Day 10: (Thu Sep 30, Week 5) Sliding Autonomy

Notes for 2021-09-30.

Administrative

• I’ve put a performance time on the A5 schedule for Friday Nov. 19. We’ll be bounded by the library closing at 6PM.

• My mistake: IDeATe Lending is closed much of the weekend: IDeATe Lending Full Schedule.

• Suitcase testbed Sign-Up Sheet

Agenda

1. Brief recap of Tuesday.

2. Some new demos.

   • Akai MPD218 Drum Pad Controller

   • suitcase_midi_demo.py

   • Performance Utility Tools

   • MIDI Sample Code (Python)

3. Discussion.

   • What is autonomy?

   • Scales of autonomy.

   • Sliding autonomy.

4. Individual pair work.

   • Please clarify your scope and approach for the current physical test.

   • I’ll circulate to each pair for quick feedback.

Discussion Notes

• compositional autonomy

  • claymation

  • digital animation (with rigging)

  • motion capture animation

  • music: scored, improvised, aleatoric

  • conceptual performance art

• robotic autonomy

  • animatronics

  • factory robots

  • household robots

  • military drones

  • sliding autonomy

• procedural and generative animation

  • finite state machines

  • cellular automata

  • particle systems

  • procedural rendering

  • 2D path planning

  • configuration space motion planning

• behavioral autonomy

  • regulators

  • feedback control systems

  • teleoperation

  • field and space robotics

  • artificial intelligence

• what resources will produce the best performance?

  • tools shape the art; which fit the concept?

  • using existing tools where possible

  • time-based versus installation

  • results are usually a hybrid of solutions