Daniel Langlois grant i didn't get, 2002
A brief description of project by Kal Spelletich;
I propose to develop 8 new interactive machines and robots using a version of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and exhibit them at schools, galleries and assorted venues (with workshops) throughout the US and Europe.
This grant would allow me to build this Artificial Intelligence hence giving my pieces more elaborate and sophisticated responses via inputs and interfaces, operating the pieces in a more sophisticated way via biofeedback loops.
I currently have several computer-controlled pieces that run by programs and sequences. I would like to expand upon this to make much more elaborate interfaces for more sophisticated actions and reactions from the machines. IE: An interface that smells and then interprets the smell and gives the "appropriate" VARIABLE output response to the machine Or a motion sensor that interprets movement and responds in direct feedback CORRELATING to that movement.
Some of the areas I am interested in exploring are:
Computer vision. Object recognition. Activity recognition. Scene reconstruction. Speech/sound. Gesture. Movement. Audio recognition. Movement intensity. Pupil dialation. Operator/volunteer identification. Thumbprint ID. Weight and weight variation. Shape recognition. Smell. Movement speed. Activity recognition. Scene reconstruction. Movement intensity. 2-fingertip galvinometer or any bio-morphic body output that could be interpreted as an input.
I am currently using on-off responses with valves utilizing control loops (a chain of events or processes that always leads back to the point of origin). For example I have: a lung respiration module that triggers a machine with each breath as well as an EKG unit, touch, breath, light, sound, heat and movement units. These can trigger 110 volt valves and computer sequences (these are 1,2 and 3-way propane, pneumatic and hydraulic valves).
This grant would allow me to trigger these valves in the spectrum between opening and closing as compared to just on/off. This takes a computer interface and far more expensive and elaborate hardware, programming, a true feedback loop (allowing the system to achieve the greatest level of accuracy possible), hydraulic servo valves, precise control of conditions such as pressure, force, torque, position, or flow, open loop pneumatic pressure controls, all proportion-air valves that work in a 3 way function utilizing closed and open loop control technology (providing infinitely variable flow control) and a system to record, save and apply all interactions.
Live audiences via computers, input sensors and the Internet will interface these machines and robots. They will interpret the volunteers' physical and psychological states and then trigger the machines. They will continually monitor the participant’s responses, saving all information while learning and applying these interactions. They will have embedded memory and response capabilities via computers.
This is a project to explore new forms of interpersonal communication through touch, force-feedback technology, Intimacy and social interaction via technology, machines, robots, pyrotechnics, fear, rite of passage and empowerment. So far, I have conducted over a thousand such experiments on willing volunteers.
I propose to develop 8 new interactive machines and robots using a version of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and exhibit them at schools, galleries and assorted venues (with workshops) throughout the US and Europe.
This grant would allow me to build this Artificial Intelligence hence giving my pieces more elaborate and sophisticated responses via inputs and interfaces, operating the pieces in a more sophisticated way via biofeedback loops.
I currently have several computer-controlled pieces that run by programs and sequences. I would like to expand upon this to make much more elaborate interfaces for more sophisticated actions and reactions from the machines. IE: An interface that smells and then interprets the smell and gives the "appropriate" VARIABLE output response to the machine Or a motion sensor that interprets movement and responds in direct feedback CORRELATING to that movement.
Some of the areas I am interested in exploring are:
Computer vision. Object recognition. Activity recognition. Scene reconstruction. Speech/sound. Gesture. Movement. Audio recognition. Movement intensity. Pupil dialation. Operator/volunteer identification. Thumbprint ID. Weight and weight variation. Shape recognition. Smell. Movement speed. Activity recognition. Scene reconstruction. Movement intensity. 2-fingertip galvinometer or any bio-morphic body output that could be interpreted as an input.
I am currently using on-off responses with valves utilizing control loops (a chain of events or processes that always leads back to the point of origin). For example I have: a lung respiration module that triggers a machine with each breath as well as an EKG unit, touch, breath, light, sound, heat and movement units. These can trigger 110 volt valves and computer sequences (these are 1,2 and 3-way propane, pneumatic and hydraulic valves).
This grant would allow me to trigger these valves in the spectrum between opening and closing as compared to just on/off. This takes a computer interface and far more expensive and elaborate hardware, programming, a true feedback loop (allowing the system to achieve the greatest level of accuracy possible), hydraulic servo valves, precise control of conditions such as pressure, force, torque, position, or flow, open loop pneumatic pressure controls, all proportion-air valves that work in a 3 way function utilizing closed and open loop control technology (providing infinitely variable flow control) and a system to record, save and apply all interactions.
Live audiences via computers, input sensors and the Internet will interface these machines and robots. They will interpret the volunteers' physical and psychological states and then trigger the machines. They will continually monitor the participant’s responses, saving all information while learning and applying these interactions. They will have embedded memory and response capabilities via computers.
This is a project to explore new forms of interpersonal communication through touch, force-feedback technology, Intimacy and social interaction via technology, machines, robots, pyrotechnics, fear, rite of passage and empowerment. So far, I have conducted over a thousand such experiments on willing volunteers.