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Foundations of Robotics Seminar, April 18, 2012
Time
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ASIMO version 3
Takashi Bannai
President
Honda Research Institute USA
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
NSH 3305
Talk 11:00 am
A New ASIMO humanoid robot was developed in an effort to realize a
robot that can coexist with
and assist people in society. The objective of the development is to
improve situation awareness
and autonomy in real environment. Technologies such as multi-modal
sensing, situation estimation
and prediction, and autonomous action generation were newly developed
so that ASIMO can operate
adaptively in dynamically changing situations. We also developed a
13-axis hand whose five fingers
can be independently controlled. To operate continuously among humans,
movement quickness was
improved by reducing body weight incorporating newly designed high
performance electronic hardware.
As a result, the following enhancements were achieved: ASIMO can
autonomously start interaction with
humans and change its action according to human response; ASIMO can
walk in crowded situations,
and walk on bumpy floor; ASIMO can grasp some target objects robustly,
and manipulate them
with its sensitive fingers.
The Robotics Institute is part of the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University.