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Humanoid Robots

Author : Dragomir N. Nenchev
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN 13 : 0128045825
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)

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Book Synopsis Humanoid Robots by : Dragomir N. Nenchev

Download or read book Humanoid Robots written by Dragomir N. Nenchev and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 2018-11-21 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humanoid Robots: Modeling and Control provides systematic presentation of the models used in the analysis, design and control of humanoid robots. The book starts with a historical overview of the field, a summary of the current state of the art achievements and an outline of the related fields of research. It moves on to explain the theoretical foundations in terms of kinematic, kineto-static and dynamic relations. Further on, a detailed overview of biped balance control approaches is presented. Models and control algorithms for cooperative object manipulation with a multi-finger hand, a dual-arm and a multi-robot system are also discussed. One of the chapters is devoted to selected topics from the area of motion generation and control and their applications. The final chapter focuses on simulation environments, specifically on the step-by-step design of a simulator using the Matlab® environment and tools. This book will benefit readers with an advanced level of understanding of robotics, mechanics and control such as graduate students, academic and industrial researchers and professional engineers. Researchers in the related fields of multi-legged robots, biomechanics, physical therapy and physics-based computer animation of articulated figures can also benefit from the models and computational algorithms presented in the book. Provides a firm theoretical basis for modelling and control algorithm design Gives a systematic presentation of models and control algorithms Contains numerous implementation examples demonstrated with 43 video clips

Humanoid Robots

Author : Mary Lindeen
Publisher : Lerner Publications ™
ISBN 13 : 1512470740
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (124 download)

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Book Synopsis Humanoid Robots by : Mary Lindeen

Download or read book Humanoid Robots written by Mary Lindeen and published by Lerner Publications ™. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humanoid robots can help us learn. They can go places humans can't, such as deep underwater, sending back information we never knew before. Humanoid robots can also aid in search and rescue—they are able to easily cross rough landscapes and carry heavy supplies. Discover how this cutting-edge technology was first created, and explore what kind of functions humanoid robots will perform in the future.

Humanoid Robots

Author : Armando Carlos De Pina Filho
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3902613009
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (26 download)

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Book Synopsis Humanoid Robots by : Armando Carlos De Pina Filho

Download or read book Humanoid Robots written by Armando Carlos De Pina Filho and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many years, the human being has been trying, in all ways, to recreate the complex mechanisms that form the human body. Such task is extremely complicated and the results are not totally satisfactory. However, with increasing technological advances based on theoretical and experimental researches, man gets, in a way, to copy or to imitate some systems of the human body. These researches not only intended to create humanoid robots, great part of them constituting autonomous systems, but also, in some way, to offer a higher knowledge of the systems that form the human body, objectifying possible applications in the technology of rehabilitation of human beings, gathering in a whole studies related not only to Robotics, but also to Biomechanics, Biomimmetics, Cybernetics, among other areas. This book presents a series of researches inspired by this ideal, carried through by various researchers worldwide, looking for to analyze and to discuss diverse subjects related to humanoid robots. The presented contributions explore aspects about robotic hands, learning, language, vision and locomotion.

Humanoid

Author : Max Aguilera-Hellweg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780922233472
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (334 download)

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Book Synopsis Humanoid by : Max Aguilera-Hellweg

