Essay On Humanoid Robotics

Abstract

Humanoid Robotics is a new and challenging research field which received significant attention since 1970s and will continue to play a vital role in robotics research and in many applications of the 21 century. Regardless of the application area, one of the common problem tackled in humanoid robotics is the understanding of human like information processing and the underlying mechanism of the human brain in dealing with the real world. Considerable progress have been made in humanoid research resulting in a number of humanoid robots able to move and perform well designed tasks. Over the past decade in humanoid research, an emerging spectrum of science and engineering has emerged that leads to the development of highly advanced humanoid systems endowed with rich and complex sensorimotor capabilities. Of major importance for advances in the field is without doubt the availability of reproducible humanoid robots systems, which have been used in the last years as common hardware and software platform to support humanoid research. Many technical innovations and remarkable results by universities, research institutions and companies are visible

In it artificial muscles made of rubber were attached as actuators. Planar biped locomotion was realized by teaching playback control of its artificial muscles. In the second model, the WAP-2 the powerful pouch type artificial muscles were used as actuators. Automatic posture control was obtained by implanting pressure sensor under the soles. The WAP-3 a refined model of the WAP-2 was able to move its center of gravity on the frontal plane so that it was able to not only walk on a flat surface but also descend and ascend a staircase or slop and turn while walking. A controller based on memory directed the WAP-3 and its actuator was driven by PWM. The three dimensional automatic biped walking realized by the WAP-3 was the first robot in the