This paper describes embedded system for the international small-sized league RoboCub soccer team. The constraint of robot size and the range of robot functions imply a complex design of a high performance system in a very small package. The main feature of the design is the integration of multiple functions including a softcore processor into a single Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) devi...

A second prototype of biped walking robot, named as EPWAR2 (Electropneumatic WAlking Robot), has been designed and built at LARM (Laboratory of Robotics and Mechatronics) in Cassino. In addition to the performances of previous prototype EP-WAR, EP-WAR2 is able to climb stairs because of a new actuation system. A suitable programming of the PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) has been based on s...

Abstract Social robots and administration with social insights are beginning to coordinate into our regular day activities. Managing health care needs of the patients collaborate person-centered healthcare. Untimed medications can cause serious issues for in hospitals old age nursing homes. The proposed work is intended assist these providing or recommending necessary medication correct order a...

Robot imitation is a useful and promising alternative to robot programming. Robot imitation involves two crucial issues. The first is how a robot can imitate a human whose physical structure and properties differ greatly from its own. The second is how the robot can generate various motions from finite programmable patterns (generalization). This paper describes a novel approach to robot imitat...

Bioinspired Continuum Robots In article number 2201616, Ji Liu, Haijun Peng, Jianing Wu, and co-workers present a three-segment continuum robot constructed by class-3 tensegrity structure, inspired the mechanism of an elephant trunk for regulating local stiffness. It relies on stiffness tunable material to achieve robotic programmable characteristics. This study may provide foundation potential...

Robotic control is currently an exciting and highly challenging research focus. Several solutions for implementing the control architecture for robots have been proposed (Kabuka et al., 1988; Yasuda, 2000; Li et al., 2003; Oh et al., 2003). Kabuka et al. (1998) apply two highperformance floating-point signal processors and a set of dedicated motion controllers to build a control system for a si...

Learning gaits for walking robots is difficult because the elements of control require repetition of a sequence of integrated steps. Controllers for the six-legged robots, such as the Stiquito, and the eight-legged spider robots, in development, exemplify the difficulties of evolving gaits. The controllers for these robots store the actuator commands in a field-programmable gate array as a list...

Social interaction is essential in improving robot human interface. Such behaviors for social interaction may include to pay attention to a new sound source, to move toward it, or to keep face to face with a moving speaker. Some sound-centered behaviors may be difficult to attain, because the mixture of sounds is not well treated or auditory processing is too slow for real-time applications. Re...