RoboJockey: real-time, simultaneous, and continuous creation of robot actions for everyone.
Takumi Shirokura, Daisuke Sakamoto, Yuta Sugiura, Tetsuo Ono, Masahiko Inami, and Takeo Igarashi
Abstract
We developed the RoboJockey (Robot Jockey) interface for coordinating robot actions, such as dancing, similar to a "disc jockey" or "video jockey" who selects and plays recorded music or video for an audience, in this case, robot’s actions, and giving people a new entertainment experience with robots. The system enables a user to choreograph a robot to dance using a simple visual language. RoboJockey consists of a multi-touch tabletop interface for multi-user collaboration. Every icon on the interface is circular and can be operated from all positions around the tabletop interface. RoboJockey supports two types of robots, a simple mobile robot and a humanoid robot. Users can coordinate the mobile robot’s actions with a combination of back, forward, and rotating movements, and the humanoid robot’s actions with a combination of arm and leg movements. Every action is automatically performed to background music. We demonstrated RoboJockey at a Japanese domestic symposium, and confirmed that people enjoyed using the system and successfully created entertaining robot dances.
Publication
Takumi Shirokura, Daisuke Sakamoto, Yuta Sugiura, Tetsuo Ono, Masahiko Inami, and Takeo Igarashi.
RoboJockey: real-time, simultaneous, and continuous creation of robot actions for everyone.
In Adjunct proceedings of the 23nd annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (UIST '10) Demonstration. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 399-400.
DOI=10.1145/1866218.1866239
Takumi Shirokura, Daisuke Sakamoto, Yuta Sugiura, Tetsuo Ono, Masahiko Inami, and Takeo Igarashi.
RoboJockey: real-time, simultaneous, and continuous creation of robot actions for everyone.
In proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (ACE'10). ACM, , Nov. 17-19, 2010, Taiwan. Best Paper Silver Award.