multi-string slide guitar robot

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Mechatronic music is a complex and exciting interdisciplinary field. By incorporating knowledge and skills in electronics, mechanics, and computing, it challenges artists to create one-of-a-kind musical devices. Althoughmechatronic music benefits considerably from recent technological developments, it is enriched by a long history of mechanical instruments. In thischapter, we establish a context for our research by reviewing noteworthymechatronic systems and the artists that conceived them. Furthermore, weintroduce mechatronic chordophones—the subset of mechatronic instruments that is the focus of this thesis—and we discuss their structure andvarious design strategies to understand how they work.