| dc.description.abstract | Puppetry is an ancient entertainment method
used by people to release their stress and represent
stories. The puppet figure may be an object that
resembles a person, an animal, or a mythical character
controlled by a human using external help like rods or
strings. The human who controls the puppet is known as
the puppeteer. There are various types of puppets
namely; marionettes, hand puppets, rod puppets, shadow
puppets, and finger puppets. With the advancement of
technology, the popularity of the art of puppetry has
decreased with time due to many reasons. The main
reason is the lack of new puppeteers to continue puppetry
and puppeteers get lower earnings, so new puppeteers
don’t motivate to continue the puppet industry. Another
reason is that with the advancement in technology,
people have lost interest in traditional entertainment
methods like puppetry, because of the increase in new
entertainment methods like TV and mobile phones. After
several studies, we decided that marionettes are the most
suited type of puppet to develop an automatic puppet
theatre base on robot technology. According to the data
we collected, there are four automatic systems and they
all uses different mechanisms to control the puppet
including quadrotors, motion capture data, and
automatic stage management technologies. This
comparative research is conducted to study the existing
systems and robotic technologies to identify the most
suited requirements and mechanisms for a robotic based
automatic puppet system and design the most effective
automatic puppet controller based on the information
found. Finally, we hope this research will be helpful to
protect the art of puppetry to stay alive for a longer
period in Sri Lanka and other countries as well | en_US |
