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Humanoid Robots: New Developments

Edited by: Armando Carlos de Pina Filho

ISBN 978-3-902613-00-4, Hard cover, 582 pages
Publisher: InTech
Publication date: June 2007
Subject: Humanoid Robotics

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.



Table of Contents

  1. Design of Modules and Components for Humanoid Robots
    Albert Albers, Sven Brudniok, Jens Ottnad, Christian Sauter and Korkiat Sedchaicharn
    2194 views, 1047 downloads
  2. Copycat Hand - Robot Hand Generating Imitative Behaviour at High Speed and with High Accuracy
    Kiyoshi Hoshino
    1455 views, 521 downloads
  3. Energy-Efficient Walking for Biped Robot Using Self-Excited Mechanism and Optimal Trajectory Planning
    Qingjiu Huang and Kyosuke Ono
    1918 views, 844 downloads
  4. Geminoid: Teleoperated Android of an Existing Person
    Shuichi Nishio, Hiroshi Ishiguro and Norihiro Hagita
    2151 views, 840 downloads
  5. Obtaining Humanoid Robot Controller Using Reinforcement Learning
    Masayoshi Kanoh and Hidenori Itoh
    1647 views, 528 downloads
  6. Reinforcement Learning Algorithms in Humanoid Robotics
    Dusko Katic and Miomir Vukobratovic
    1541 views, 673 downloads
  7. A Designing of Humanoid Robot Hands in Endo Skeleton and Exoskeleton Styles
    Ichiro Kawabuchi
    2069 views, 1046 downloads
  8. Assessment of the Impressions of Robot Bodily Expressions Using Electroencephalogram Measurement of Brain Activity
    A. Khiat, M. Toyota, Y. Matsumoto and T. Ogasawara
    1296 views, 473 downloads
  9. Advanced Humanoid Robot Based on the Evolutionary Inductive Self-Organizing Network
    Dongwon Kim and Gwi-Tae Park
    1416 views, 502 downloads
  10. Balance-Keeping Control of Upright Standing in Biped Human Beings and its Application for Stability Assessment
    Yifa Jiang Hidenori Kimura
    1712 views, 870 downloads
  11. Experiments on Embodied Cognition: A Bio-Inspired Approach for Robust Biped Locomotion
    Frank Kirchner, Sebastian Bartsch and Jose DeGea
    1552 views, 607 downloads
  12. A Human Body Model for Articulated 3D Pose Tracking
    Steffen Knoop, Stefan Vacek and Rudiger Dillmann
    2172 views, 903 downloads
  13. Drum Beating and a Martial Art Bojutsu Performed by a Humanoid Robot
    Atsushi Konno, Takaaki Matsumoto, Yu Ishida, Daisuke Sato and Masaru Uchiyama
    1563 views, 553 downloads
  14. On Foveated Gaze Control and Combined Gaze and Locomotion Planning
    Kolja Kuhnlenz, Georgios Lidoris, Dirk Wollherr and Martin Buss
    1263 views, 403 downloads
  15. Vertical Jump: Biomechanical Analysis and Simulation Study
    Jan Babic and Jadran Lenarcic
    5480 views, 2575 downloads
  16. Central Pattern Generators for Gait Generation in Bipedal Robots
    Almir Heralic, Krister Wolff and Mattias Wahde
    1874 views, 715 downloads
  17. Sticky Hands
    Joshua G. Hale and Frank E. Pollick
    1185 views, 419 downloads
  18. Gait Transition from Quadrupedal to Bipedal Locomotion of an Oscillator-driven Biped Robot
    Shinya Aoi and Kazuo Tsuchiya
    1320 views, 606 downloads
  19. Estimation of the Absolute Orientation of a Five-Link Walking Robot with Passive Feet
    Yannick Aoustin, Gaetan Garcia and Philippe Lemoine
    1316 views, 452 downloads
  20. Teaching a Robotic Child - Machine Learning Strategies for a Humanoid Robot from Social Interactions
    Artur Arsenio
    1517 views, 462 downloads
  21. Biped Gait Generation and Control Based on Mechanical Energy Constraint
    Fumihiko Asano, Masaki Yamakita, Norihiro Kamamichi and Zhi-Wei Luo
    1458 views, 463 downloads
  22. Dynamic Simulation of Single and Combined Trajectory Path Generation and Control of A Seven Link Biped Robot
    Ahmad Bagheri
    1299 views, 444 downloads
  23. Analytical Criterions for the Generation of Highly Dynamic Gaits for Humanoid Robots: Dynamic Propulsion Criterion and Dynamic Propulsion Potential
    Olivier Bruneau and Anthony David
    1237 views, 362 downloads
  24. Design of a Humanoid Robot Eye
    Giorgio Cannata and Marco Maggiali
    2021 views, 907 downloads
  25. Multicriteria Optimal Humanoid Robot Motion Generation
    Genci Capi, Yasuo Nasu, Mitsuhiro Yamano and Kazuhisa Mitobe
    1289 views, 483 downloads
  26. An Incremental Fuzzy Algorithm for the Balance of Humanoid Robots
    Erik Cuevas, Daniel Zaldivar, Ernesto Tapia and Raul Rojas
    1687 views, 711 downloads
  27. Spoken Language and Vision for Adaptive Human-Robot Cooperation
    Peter Ford Dominey
    1317 views, 444 downloads
  28. Collision-Free Humanoid Reaching: Past, Present and Future
    Evan Drumwright and Maja Mataric
    2521 views, 989 downloads
  29. Minimum Energy Trajectory Planning for Biped Robots
    Yasutaka Fujimoto
    1540 views, 540 downloads
  30. Real-Time Vision Based Mouth Tracking and Parameterization for a Humanoid Imitation Task
    Sabri Gurbuz, Naomi Inoue and Gordon Cheng
    1657 views, 654 downloads
  31. Clustered Regression Control of a Biped Robot Model
    Olli Haavisto and Heikki Hyotyniemi
    1573 views, 587 downloads
  32. Planning Versatile Motions for Humanoid in a Complex Environment
    Tsai-Yen Li and Pei-Zhi Huang
    1138 views, 345 downloads