Translating Cultural Choreography from Humanoid Forms to Robotic Arm

Fuente: arXiv
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Chen, Chelsea-Xi, Zhang, Zhe, Zhou, Aven-Le
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
Subjects:
Online Access:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866917098120282112
author Chen, Chelsea-Xi
Zhang, Zhe
Zhou, Aven-Le
author_facet Chen, Chelsea-Xi
Zhang, Zhe
Zhou, Aven-Le
contents Robotic arm choreography often reproduces trajectories while missing cultural semantics. This study examines whether symbolic posture transfer with joint space compatible notation can preserve semantic fidelity on a six-degree-of-freedom arm and remain portable across morphologies. We implement ROPERA, a three-stage pipeline for encoding culturally codified postures, composing symbolic sequences, and decoding to servo commands. A scene from Kunqu opera, \textit{The Peony Pavilion}, serves as the material for evaluation. The procedure includes corpus-based posture selection, symbolic scoring, direct joint angle execution, and a visual layer with light painting and costume-informed colors. Results indicate reproducible execution with intended timing and cultural legibility reported by experts and audiences. The study points to non-anthropocentric cultural preservation and portable authoring workflows. Future work will design dance-informed transition profiles, extend the notation to locomotion with haptic, musical, and spatial cues, and test portability across platforms.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2511_17603
institution arXiv
publishDate 2025
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Translating Cultural Choreography from Humanoid Forms to Robotic Arm
Chen, Chelsea-Xi
Zhang, Zhe
Zhou, Aven-Le
Robotics
Human-Computer Interaction
Robotic arm choreography often reproduces trajectories while missing cultural semantics. This study examines whether symbolic posture transfer with joint space compatible notation can preserve semantic fidelity on a six-degree-of-freedom arm and remain portable across morphologies. We implement ROPERA, a three-stage pipeline for encoding culturally codified postures, composing symbolic sequences, and decoding to servo commands. A scene from Kunqu opera, \textit{The Peony Pavilion}, serves as the material for evaluation. The procedure includes corpus-based posture selection, symbolic scoring, direct joint angle execution, and a visual layer with light painting and costume-informed colors. Results indicate reproducible execution with intended timing and cultural legibility reported by experts and audiences. The study points to non-anthropocentric cultural preservation and portable authoring workflows. Future work will design dance-informed transition profiles, extend the notation to locomotion with haptic, musical, and spatial cues, and test portability across platforms.
title Translating Cultural Choreography from Humanoid Forms to Robotic Arm
topic Robotics
Human-Computer Interaction
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.17603