Re: w10 & w11 Final Project
Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 11:49 pm
Autonomous Flying Artists:
This gallery installation would utilize Vijay Kumar’s “Autonomous Agile Arial Robots.” As the name suggests these robots are completely autonomous and are able to react to moving surroundings with incredible reaction time. Their success is due to an algorithm that the robots calculate 100 times a second in order to glide through obstacles with haste and ease.
Visitors to the gallery would be able to enter a large room with the robots. Although they would be moving quickly trough the space, the visitors would be able to walk freely without having to worry about being hit since the robots would avoid collision. In addition to the people as objects, there would also be an array of props such as hoops and panels in order to further interact with the robots’ flight patterns.
Each robot would be equipped with a GPS in order to track their flight. Then, with the help of a variation of Paint with Your Feet designed by YesYesNo, the paths of the robots would be turned into works of art and projected onto the walls.
The gallery would consist of one large room with projected images on the walls, Each projector would correspond to one of the robots flying around. The projections would not be animated, but they would change every so often in order to show changes in the gallery space.
This gallery installation would utilize Vijay Kumar’s “Autonomous Agile Arial Robots.” As the name suggests these robots are completely autonomous and are able to react to moving surroundings with incredible reaction time. Their success is due to an algorithm that the robots calculate 100 times a second in order to glide through obstacles with haste and ease.
Visitors to the gallery would be able to enter a large room with the robots. Although they would be moving quickly trough the space, the visitors would be able to walk freely without having to worry about being hit since the robots would avoid collision. In addition to the people as objects, there would also be an array of props such as hoops and panels in order to further interact with the robots’ flight patterns.
Each robot would be equipped with a GPS in order to track their flight. Then, with the help of a variation of Paint with Your Feet designed by YesYesNo, the paths of the robots would be turned into works of art and projected onto the walls.
The gallery would consist of one large room with projected images on the walls, Each projector would correspond to one of the robots flying around. The projections would not be animated, but they would change every so often in order to show changes in the gallery space.