Humanoid robot is a type of robot that the overall appearance is based on that of the human body. Humanoid robots include a rich diversity of projects where perception, processing and action are embodied in a recognizably anthropomorphic form in order to emulate some subset of the physical, cognitive and social dimensions of the human body and experience. The research on humanoid robots spans f...

Controlling biped robots in a human-like way is still in the air in robotics. Due to the existing of shortcomings of technical control methods, researchers began to try to find help from biomechanics, neuroscience, human movement analysis and other biological fields. This paper presents a biologically inspired method of controlling the locomotion of biped robots based on the neurological and bi...

Biped robots have better mobility than conventional wheeled robots. The bio-inspired method based on a central pattern generator (CPG) can be used to control biped robot walking in a manner like human beings. However, to achieve stable locomotion, it is difficult to modulate the parameters for the neural networks to coordinate every degree of freedom of the walking robot. The zero moment point ...

In this paper, stable bipedal locomotion has been achieved using coupled evolution of morphology and control on a 5link biped robot in a physics-based simulation environment. The robot was controlled by a closed loop recurrent neural network controller. The goal was to study the effect of macroscopic, midrange and microscopic changes in mass distribution along the biped skeleton to ascertain wh...

The design of a simple biped robot primarily involves the control of balance. Controlling the direction of balance for a two legged walking robot typically means mimicking the human form and its walking locomotion. Even though the human locomotion approach is taken as the ultimate reference, gaits can be developed using less sophisticated methods. The ultimate aim is to maintain an upright tors...

Humans have an extremely redundant system for locomotion. To handle the redundancy problem, humans use coordinative structures using conditions of constraint in their joint movements to reduce the number of degrees of freedom, which is called kinematic synergy. This chapter shows some characteristics in the kinematic synergy in human locomotion and shows a locomotion control system for a biped ...

Human locomotion is extremely adaptive and robust to changes in environment, body size, and morphology. The control of this highly adaptive system is thought to be performed by central pattern generators , supported by a system of sensorimotor connections called reflexes. Several studies on central pattern generators have been conducted, alone and in concert with reflexes. However, controllers ...

The interest in biped robots has highly increased in the last few years. The availability of cheap and advanced actuators and electronic controllers allowed the realization of many biped systems. There are some very famous humanoid robots, like the SONY SDR3X, or the HONDA Asimo. But there are also a lot of other biped robots at university research level. Many control strategy have been propose...