Authors:
Geise Santos, Johnty Wang, Carolina Medeiros, Marcelo M. Wanderley, Tiago Tavares, Anderson RochaPublication or Conference Title:
Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2021)Abstract:
Wireless sensor-based technologies are becoming increasingly accessible and widely explored in interactive musical performance due to their ubiquity and low-cost, which brings the necessity of understanding the capabilities and limitations of these sensors. This is usually approached by using a reference system, such as an optical motion capture system, to assess the signals’ properties. However, this process raises the issue of synchronizing the signal and the reference data streams, as each sensor is subject to different latency, time drift, reference clocks and initialization timings. This paper presents an empirical quantification of the latency communication stages in a setup consisting of a Qualisys optical motion capture (mocap) system and a wireless microcontroller-based sensor device. We performed event-to-end tests on the critical components of the hybrid setup to determine the synchronization suitability. Overall, further synchronization is viable because of the near individual average latencies of around 25ms for both the mocap system and the wireless sensor interface.
Publication Details:
Type: |
Conference Paper |
Date: |
06/14/2021 |
Location: |
Shanghai, China |