Download or read book Humanoid written by Max Aguilera-Hellweg and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first and only book of portraits of android and humanoid robots. The robots in these photographs by Max Aguilera-Hellweg, a photojournalist for 40 years whose work has appeared in Life, NYT Magazine, Rolling Stone, Discover, Scientific American, Time, and National Geographic, are some of the most well known in the world of humanoid robotics. The photographs explore the many ways scientists and engineers are creating robots with human attributes, qualities, and abilities, and the means by which the robots engage us in what is known as human-robot interaction. The relationship of humans to robots can be as subtle as nonverbal communication; as intuitive as whether you should pass someone on the left or pass on the right to avoid sidewalk salsa; as intimate as developing an affectionate personal relationship with a machine, or as never before conceived of, but now as important as life and death--autonomous robots programmed for ethical decision making in the battlefield. Author and photographer Max Aguilera-Hellweg has embarked on a journey through Japan and the United States to explore the turning point in the evolution of robot science, where robots are becoming more like humans, crossing the great divide between data processing and sentience. Humanoid's breathtaking photographs present android robots designed to look and act like a human, beyond the imaginary Data from the TV series Star Trek, Pris, the replicant (played by Daryl Hannah) in the movie Blade Runner, or the "synths" of the hit TV series Humans. Some of the humanoid robots portrayed in this profound book, such as Bina48, Joey Chaos, and Geminoid-F have humanlike skin, hair, hands, even fingernails--they have been created to resemble with extreme accuracy an actual human being. Other humanoids are devoid of such external attributes but replicate the anatomy of a human--arms, legs, torso, a head and eyes--like, for example, the Terminator, not as Arnold Schwarzenegger but when he is all machine. Some of Aguilera-Hellweg's photographs reveal the different ways robot scientists approach the same engineering and design problem. BioBiped1, for instance, a humanoid based on biomimetics, comprised of a torso and pair of legs, has joints and moving parts modeled on human biology and systems, harnessing what nature has solved. Another such humanoid, aptly named Vocal Robot, consists of a pair of artificial lungs and a vocal chord from which it speaks. During the creation of many of these photos, an hour-long documentary, Au Couer des Robots (In the Heart of Robots), was shot. The English-language version is in postproduction and will soon seek distribution here and internationally. Max Aguilera-Hellweg's astonishing, gorgeous photography open our eyes to this brave new world in which humanoid robots--exciting, thrilling, frightening to some, strange to others, controversial, lifesaving--will change our lives in countless ways.

Introduction to Humanoid Robotics

Author : Shuuji Kajita
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 364254536X
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)

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Book Synopsis Introduction to Humanoid Robotics by : Shuuji Kajita

Download or read book Introduction to Humanoid Robotics written by Shuuji Kajita and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is for researchers, engineers, and students who are willing to understand how humanoid robots move and be controlled. The book starts with an overview of the humanoid robotics research history and state of the art. Then it explains the required mathematics and physics such as kinematics of multi-body system, Zero-Moment Point (ZMP) and its relationship with body motion. Biped walking control is discussed in depth, since it is one of the main interests of humanoid robotics. Various topics of the whole body motion generation are also discussed. Finally multi-body dynamics is presented to simulate the complete dynamic behavior of a humanoid robot. Throughout the book, Matlab codes are shown to test the algorithms and to help the reader ́s understanding.

Humanoid Robots

Author : Matthias Hackel
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3902613076
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (26 download)

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Book Synopsis Humanoid Robots by : Matthias Hackel

Download or read book Humanoid Robots written by Matthias Hackel and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book the variety of humanoid robotic research can be obtained. This book is divided in four parts: Hardware Development: Components and Systems, Biped Motion: Walking, Running and Self-orientation, Sensing the Environment: Acquisition, Data Processing and Control and Mind Organisation: Learning and Interaction. The first part of the book deals with remarkable hardware developments, whereby complete humanoid robotic systems are as well described as partial solutions. In the second part diverse results around the biped motion of humanoid robots are presented. The autonomous, efficient and adaptive two-legged walking is one of the main challenge in humanoid robotics. The two-legged walking will enable humanoid robots to enter our environment without rearrangement. Developments in the field of visual sensors, data acquisition, processing and control are to be observed in third part of the book. In the fourth part some "mind building" and communication technologies are presented.

