Controls and Art Inquiries at the Intersection of the Subjective and the Objective /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: LaViers, Amy (Editor), Egerstedt, Magnus (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Arts.; Popular works.; Control engineering.; Robotics.; Automation.; Control.; Popular Science, general.; Robotics and Automation.

Dancing humanoids, robotic art installations, and music generated by mathematically precise methods are no longer science fiction; in fact they are the subject of this book.  This first-of-its-kind anthology assembles technical research that makes such creations possible.  In order to mechanize some...

Table of Contents:

• Metric Preference Learning with Applciations to Motion Imitation
• In the Dance Studio: An Art and Engineering Exploration of Human Flocking
• Dancing Robots: The Control Theory of Communication Through Movement
• So You Think You Can Dance?: Rhythmic Flight Performances with Quadrocopters
• Robotic Puppets and the Engineering of Autonomous Theatre
• The Artistic Geometry of Consensus Protocols
• Generating Music from Flocking Dynamics
• "Are We There Yet?": Visual Tracking of Visitors Under Variable Lighting
• Style-based Robotic Motion in Contemporart Dance Performance.