due to their advantages, omni-directional mobile robots have found many applications especially in robotic soccer competitions. however, omni directional navigation system, omni-vision system and kicking mechanism in such mobile robots have not ever been combined. this situation brings the idea of a robot with no head direction into existence, a comprehensive omni directional mobile robot. such...

To explore an issue of a human-like motion, we have constructed a human-like biped robot called WABIAN-RII (WAseda BIped humANoid robot-Revised II) that has a total of fortythree mechanical degrees of freedom (DOF); two six DOF legs, two ten DOF arms, a four DOF neck, four DOF in the eyes and a torso with a three DOF waist. For human-robot symbiosis, the biped humanoid robot is required to have...

In order to interact socially with a human, a robot must convey intentionality, that is, the human must believe that the robot has beliefs, desires, and intentions. We have constructed a robot which exploits natural human social tendencies to convey intentionality through motor actions and facial expressions. We present results on the integration of perception, attention, motivation, behavior, ...

This document describes the hardware and software architecture behind the ELVIS robot. ELVIS is a bipedal robot with human-like geometry and motion capabilities | a humanoid. ELVIS is also the rst robot in a series of planned humanoid experiments, all of which will be primarily controlled by evolutionary adaptive methods. The nal goal of our research project is to build a human-sized robot base...

This paper seeks to define the anthropomorphic walking motion for humanoid robot Romeo. The main characteristics of lower and upper limb motions human being during are adapted Romeo taking into account its kinematics motor power. proposed includes starting, periodic stopping motions. A boundary value problem is stated solved each these three movements, which composed single double support phase...

This Paper is about landing control of legged robot. Body stiffness and damping is used as landing strategy of a legged robot. First, we only used stiffness control method to control legged robot landing. Second control method,sliding mode controller and feedback linearization controller is applied to enhance position control performance. Through these control algorithm, body center of gravity ...