Motion Planning for Humanoid Robots

Author : Kensuke Harada
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1849962200
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (499 download)

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Book Synopsis Motion Planning for Humanoid Robots by : Kensuke Harada

Download or read book Motion Planning for Humanoid Robots written by Kensuke Harada and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-08-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research on humanoid robots has been mostly with the aim of developing robots that can replace humans in the performance of certain tasks. Motion planning for these robots can be quite difficult, due to their complex kinematics, dynamics and environment. It is consequently one of the key research topics in humanoid robotics research and the last few years have witnessed considerable progress in the field. Motion Planning for Humanoid Robots surveys the remarkable recent advancement in both the theoretical and the practical aspects of humanoid motion planning. Various motion planning frameworks are presented in Motion Planning for Humanoid Robots, including one for skill coordination and learning, and one for manipulating and grasping tasks. The problem of planning sequences of contacts that support acyclic motion in a highly constrained environment is addressed and a motion planner that enables a humanoid robot to push an object to a desired location on a cluttered table is described. The main areas of interest include: • whole body motion planning, • task planning, • biped gait planning, and • sensor feedback for motion planning. Torque-level control of multi-contact behavior, autonomous manipulation of moving obstacles, and movement control and planning architecture are also covered. Motion Planning for Humanoid Robots will help readers to understand the current research on humanoid motion planning. It is written for industrial engineers, advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Becoming Human with Humanoid

Author : Ahmad Hoirul Basori
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 1789854830
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (898 download)

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Book Synopsis Becoming Human with Humanoid by : Ahmad Hoirul Basori

Download or read book Becoming Human with Humanoid written by Ahmad Hoirul Basori and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-03-25 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nowadays, our expectations of robots have been significantly increases. The robot, which was initially only doing simple jobs, is now expected to be smarter and more dynamic. People want a robot that resembles a human (humanoid) has and has emotional intelligence that can perform action-reaction interactions. This book consists of two sections. The first section focuses on emotional intelligence, while the second section discusses the control of robotics. The contents of the book reveal the outcomes of research conducted by scholars in robotics fields to accommodate needs of society and industry.

Evolutionary Humanoid Robotics

Author : Malachy Eaton
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3662445999
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book Evolutionary Humanoid Robotics written by Malachy Eaton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-02-02 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how two distinct strands of research on autonomous robots, evolutionary robotics and humanoid robot research, are converging. The book will be valuable for researchers and postgraduate students working in the areas of evolutionary robotics and bio-inspired computing.

Collaborative and Humanoid Robots

Author : Jesus Hamilton Ortiz
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 1839687398
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (396 download)

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Book Synopsis Collaborative and Humanoid Robots by : Jesus Hamilton Ortiz

Download or read book Collaborative and Humanoid Robots written by Jesus Hamilton Ortiz and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-09-29 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collaborative and Humanoid Robots guides readers through the fundamentals and state-of-the-art concepts and future expectations of robotics. It showcases interesting research topics on robots and cobots by researchers, industry practitioners, and academics. Divided into two sections on “Collaborative Robots” and “Humanoid Robots,” this book includes surveys of recent publications that investigative the interaction between humanoid robots and humans; safe adaptive trajectory tracking control of robots; 3D printed, self-learning robots; robot trajectory, guidance, and control; social robots; Tiny Blind assistive humanoid robots; and more.

Whole-Body Control for Multi-Contact Balancing of Humanoid Robots

Author : Bernd Henze
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030872122
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Book Synopsis Whole-Body Control for Multi-Contact Balancing of Humanoid Robots by : Bernd Henze

Download or read book Whole-Body Control for Multi-Contact Balancing of Humanoid Robots written by Bernd Henze and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-03 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims at providing algorithms for balance control of legged, torque-controlled humanoid robots. A humanoid robot normally uses the feet for locomotion. This paradigm is extended by addressing the challenge of multi-contact balancing, which allows a humanoid robot to exploit an arbitrary number of contacts for support. Using multiple contacts increases the size of the support polygon, which in turn leads to an increased robustness of the stance and to an increased kinematic workspace of the robot. Both are important features for facilitating a transition of humanoid robots from research laboratories to real-world applications, where they are confronted with multiple challenging scenarios, such as climbing stairs and ladders, traversing debris, handling heavy loads, or working in confined spaces. The distribution of forces and torques among the multiple contacts is a challenging aspect of the problem, which arises from the closed kinematic chain given by the robot and its environment.

