AutoPRK - Automatic Drum Player

摘要

The paper presents the new solution of the robot playing percussion. There are two ideas of such robots: imitating a human body and realizing its function in an artificial way - without imitating a human. The presented solution belongs to the second group. It consists of 8 arms and two peripherials for control two pedals. Authors developed of entire construction of the robot and they write the software in Java for control the device. The sticks and pedals are excited with electromagnets controlled by the microcontroller ATmega328 on an Arduino board which interprete MIDI files. Authors declare full success of the project.