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Humanoid Robots, Human-like Machines

Edited by: Matthias Hackel

ISBN 978-3-902613-07-3, Hard cover, 642 pages
Publisher: InTech
Publication date: June 2007
Subject: Humanoid Robotics

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.



Table of Contents

  1. Design of an Assistive Gait Device for Strength Endurance and Rehabilitation
    K. H. Low, Xiaopeng Liu and Haoyong Yu
    1397 views, 708 downloads
  2. Towards an Interactive Humanoid Companion with Visual Tracking Modalities
    Paulo Menezes, Frederic Lerasle, Jorge Dias and Thierry Germa
    1065 views, 313 downloads
  3. Methods for Environment Recognition Based on Active Behaviour Selection and Simple Sensor History
    Takahiro Miyashita, Reo Matsumura, Kazuhiko Shinozawa, Hiroshi Ishiguro and Norihiro Hagita
    1282 views, 343 downloads
  4. Simulation Study on Acquisition Process of Locomotion by Using an Infant Robot
    Katsuyoshi Tsujita and Tatsuya Masuda
    1119 views, 397 downloads
  5. Visual Attention and Distributed Processing of Visual Information for the Control of Humanoid Robots
    Ales Ude, Jan Moren and Gordon Cheng
    1125 views, 414 downloads
  6. Visual Guided Approach-to-Grasp for Humanoid Robots
    Yang Shen, De Xu, Min Tan and Ze-Min Jiang
    1012 views, 319 downloads
  7. Dexterous Humanoid Whole-Body Manipulation by Pivoting
    Eiichi Yoshida, Vincent Hugel, Pierre Blazevic, Kazuhito Yokoi and Kensuke Harada
    1207 views, 395 downloads
  8. Imitation Learning Based Talking Heads in Humanoid Robotics
    Enzo Mumolo and Massimiliano Nolich
    1171 views, 480 downloads
  9. Bilinear Time Delay Neural Network System for Humanoid Robot Software
    Fumio Nagashima
    1182 views, 376 downloads
  10. Robot Learning by Active Imitation
    Juan Pedro Bandera, Rebeca Marfil, Luis Molina Tanco, Juan Antonio Rodriguez, Antonio Bandera and Francisco Sandoval
    1064 views, 377 downloads
  11. Affective Communication Model with Multimodality for Humanoids
    Hyun Seung Yang, Yong-Ho Seo, Il-Woong Jeong and Ju-Ho Lee
    1304 views, 496 downloads
  12. Communication Robots in Real Environments
    Masahiro Shiomi, Takayuki Kanda, Hiroshi Ishiguro and Norihiro Hagita
    1081 views, 337 downloads
  13. Neural Control of Actions Involving Different Coordinate Systems
    Cornelius Weber, Mark Elshaw, Jochen Triesch and Stefan Wermter
    1039 views, 459 downloads
  14. Towards Tutoring an Interactive Robot
    Britta Wrede, Katharina J. Rohlfing, Thorsten P. Spexard and Jannik Fritsch
    1030 views, 305 downloads
  15. Intuitive Multimodal Interaction with Communication Robot Fritz
    Maren Bennewitz, Felix Faber, Dominik Joho and Sven Behnke
    1073 views, 367 downloads
  16. Generating Natural Motion in an Android by Mapping Human Motion
    Daisuke Matsui, Takashi Minato, Karl F. MacDorman and Hiroshi Ishiguro
    1250 views, 548 downloads
  17. Bipedal Walking Pattern Design by Synchronizing the Motions in the Sagittal and Lateral Planes
    Chi Zhu and Atsuo Kawamura
    1027 views, 377 downloads
  18. Mixed Logic Dynamical Modeling and On Line Optimal Control of Biped Robot
    Yingjie Yin and Shigeyuki Hosoe
    1150 views, 476 downloads
  19. A Novel Anthropomorphic Robot Hand and its Master Slave System
    Tetsuya Mouri and Haruhisa Kawasaki
    1290 views, 595 downloads
  20. Development of Biped Humanoid Robots at the Humanoid Robot Research Center, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
    Ill-Woo Park, Jung-Yup Kim, Jungho Lee, Min-Su Kim, Baek-Kyu Cho and Jun-Ho Oh
    1554 views, 874 downloads
  21. Multipurpose Low-Cost Humanoid Platform and Modular Control Software Development
    Filipe Silva and Vítor Santos
    1196 views, 491 downloads
  22. Artificial Muscles for Humanoid Robots
    Bertrand Tondu
    1317 views, 696 downloads
  23. Development of a CORBA-based Humanoid Robot and its Applications
    Yasuo Nasu, Genci Capi, Hanafiah Yussof, Mitsuhiro Yamano and Masahiro Ohka
    1292 views, 396 downloads
  24. Stability Analysis of a Simple Active Biped Robot with a Torso on Level Ground Based on Passive Walking Mechanisms
    Terumasa Narukawa, Masaki Takahashi and Kazuo Yoshida
    1227 views, 546 downloads
  25. Inertial Forces Posture Control for Humanoid Robots Locomotion
    Victor Nunez, Nelly Nadjar-Gauthier, Kazuhito Yokoi, Pierre Blazevic and Olivier Stasse
    1028 views, 372 downloads
  26. Towards Adaptive Control Strategy for Biped Robots
    Christophe Sabourin, Kurosh Madan and Olivier Bruneau
    1005 views, 357 downloads
  27. Reinforcement Learning of Stable Trajectory for Quasi-Passive Dynamic Walking of an Unstable Biped Robot
    Tomohiro Shibata, Kentarou Hitomoi, Yutaka Nakamura and Shin Ishii
    1157 views, 400 downloads
  28. An Adaptive Biped Gait Generation Scheme Utilizing Characteristics of Various Gaits
    Kengo Toda and Ken Tomiyama
    1073 views, 301 downloads
  29. Momentum Compensation for the Fast Dynamic Walk of Humanoids Based on the Pelvic Rotation of Contact Sport Athletes
    Jun Ueda, Kenji Shirae, Shingo Oda and Tsukasa Ogasawara
    1021 views, 379 downloads
  30. Vision-based Motion Control of a Biped Robot Using 2 DOF Gaze Control Structure
    Shun Ushida and Koichiro Deguchi
    1240 views, 848 downloads
  31. Limit Cycle Walking
    Daan G.E. Hobbelen and Martijn Wisse
    1441 views, 485 downloads
  32. A Human-Like Approach to Footstep Planning
    Yasar Ayaz, Khalid Munawar, Mohammad Bilal Malik, Atsushi Konno and Masaru Uchiyama
    1212 views, 432 downloads
  33. Hierarchical Reactive Control for Soccer Playing Humanoid Robots
    Sven Behnke, Jorg Stuckler, Hauke Strasdat and Michael Schreiber
    1418 views, 436 downloads