Visual Perception for Humanoid Robots

Author : David Israel González Aguirre
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319978411
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Book Synopsis Visual Perception for Humanoid Robots by : David Israel González Aguirre

Download or read book Visual Perception for Humanoid Robots written by David Israel González Aguirre and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an overview of model-based environmental visual perception for humanoid robots. The visual perception of a humanoid robot creates a bidirectional bridge connecting sensor signals with internal representations of environmental objects. The objective of such perception systems is to answer two fundamental questions: What & where is it? To answer these questions using a sensor-to-representation bridge, coordinated processes are conducted to extract and exploit cues matching robot’s mental representations to physical entities. These include sensor & actuator modeling, calibration, filtering, and feature extraction for state estimation. This book discusses the following topics in depth: • Active Sensing: Robust probabilistic methods for optimal, high dynamic range image acquisition are suitable for use with inexpensive cameras. This enables ideal sensing in arbitrary environmental conditions encountered in human-centric spaces. The book quantitatively shows the importance of equipping robots with dependable visual sensing. • Feature Extraction & Recognition: Parameter-free, edge extraction methods based on structural graphs enable the representation of geometric primitives effectively and efficiently. This is done by eccentricity segmentation providing excellent recognition even on noisy & low-resolution images. Stereoscopic vision, Euclidean metric and graph-shape descriptors are shown to be powerful mechanisms for difficult recognition tasks. • Global Self-Localization & Depth Uncertainty Learning: Simultaneous feature matching for global localization and 6D self-pose estimation are addressed by a novel geometric and probabilistic concept using intersection of Gaussian spheres. The path from intuition to the closed-form optimal solution determining the robot location is described, including a supervised learning method for uncertainty depth modeling based on extensive ground-truth training data from a motion capture system. The methods and experiments are presented in self-contained chapters with comparisons and the state of the art. The algorithms were implemented and empirically evaluated on two humanoid robots: ARMAR III-A & B. The excellent robustness, performance and derived results received an award at the IEEE conference on humanoid robots and the contributions have been utilized for numerous visual manipulation tasks with demonstration at distinguished venues such as ICRA, CeBIT, IAS, and Automatica.

The DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals: Humanoid Robots To The Rescue

Author : Matthew Spenko
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319746669
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Book Synopsis The DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals: Humanoid Robots To The Rescue by : Matthew Spenko

Download or read book The DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals: Humanoid Robots To The Rescue written by Matthew Spenko and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-09 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The DARPA Robotics Challenge was a robotics competition that took place in Pomona, California USA in June 2015. The competition was the culmination of 33 months of demanding work by 23 teams and required humanoid robots to perform challenging locomotion and manipulation tasks in a mock disaster site. The challenge was conceived as a response to the Japanese Fukushima nuclear disaster of March 2011. The Fukushima disaster was seen as an ideal candidate for robotic intervention since the risk of exposure to radiation prevented human responders from accessing the site. This volume, edited by Matthew Spenko, Stephen Buerger, and Karl Iagnemma, includes commentary by the organizers, overall analysis of the results, and documentation of the technical efforts of 15 competing teams. The book provides an important record of the successes and failures involved in the DARPA Robotics Challenge and provides guidance for future needs to be addressed by policy makers, funding agencies, and the robotics research community. Many of the papers in this volume were initially published in a series of special issues of the Journal of Field Robotics. We have proudly collected versions of those papers in this STAR volume.

