1A1-E05 Control of an Automatic Saxophone Performance Robot : Performance Control for Playing in a Band Using MIDI Files(Robots for Amusement and Entertainment)
Takuya Mori, Naoya Wakabayashi, Suguru Takashima · The Proceedings of JSME annual Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (Robomec) · 2014
The automatic saxophone playing robot is the robot that can play music with a normal saxophone using data of a MIDI file. If we try to make performance of some music with the robot and human players, as long as using the existing system, the human players have to synchronize the performance with the robot. Therefore, a cooperative performance system, that the robot synchronizes its performance to human players, should be invented. In the case, it is necessary that the robot changes tempo of its own performance along with the tempo of human players and hence MIDI file is used to control the robot because it is easy to edit and adjust. The control program of the robot did not play the saxophone using specific kinds of MIDI files. Therefore, it was needed to develop a control system by improving the control program of the robot to be able to play the saxophone using all kinds of MIDI files. As a result, the robot has become to play all kinds of MIDI files.