Development of human symbiotic robot: WENDY

Author

Morita, Toshio ; Iwata, Hiroyasu ; Sugano, Shigeki

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. Eng., Waseda Univ., Tokyo, Japan

Volume

4

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

3183

Abstract

An objective of this study is to find out design requirements for developing human symbiotic robots, which share working space with humans, and have the ability of carrying out physical, informational, and psychological interaction. The paper mainly describes design strategies of the human symbiotic robots, through the development of a test model of the robots, WENDY (Waseda ENgineering Designed sYmbiont). In order to develop WENDY, mobility and dexterity of a humanoid robot Hadaly-2, which was developed in 1997, are improved on. The performances of WENDY are evaluated by experiments of object transport and egg breaking, which require high level integration of the whole body system

Keywords

dexterous manipulators; man-machine systems; mobile robots; safety; Hadaly-2; WENDY; Waseda Engineering designed symbiont; design requirements; dexterity; egg breaking; human symbiotic robot; humanoid robot; informational interaction; mobility; object transport; physical interaction; psychological interaction; Design engineering; Human robot interaction; Humanoid robots; Legged locomotion; Manipulators; Orbital robotics; Robot kinematics; Safety; Service robots; Symbiosis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics and Automation, 1999. Proceedings. 1999 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Detroit, MI

ISSN

1050-4729

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5180-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROBOT.1999.774083

Filename

774083