Humanoid robot tele-operated from home page aimed for elementary school science education

Author

Takahashi, Y. ; Uehara, Kazuhiro

Author_Institution

Dept. of Syst. Design Eng, Kanagawa Inst. of Technol., Atsugi, Japan

Volume

4

fYear

2002

fDate

5-7 Aug. 2002

Firstpage

2364

Abstract

A humanoid robot which is tele-operated from an Internet home page is proposed in this paper. The purpose of the robot system is to encourage elementary school children who live in the countryside or have handicaps to study Science. The proposed robot system will provide them with an opportunity to operate a real robot system from their house or hospital. The tele-operation is so easy that a user just clicks control buttons while watching the shape of the robot system on a personal computer display. A mobile robot system with two arms has been fabricated. The concepts of the robot system, the mechanical system design, the control system design, and the tele-operation system using the Internet are presented. The operational experiments by elementary school children are also presented in order to evaluate the robot system.

Keywords

Internet; computer aided instruction; legged locomotion; student experiments; telerobotics; Internet; Internet home page; control system design; elementary school science education; handicapped children; mechanical system design; mobile robot system; personal computer display; tele-operated humanoid robot; tele-operation system; Computer displays; Control systems; Educational institutions; Hospitals; Humanoid robots; Internet; Manipulators; Microcomputers; Mobile robots; Shape control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

SICE 2002. Proceedings of the 41st SICE Annual Conference

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7631-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SICE.2002.1195778

Filename

1195778