Collaborative Research: Major: Puppet Choreography and Automated Marionettes

木偶舞蹈是一种高度发达的语言，用于控制机械复杂的木偶。几个世纪以来，它已经演变成一种基本上标准化的形式，允许木偶师解决由于他们工作的复杂系统而出现的问题。该项目着眼于木偶演员如何在他们对戏剧的舞蹈描述中解决复杂的任务，并利用这种理解来解决计算机科学和工程的重要问题。这些目标将通过创建一个自动化的木偶剧来实现，该木偶剧将使用木偶编排的见解来实现对从事复杂协调任务的机械复杂木偶的嵌入式控制。这项工作将影响广泛的活动，包括将编程的编排结构整合到两个创新类中，向木偶师介绍技术计算机科学和工程问题，并将木偶戏作为节目介绍给当地基督教青年会的儿童。学生在这些类也将进行统计评估，他们的能力转移的舞蹈技巧，以新颖的问题，以及木偶？能够将他们的专业知识应用于高层次的工程问题，以深入了解创造性过程的教育方面。

Puppet choreography is a highly-developed language for controlling mechanically complex marionettes. It has evolved over centuries into a largely standardized form that allows puppeteers to address issues that arise as a result of the complex systems with which they are working. The project looks at how puppeteers address complex tasks in their choreographic descriptions of plays and using that understanding to solve questions of importance to computer science and engineering. These goals will be achieved by creating an automated puppet play, which will use insights about puppet choreography to implement embedded control of mechanically complex marionettes engaged in complex coordination tasks.This work will impact a broad spectrum of activities, including integrating the choreographic structure of programming into two innovative classes, introducing puppeteers to technical computer science and engineering problems, and the introduction of puppetry as programming to children involved in a local YMCA. Students in these classes will also be statistically assessed for their ability to transfer the choreographic techniques to novel problems as well as the puppeteers? ability to apply their expertise to high-level engineering problems in order to gain insight into educational aspects of the creative process.