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GLOVE PUPPET MANIPULATING SYSTEM
(2010-04-15)
HU, Jwu-Sheng
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Wang, Jyun-Ji
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Sun, Guan-Qun
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Tang, Chi-Him
A glove puppet manipulating system comprises a control module for generating control signals base on movements of human hand and a robot electrically connecting the control module installed inside a glove puppet. The robot has a body manipulating apparatus disposed on a foundation to manipulate the body of the glove puppet to rotate, a pair of hand manipulating apparatuses disposed on the body manipulating apparatus to manipulate the hands of the glove puppet to swivel, and a head manipulating apparatus interposed between the hand manipulating apparatuses on the body manipulating apparatus to manipulate the head of the glove puppet to nod.
The Glove Puppet Robot: X-puppet
(2008)
Hu, Jwu-Sheng
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Wang, Jyun-Ji
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Sun, Guan-Qun
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電控工程研究所
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Institute of Electrical and Control Engineering
The glove puppet is a traditional art in Taiwan. The master puppeteer manipulates the glove puppets and brings each animated puppet character to life. In this work, we attempt to robotize the glove puppet (called X-puppet) along with three types of manipulation interface including a motion editor, a data glove and a motion capture system. The motion editor is a higher level puppet motion composer that creates and combines sequences of control in a timely fashion. The special designed data glove uses a minimum number of sensors to achieve puppet manipulation. It measures the gesture data and maps to the motion of X-puppet in real-time. The motion capture system can extract the puppet's motion from the video and then control the X-puppet to simulate the action. The whole system represents an effort to give this traditional art a new style of performance.