Automatic violin player

Author

Huang, Hui-Hsiang ; Li, W.-H. ; Chen, Y.-J. ; Wen, Chia-Chang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. Eng., Ming-Hsin Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Hsinchu, Taiwan

fYear

2012

fDate

6-8 July 2012

Firstpage

3892

Lastpage

3897

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to build an automatic violin player. The method is to study the violin playing skill, and to develop the automatic mechanism. This research is an extension work of the previous violin robot. The new robot consists of two mechanical systems. The first system is the bowing mechanism, which is able to control the bowing velocity and position. The second system is the violin control mechanism. This system can rotate the violin to a specific angle to coordinate with the string-changing movement of the bow. It also possesses a fingering device, which is able to press on several fixed positions in correspondence with the notes of the music. The automatic violin player utilizes a PC-based controller, and is able to play many famous songs.

Keywords

musical instruments; robots; PC based controller; automatic mechanism; automatic violin player; bowing mechanism; bowing velocity; fingering device; mechanical system; music; string changing movement; violin control mechanism; violin playing skill; violin robot; Conferences; Humans; Mechanical engineering; Music; Robot kinematics; automatic violin player; automation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA), 2012 10th World Congress on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1397-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCICA.2012.6359122

Filename

6359122