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Introduction
Published in Eric R. Westervelt, Jessy W. Grizzle, Christine Chevallereau, Jun Ho Choi, Benjamin Morris, Feedback Control of Dynamic Bipedal Robot Locomotion, 2018
Eric R. Westervelt, Jessy W. Grizzle, Christine Chevallereau, Jun Ho Choi, Benjamin Morris
In the late-1990s, the CNRS and the French National Research Council began the construction of RABBIT, a five-link, planar bipedal walker weighing 32 kg and measuring 1.2 m in height; see Section 2.1 for details on RABBIT’s design. RABBIT’s stated purpose is to serve as a test bed for the study of control issues related to bipedal walking and running: impacts, limit cycles, and hybrid systems. Following in the series of prototypes that began with the WL-5, the Humanoid Robotics Institute formed at Waseda University in 2000 developed WABIAN [112,226,248]. WABIAN is a three-dimensional biped weighing 107 kg and measuring 1.84 m in height. It has 52-DOF and is capable of walking at 0.21 m/s. One of the more famous bipeds to-date is ASIMO (standing for Advanced Step in Innovation MObility) developed by the Honda Corporation [114,117]. ASIMO is an autonomous three-dimensional walker with 26-DOF weighing 43 kg and measuring 1.2 m in height and is capable of walking at 0.3 m/s on level ground and of climbing and descending stairs. ASIMO’s development began in the mid-1980s and continues to the present day. The development has involved ten generations of prototypes, named E0 through E6 and P1 through P3, and has cost hundreds of millions of dollars. Following Honda’s success, the Japanese government began the Humanoid Robot Project (HRP) in an attempt to grow Japan’s service robot sector. Recently, the HRP project has produced HRP-2, a three-dimensional, 30-DOF biped weighing 58 kg and measuring 1.54 m in height [129,135].
Robotics, lasers and 3D printing
Published in Paul Marsden, Digital Quality Management in Construction, 2019
Honda’s ASIMO (Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility), shown in Figure 14.1, is the product of two decades of ingenuity and research by engineers to create a humanoid robot.12 At 1.3 ms tall and weighing 50 kg, it looks like a small astronaut and it can recognise faces and walk around its environment unaided using machine vision. While ASIMO is designed for the domestic environment, particularly to aid Japan’s ageing population, its human-like capabilities are impressive and suggest that such robots navigating the work environment are not too far away. After decades of film fantasies offering visions of robots everywhere, finally, we may just be on the cusp of making it a reality.
Humanoid Robots
Published in Osita D. I. Nwokah, Yildirim Hurmuzlu, The Mechanical Systems Design Handbook, 2017
Miomir Vukobratović, Branislav Borovać, Dragoljub Šurdilović, Dragan Stokić
Honda has continued its research on biped walking humanoid robots. In 2000, it developed the ASIMO (Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility) humanoid robot.33 It has an overall height of 1200 mm, weighs 43 kg, and has 26 DOFs. The robot is compatible with human living environments. The walking technology includes behavior prediction such that the robot can change its walking motion freely and smoothly without interruption. A central role in the control strategy is played by the model ZMP control.
Artificially Intelligent, Interactive, and Assistive Machines: A Definitional Framework for Intelligent Assistants
Published in International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 2023
Intelligent, interactive, and assistive machines took a major leap forward with the development of humanoid robot called ASIMO (Sakagami et al., 2002). ASIMO was developed by Honda to assist people as a receptionist. It was able to detect human faces using AI and could utter basic greetings. Unlike prior intelligent assistants which were confined to virtual spaces, ASIMO was mobile and thus expanded the boundaries intelligent machines into physical reality.
The development of autonomous driving technology: perspectives from patent citation analysis
Published in Transport Reviews, 2021
Rico Lee-Ting Cho, John S. Liu, Mei Hsiu-Ching Ho
Figure 5 shows that Honda has owned patents as early as the 1990s. For example, US5011288 published in 1991 is related to position control system for unmanned automated vehicle, and US5307419A published in 1994 is related to a control device of an autonomously moving body. Honda also launched its bipedal humanoid Robot ASIMO with technologies of advanced intelligence, perception, and autonomous movement.11