Neutrally Buoyant, Interactive ArtRyan T Alley, Cynthia Andujar

Under the direction of: Dr. Andrew Fagg, Adam Brown

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. IIS/REU/0755462.

Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) anddo not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

ALAV Art Project—Jed BerkAnd with lots of help from:

Josh Southerland

What is Interactive Art?

• The viewer is not only a bystander

• Both artist and viewers contribute to the art

• The goal of the piece is achieved through interaction

Adam Brown and Andrew Fagg: Bion

Art and Science

•They evolve together•Science provides art with the media

Our Project

Goals:

• To create a socially interactive art installation

Our Project

Goals:

• To create a socially interactive art installation

• How can we create behaviors that are engaging and expressive?

A social robot?

• How do we make a creature recognizably social?

• Now, how do we make a legless, floating creature unlike most things we’ve seen social?

• By exploring the boundaries of social behavior.

Our Project

Tertiary Aspects:

• Neutrally buoyant

• Ornithopter (winged propulsion)

• Expressed as artificial life

• Utilizes reinforcement learning

Similar Projects

Blubber Bots, Jed Berk (ALAV)

Similar Projects

Blubber Bots, Jed Berk (ALAV)

Festo

Bionic Learning Project:

Air Penguins

Current Status

• Building a prototype

• Learning reinforcement learning

• Working on structure/design

Future Work

• Ornithopter wing design (we get to play with toys)

• Building a working breadboard-based blimp

• Visual system (face recognition, etc…)

• More learning!

One more thing….

Any questions?

Any questions?

Any questions?

Any questions?

I have a question.

Has anyone thought of a name

yet?

Fin.