Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : May 10, 2017 - May 13, 2017
As an entertainment robot, musical instrument performance robots are being studied. However, it is difficult to play musical instruments with the same expression as human for existing robots. Especially, in regards to percussion, it is quite difficult because human changes not only torque of joint but stiffness and viscous during playing. Therefore, we focus on applying a variable viscoelastic joints authors have studied to performance robot that playing percussive instrument. In this paper, concept of the robot is proposed and 1 degree of freedom prototype is developed. Moreover, sound volume measuring experiment is conducted by the prototype. The result is compared to the result obtained by a motor driven prototype.
