— This paper studies an optimal planning of falling motions of a human-sized humanoid robot to reduce the damage of the robot. We developed a human-sized robot HRP-2FX which has ...
— Most mobile robots in existence today have large, heavy, statically stable bases. To enable manipulation, actuated arms and effectors are attached to the base providing limited...
Bryan J. Thibodeau, Patrick Deegan, Roderic A. Gru...
— We present the concept of an “intelligent” joystick, an architecture which provides simple and intuitive high-level directional control of a legged robot while adjusting th...
Joel E. Chestnutt, Philipp Michel, Koichi Nishiwak...
— The goal of this study is a system for a robot to imitate human dances. This paper describes the process to generate whole body motions which can be performed by an actual bipe...
Abstract. In the Humanoid Leagues balancing during walking and running is still the biggest challenge for most of the teams. We present here some work in which a dynamic walker is ...
Norbert Michael Mayer, Minoru Asada, Rodrigo da Si...