Fully Automated Robot Guitar
Turning a tablature file into a set of physical motions on the robot involves a lot of software work: parsing a GuitarPro file, considering potential fingerings for each note, planning the transitions between those fingerings, and optimizing the solution around...
The general architecture of a robot guitar will obviously share similarities with the way humans interact with the guitar: a set of actuators for plucking and a set of actuators for fretting. However, the complexity of some of those actuators...
While it is tempting to jump right into prototype design, the first step in any project should be translating the project goals into technical requirements. The two main categories of requirements for this project are picking and fretting, but there...
I’ve been thinking about how to build a good robot guitar off and on for the past 15 years. My interest in musical robots started when I joined the RobOrchestra project at the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Club in college. After...