Dancing Robots: The Control Theory of Communication Through Movement

摘要: This chapter summarizes work to understand various aspects of the communication that occurs through movements partners in a dance. The first part paper adopts terminology motion description languages and deconstructs an elementary form well-known popular dance, salsa, terms four primitives (dance steps). These can be specified entirely by motions dancer’s feet, hence effectively carried out simple unicycle-like mobile robots. We describe experiment which ten performances actual pair dancers are evaluated judges then compared several complexity metrics. An energy metric is also defined. Values this obtained summing up lengths segments executed wheeled robots replicating human each dance performances. Of all metrics considered experiment, most closely correlated with assessments performance quality. second discusses enhanced (intermediate level) salsa upper body play role steps In version, it stipulated must remain physical contact holding hands. number increased eleven, requirement dancers’ hands linked imposes constraints on structure sequences. discussed using ideas from topological knot theory. Using natural Markov model generate possible sequences, shown because enforce syntactic transitions, entropy rate intermediate level smaller than beginner salsa. concludes brief discussion challenges approaches creating robotic movement will perceived as having artistic merit.