This paper presents the modifications needed to adapt a humanoid agent architecture and behaviors from simulation to a real robot. The experiments were conducted using the Aldebaran Nao robot model. The agent architecture was adapted from the RoboCup 3D Simulation League to the Standard Platform League with as few changes as possible. The reasons for the modifications include small differences ...

Industrial robot manipulators are general-purpose machines used for industrial automation in order to increase productivity, flexibility, and quality. Other reasons for using industrial robots are cost saving, and elimination of heavy and health-hazardous work. Robot motion control is a key competence for robot manufacturers, and the current development is focused on increasing the robot perfor...

ButlerBot is a robotic butler created to cater to people’s questions at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2003 conference and to escort people to desired destinations. The three main areas of research focused on in ButlerBot, the Stony Brook Robot Design Team’s new robot created for the American Association of Artificial Intelligence's (AAAI) Robot Host compe...

Physical therapists are trained in manual examination techniques to test the impaired motor functions of patients. In this study, we have introduced a wearable robotic dummy joint to simulate disordered joint resistances or behaviors to support physical therapists in learning such techniques. We developed a discontinuous joint friction model based on a stick-slip phenomenon to simulate knee joi...

The goal of our study is to obtain a precise dynamic model by applying the technique of system identification for the model-based control of a nonlinear robot arm, taking joint-elasticity into consideration. We previously proposed “decoupling identification method” for a planar serial two-link robot arm with elastic-joints caused by the Harmonicdrive reduction gears. First, this paper reviews t...

The consequence of the loss of involutivity of a specific set of vector fields on the periodicity of the joint motion is examined for redundant robots. An output task, defined as a one dimensional periodic closed curve embedded in a two dimensional working surface, is realized through the computation of joint velocities in the configuration space. Depending on the manner in which the joint velo...

Robotic assistance is increasingly used in neurological rehabilitation for enhanced training. Furthermore, therapy robots have the potential for accurate assessment of motor function in order to diagnose the patient status, to measure therapy progress or to feedback the movement performance to the patient and therapist in real time. We investigated whether a set of robot-based assessments that ...

In J Robot Syst 13(3):177–185 (1996), Ma proposed an efficient technique to stabilize local torque optimization solution of redundant manipulators, which prevents occurrence of high jointvelocity and guarantees the final joint-velocity to be near zero. To prevent the same problems, a different-level simultaneous minimization scheme is proposed in this paper for robotic redundancy resolution, wh...

This case study discusses the interpolation of minimum-jerk robot joint trajectories through an arbitrary number of knots using a hard-wired neural network. Minimum-jerk joint trajectories are desirable for their similarity to human joint movements and their amenability to accurate tracking. The resultant trajectories are numerical functions of time. The interpolation problem is formulated as a...

Elastic robot joints gain in importance since the nowadays robotics tends to the lightweight structures. The lightweight metals and composite materials deployed not only in the links but also in the joint assemblies affect the overall stiffness of robotic system. The elastic joints provide the loaded robot motion with additional compliance and can lead to significant control errors and vibratio...