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Autonomous Robotic Choreography Creation via Semi-interactive Evolutionary Computation

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The creation of robotic choreography is a new hotspot of the artificial intelligence research (Peng in IEEE Trans Hum Mach Syst 45:281–293, 2015), and its final goal is for a robot to create good dance works autonomously. This is a challenging task due to the absence of the objective evaluation criteria. This paper proposes a semi-interactive evolutionary computation method for a humanoid robot to create robotic choreography autonomously. It emphasizes that the humanoid robot should develop its good dance poses and movements autonomously by means of machine learning. The proposed mechanism has been implemented on simulated NAO robots in simulation to verify its feasibility and performance.

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Notes

  1. \(L_1\)(Head limb) contains the set of Nao robot’s joints:{HeadYaw, HeadPitch}.

  2. \(L_2\) (Upper-body limb) contains the set of Nao robot’s joints: {LShoulderPitch, LShoulderRoll, LElbowYaw, LElbowRoll, LWristYaw, LHand, RShoulderPitch, RShoulderRoll, RElbowYaw, RElbowRoll, RWristYaw,RHand}.

  3. \(L_3\) (Lower-body limb) contains the set of Nao robot’s joints: {LHipYawPitch, LHipRoll, LHipPitch, LKneePitch, LAnklePitch, LAnkleRoll, RHipYawPitch, RHipRoll, RHipPitch, RKneePitch, RAnklePitch, RAnkleRoll}.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by National Key Basic Research Program of China (973 program) (Grant No.2013CB329502), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.61273338, 61363073, 61203336, 61262032, 61562029), the Major Program of National Social Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11&ZD088), and the Research Foundation of Philosophy and Social Science of Hunan Province (Grant No. 14YBX041).

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  1. Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Brain-like Intelligent Systems, Cognitive Science Department, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China

    Hua Peng, Fei Chao & Changle Zhou

  2. College of Information Science and Engineering, Jishou University, Jishou, China

    Hua Peng

  3. The Collaborative Innovation Center of Manganese-Zinc-Vanadium Industrial Technology (the 2011 Plan of Hunan Province), Jishou University, Jishou, China

    Hua Peng

  4. School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, Colchester, CO4 3SQ, UK

    Huosheng Hu

  5. College of Musicology and Dancing, Jishou University, Jishou, China

    Jing Li

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Peng, H., Hu, H., Chao, F. et al. Autonomous Robotic Choreography Creation via Semi-interactive Evolutionary Computation. Int J of Soc Robotics 8, 649–661 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-016-0355-x

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