Software Architectures for Humanoid Robotics

Author : Lorenzo Natale
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2889455904
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (894 download)

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Download or read book Software Architectures for Humanoid Robotics written by Lorenzo Natale and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Biologically Inspired Control of Humanoid Robot Arms

Author : Adam Spiers
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319301608
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)

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Book Synopsis Biologically Inspired Control of Humanoid Robot Arms by : Adam Spiers

Download or read book Biologically Inspired Control of Humanoid Robot Arms written by Adam Spiers and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates a biologically inspired method of robot arm control, developed with the objective of synthesising human-like motion dynamically, using nonlinear, robust and adaptive control techniques in practical robot systems. The control method caters to a rising interest in humanoid robots and the need for appropriate control schemes to match these systems. Unlike the classic kinematic schemes used in industrial manipulators, the dynamic approaches proposed here promote human-like motion with better exploitation of the robot’s physical structure. This also benefits human-robot interaction. The control schemes proposed in this book are inspired by a wealth of human-motion literature that indicates the drivers of motion to be dynamic, model-based and optimal. Such considerations lend themselves nicely to achievement via nonlinear control techniques without the necessity for extensive and complex biological models. The operational-space method of robot control forms the basis of many of the techniques investigated in this book. The method includes attractive features such as the decoupling of motion into task and posture components. Various developments are made in each of these elements. Simple cost functions inspired by biomechanical “effort” and “discomfort” generate realistic posture motion. Sliding-mode techniques overcome robustness shortcomings for practical implementation. Arm compliance is achieved via a method of model-free adaptive control that also deals with actuator saturation via anti-windup compensation. A neural-network-centered learning-by-observation scheme generates new task motions, based on motion-capture data recorded from human volunteers. In other parts of the book, motion capture is used to test theories of human movement. All developed controllers are applied to the reaching motion of a humanoid robot arm and are demonstrated to be practically realisable. This book is designed to be of interest to those wishing to achieve dynamics-based human-like robot-arm motion in academic research, advanced study or certain industrial environments. The book provides motivations, extensive reviews, research results and detailed explanations. It is not only suited to practising control engineers, but also applicable for general roboticists who wish to develop control systems expertise in this area.

Human-Inspired Balancing and Recovery Stepping for Humanoid Robots

Author : Kaul, Lukas Sebastian
Publisher : KIT Scientific Publishing
ISBN 13 : 3731509032
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Human-Inspired Balancing and Recovery Stepping for Humanoid Robots written by Kaul, Lukas Sebastian and published by KIT Scientific Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robustly maintaining balance on two legs is an important challenge for humanoid robots. The work presented in this book represents a contribution to this area. It investigates efficient methods for the decision-making from internal sensors about whether and where to step, several improvements to efficient whole-body postural balancing methods, and proposes and evaluates a novel method for efficient recovery step generation, leveraging human examples and simulation-based reinforcement learning.

Toward Humanoid Robots: The Role of Fuzzy Sets

Author : Cengiz Kahraman
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030671631
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Book Synopsis Toward Humanoid Robots: The Role of Fuzzy Sets by : Cengiz Kahraman

Download or read book Toward Humanoid Robots: The Role of Fuzzy Sets written by Cengiz Kahraman and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-04 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive reference guide for modeling humanoid robots using intelligent and fuzzy systems. It provides readers with the necessary intelligent and fuzzy tools for controlling humanoid robots by incomplete, vague, and imprecise information or insufficient data, where classical modeling approaches cannot be applied. The respective chapters, written by prominent researchers, explain a wealth of both basic and advanced concepts including fuzzy control, metaheuristic-based control, neutrosophic control, etc. To foster reader comprehension, all chapters include relevant numerical examples or case studies. Taken together, they form an excellent reference guide for researchers, lecturers, and postgraduate students pursuing research on humanoid robots. Moreover, by extending all the main aspects of humanoid robots to its intelligent and fuzzy counterparts, the book presents a dynamic snapshot of the field that is expected to stimulate new directions, ideas, and developments.