Intelligent algorithm for music playing robot — Applied to the anthropomorphic piano robot control

Simple and friendly operation interface, intelligent calculation, high performance control and driving circuit, and precision and reliable plant are the necessary conditions for intelligent robot design. In this paper, an intelligent algorithm is proposed for the piano robot control with an interactive program and an automatic control code generator. The interactive program of man-machine interface makes the musical score input is simple and friendly as the piano keyboard playing. This interactive program can identify the musical beat and note automatically while the user plays the keyboard on PC monitor. The interactive program of man-machine interface makes the musical score input is simple as the piano keyboard playing. This program can identify the musical beat and note automatically while the user plays the keyboard on PC monitor and then the musical score is built. The control code generator, an intelligent algorithm, will convert the musical score to generate a series of optimum positions commands accordingly for the hands and fingers of the piano robot to play a piano. The optimum positions commands are programmed with crashing protection and minimum movement for the hands and fingers to anthropomorphize the robot. Via the algorithm operation, the music control codes are generated automatically to replace the situation of manual coding and give the ability of intelligent thinking for the piano robot.