This paper briefs on an overview of recent progress and development in humanoid robot, HanSaRam series. HanSaRam (HSR) is a humanoid robot undergoing continual design and development in the Robot Intelligence Technology (RIT) Laboratory at KAIST since 2000. Currently HSR-VI, the latest version developed in 2004, is under experiment for on-line walking. In this paper, a method to reduce the land...

Humans have the highly-complicated musculoskeletal body structure and perform adaptive behavior. To investigate the advantages of this structure, we built a whole-body musculoskeletal humanoid with pneumatic artificial muscles. The skeletal structure and muscle arrangement of the robot are three-dimensionally designed to be similar to those of humans, especially in the lower body. Taking advant...

A Genetic Algorithm (GA) gait synthesis method for walking biped robots is considered in this paper. The walking occupy most of the time during the task performance, therefore its gait is analyzed based on the minimum consumed energy (CE) and minimum torque change (TC). The biped robot optimal gait is considered starting from static standing state and continuing with normal walking. The propose...

The paper describes a walking robot leg modelling process. A six-legged walking robot — the so-called hexapod is concerned. Each leg consists of three links driven by Hitec HS475HB servo motors. The proposed model is used for testing leg kinematics and dynamics of the robot gait. One can examine a number of walking algorithms. The model includes: the identified description of the servo motors, ...

In this video the walking robot ‘Dribbel’ is presented, which has been built at the Control Engineering group of the University of Twente, the Netherlands. This robot has been designed with a focus on minimal energy consumption, using a passive dynamic approach. It is a so-called four-legged 2D walker; the use of four legs prevents it from falling sideways. During the design phase extensive use...

Biped walking remains a difficult problem, and robot models can greatly facilitate our understanding of the underlying biomechanical principles as well as their neuronal control. The goal of this study is to specifically demonstrate that stable biped walking can be achieved by combining the physical properties of the walking robot with a small, reflex-based neuronal network governed mainly by l...