Defensa, Zaragoza, Spain

    Jorge Sierra

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  2. Institut de Robòtica I Informàtica Industrial (CSIC-UPC), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

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  4. Institute of Electronics and Telematics Engineering of Aveiro (IEETA), Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

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  5. IDMEC, Instituto Superior Técnico de Lisboa, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

    Carlos Cardeira

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Abad, P. et al. (2018). Integrating an Autonomous Robot on a Dance and New Technologies Festival. In: Ollero, A., Sanfeliu, A., Montano, L., Lau, N., Cardeira, C. (eds) ROBOT 2017: Third Iberian Robotics Conference. ROBOT 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 693. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70833-1_7

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