To build an adaptive autonomous robot, it must have a certain number of external sensors to observe the environment. One physical phenomenon is observed as sensor signal flows through these sensors. In this paper, we focus on a “slip” phenomenon and try to build up a network representation of slip of an anthropomorphic robot hand. A robot hand with distributed tactile sensors and a vision senso...

The human hand is a complex end-effector capable of an astonishingly large variety of postures. The ease with which the human hand seems to adapt to changing requirements is one of the challenges to the designer of a plausible substitute. At the Robotics Research Laboratory at USC there is an ongoing research project to covert an existing anthropomorphic, shape-adaptive robot hand into a viable...

Haptic exploration of unknown objects is of great importance for acquiring multimodal object representations, which enable a humanoid robot to autonomously execute grasping and manipulation tasks. In this paper we present our ongoing work on tactile object exploration with an anthropomorphic five-finger robot hand. In particular we present a method for guiding the hand along the surface of an u...

Our project is based on our proposed haptic primary color theory, and our aim is to construct an intelligent information environment that is both visible and tangible, and integrates real-space communication, a human–machine interface, and media processing. We have succeeded in transmitting fine haptic sensations such as material texture and temperature from an avatar robot’s fingers to a human...

Attentional control does not have fix functioning and can be strongly impacted by the presence of other human beings or humanoid robots. In two studies, this phenomenon was investigated while focusing exclusively on robot gaze as a potential determinant attentional along with role participants’ anthropomorphic inferences toward robot. study 1, we expected found higher interference in trials inc...

The article aims to describe stages of development a mobile, anthropomorphic robot. individual phases the bio-inspired model-based design two-legged robot are described, from analysis human walking patterns, through creation simulation model and control system testing physical such is based on an movements parts lower body during locomotion. Based this analysis, chosen motion described as combi...

Theauthors have built the first three-dimensional, kneed, two-legged, passive-dynamic walking machine. Since the work of Tad McGeer in the late 1980s, the concept of passive dynamics has added insight into animal locomotion and the design of anthropomorphic robots. Various analyses and machines that demonstrate efficient humanlike walking have been developed using this strategy. Human-like pass...

Human arm is one of the most sophisticated biological limbs known in a wildlife, capable to accomplish the most different and delicate sensory-motor tasks such as for example, lifting and carrying of payload, precise manipulation, symbolic gesticulation up to a fine sensitivity and tactile perception, pressure feeling, texture, temperature, moisture, fluid stream sensing, etc. A human arm with ...

We present a system for model-free, adaptive object tracking with a redundant anthropomorphic robot head. The visual tracking system is based on the idea of “Democratic Integration” to fuse information from several cues in a biologically plausible, self-organized fashion. The motor control system utilizes the idea of “controller partitioning” to exploit complementary capabilities of redundant d...