Patent ID: 7314995

Claim:
A data acquisition system for preparing pieces of inner force sense data expressing a touch on manipulators of a musical instrument, comprising: plural actuators provided in association with said manipulators, and responsive to driving signals so as to give rise to motion of said manipulators along reference test trajectories; plural sensors producing detecting signals representative of physical quantity expressing said motion of said manipulators; other sensors producing other detecting signals representative of the magnitude of force exerted on said manipulators by means of said plural actuators along said reference test trajectories; and a controller connected to said plural actuators, said plural sensors and said other sensors, responsive to pieces of test data so as to give rise to said motion of said manipulators by means of said plural actuators, and analyzing said physical quantity and said magnitude of said force so as to determine relation between said motion and said magnitude of force along said reference test trajectories, thereby preparing said pieces of inner force sense data on the basis of said relation for manipulators of another musical instrument.