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IJCATR Volume 10 Issue 11

ThamRobot: An Automated Robotic System to Play Thammattama

M.A.S.T Goonatilleke, B Hettige
10.7753/IJCATR1011.1004
keywords : Robotic Arms, Musical Robots, Traditional Drums, Thammattama, Automated Systems, Microcontrollers, Robots

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Sri Lanka has a precious traditional drum music culture that is mainly based on traditional drums. At present, this drum culture is in decline due to a lack of talented drum players. As a result, many Buddhist temples are facing a serious and tragic problem. This article presents the design and implementation of a robotic system named ThamRobot contains two robotic arms that were designed to play pre-programmed three drum tunes of the Thammattama correctly and efficiently like a drum player without any intervention of a human. In the research, nine major characteristics factors of the Thammattama such as music notes, drum locations, approximate stress, frequencies, pitch, drum type, number of sticks, playing technique, distance from stick to drum face were identified. The entire system is comprised of four main modules named motion module, user-operation module, processing module, power supply module. Finally, the system has been tested in a laboratory environment and encouraging results were obtained.
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Title = "ThamRobot: An Automated Robotic System to Play Thammattama",
Journal ="International Journal of Computer Applications Technology and Research(IJCATR)",
Volume = "10",
Issue ="11",
Pages ="248 - 256",
Year = "2021",
Authors ="M.A.S.T Goonatilleke, B Hettige"}
  • The paper presents an automated robotic system to play drum tunes of a traditional drum.
  • The system has two robotic arms that can move along X and Y axis efficiently and accurately.
  • Each robotic arm is comprised of a servo-motor and a solenoid to move arms along two axis.
  • The overall functionality of the system is controlled using a microcontroller.
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