TY - BOOK ID - 8286094 TI - Controls and Art : Inquiries at the Intersection of the Subjective and the Objective AU - LaViers, Amy. AU - Egerstedt, Magnus. PY - 2014 SN - 3319039032 3319039040 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Art and technology. KW - Arts. KW - Control theory -- Congresses. KW - Engineering. KW - Robots -- Control systems -- Congresses. KW - Robots -- Motion -- Congresses. KW - Science (General). KW - Control theory KW - Robots KW - Mechanical Engineering KW - Civil & Environmental Engineering KW - Engineering & Applied Sciences KW - Operations Research KW - Mechanical Engineering - General KW - Control systems KW - Motion KW - Automatic control KW - Digital control systems KW - Automation KW - Popular works. KW - Control engineering. KW - Robotics. KW - Automation. KW - Control. KW - Popular Science, general. KW - Robotics and Automation. KW - Electronic digital computers KW - Control and Systems Theory. KW - Arts, Fine KW - Arts, Occidental KW - Arts, Western KW - Fine arts KW - Humanities KW - Automatic factories KW - Automatic production KW - Computer control KW - Engineering cybernetics KW - Factories KW - Industrial engineering KW - Mechanization KW - Assembly-line methods KW - Automatic machinery KW - CAD/CAM systems KW - Robotics KW - Machine theory KW - Control engineering KW - Control equipment KW - Engineering instruments KW - Programmable controllers KW - Arts, Primitive UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8286094 AB - Dancing humanoids, robotic art installations, and music generated by mathematically precise methods are no longer science fiction; in fact they are the subject of this book.  This first-of-its-kind anthology assembles technical research that makes such creations possible.  In order to mechanize something as enigmatic and personal as dance, researchers must delve deeply into two distinct academic disciplines: control theory and art.  Broadly, this research uses techniques from the world of art to inspire methods in control, enables artistic endeavours using advanced control theory, and aids in the analysis of art using metrics devised by a systems theoretic approach.  To ensure that artistic influences are well represented, the individual chapters are focused so that they relate their contribution to the arts meaningfully and explicitly. Specially composed introductions set up the contributions either in terms of inspiration by artistic principles or their contribution to the arts through new analysis tools. To facilitate this, the majority of the chapters are authored jointly by experts in control theory and by artists, including dancers, choreographers, puppeteers, and painters. Connections between controls and art then permeate the text so that these important relationships play a central role in the book. Controls and Art surveys current projects in this area—including a disco dancing robot, a reactive museum exhibit, and otherworldly music—and illuminates open problems and topics for research in this emerging interdisciplinary field. It will draw attention both from experts in robotics and control interested in developing the artistic side of their creations and from academics studying dance, theater, music and the visual arts with an interest in avant-garde means of production. ER -