Our research of this year have accomplish the following task:1) Propose multi-sensory feedback system architecture, including haptic feedback devices, audio systems, and scent dispensers.2) Software development, including integration with VR platforms and programming of sensory stimuli.

Our research is to Model the behaviors of human musicians ina quantified approach to understand the mechanisms of playing instruments andreproduce them on musical robots to realize bidirectional musical human-robotinteraction.The system is developed based on the following two parts:(1) Musical expression system with psychoacoustic elementsfor interactive performance on a anthropomorphic saxophonist robot(2) A conductor robot performs conducting gestures andalgorithm to generate commands base on the auditory information

Our research is to Model the behaviors of human musicians and conductor in a quantified approach to understand the mechanisms of exchanging musical information and reproduce them on musical robots to realize bidirectional musical human-robot interaction.The system is developed based on the following two parts:(1) Musical expression system with psychoacoustic elementsfor interactive performance on a anthropomorphic saxophonist robot(2) A conductor robot performs conducting gestures andalgorithm to generate commands base on the auditory information

Music is a social activity that can powerfully influence large groups of people. In the robotics field, several musical robots have been developed to play different kinds of instruments in order to provide entertainment experience comparable to human musicians. In this research, we aimed to model and reproduce human’s behavior of playing the instrument on the Waseda Anthropomorphic Saxophonist (WAS) robot, and build an interactive system for bidirectional musical human-robot interaction. During a high-quality musical performance, techniques like dynamics are used to give extra expressions to the music for emotional interaction. Since the WAS robot has been developed to play a typical alto saxophone with mechanisms similar to human players, we reproduce human’s behavior of playing the instrument by modeling musician’s motions. The system will be based on the following two parts for delivering expressive performance and analysis the emotional instructions from the music pieces.