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IROS
2006
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Balance Control of a Humanoid Robot Based on the Reaction Null Space Method
— A humanoid robot should be able to keep its balance even in the presence of disturbing forces. Studies of human body reaction patterns to sudden external forces are useful to d...
Akinori Nishio, Kentaro Takahashi, Dragomir N. Nen...
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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14 years 20 days ago
Double spherical joint and backlash clutch for lower limbs of humanoids
In this paper, we develop tw o mechanisms for improving humanoid robot motions. The double spherical joint is a six DOF mechanism whose axes intersect in one point. This mechanism...
Masafumi Okada, Tetsuya Shinohara, Tatsuya Gotoh, ...
HRI
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
A model for imitating human reaching movements
We present a model of human-like reaching movements. This model is then used to give a humanoid robot the ability to imitate human reaching motions. It illustrates that having a r...
Micha Hersch, Aude Billard
ICRA
2002
IEEE
129views Robotics» more  ICRA 2002»
14 years 10 days ago
Adapting Human Motion for the Control of a Humanoid Robot
Using pre-recorded human motion and trajectory tracking, we can control the motion of a humanoid robot for free-space, upper body gestures. However, the number of degrees of freed...
Nancy S. Pollard, Jessica K. Hodgins, Marcia Riley...
ICRA
2002
IEEE
185views Robotics» more  ICRA 2002»
14 years 10 days ago
Development and Evaluation of an Interactive Humanoid Robot "Robovie"
In this paper, we report about a new interactionoriented robot, which communicates with humans and will participate in human society as our partner. For realizing such a robot, we...
Takayuki Kanda, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Tetsuo Ono, Mich...