A small biped entertainment robot exploring attractive applications

Author

Kuroki, Yoshihiro ; Fujita, Masahiro ; Ishida, Tatsuzo ; Nagasaka, Kenichiro ; Yamaguchi, Jin Ichi

Author_Institution

Digital Creatures Lab., Sony Corp., Tokyo, Japan

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

14-19 Sept. 2003

Firstpage

471

Abstract

SDR-4X is the latest prototype model, which remains a small humanoid type robot and is expanding its capabilities for the adaptability in home environment. Some of the new key technologies have been developed for SDR-4X. The first is newly developed small robot actuators named ISA-4, the second is real-time integrated adaptive motion control. The third is a motion creating software system, which allows us to create SDR´s attractive motion performances. The fourth technology is real-time real-world space perception, and the fifth is multi-modal human robot interaction. These five technologies enable to realize a capable robot that can be adopted with human in home environment. In addition, we have explored and developed entertainment applications using these technologies. A cappella chorus performance and a high-tempo dance performance are introduced as the attractive applications.

Keywords

actuators; adaptive control; collision avoidance; face recognition; legged locomotion; motion control; speech recognition; ISA-4; SDR-4X prototype; attractive applications; autonomous behavior control; cappella chorus performance; high-tempo dance performance; home environment; humanoid robots; image recognition; multiface detection; multimodal human robot interaction; obstacle avoidance; path planning; real-time integrated adaptive motion control; small biped entertainment robot; small robot actuators; software system; space perception; speech recognition; Actuators; Adaptive control; Human robot interaction; Humanoid robots; Motion control; Orbital robotics; Programmable control; Prototypes; Software systems; Space technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics and Automation, 2003. Proceedings. ICRA '03. IEEE International Conference on

ISSN

1050-4729

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7736-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROBOT.2003.1241639

Filename

1241639