摘要:
A system for stabilizing, powering and controlling walking animatronic figures or vehicles by magnetically attracting and/or repelling the feet (26) of such structures, using various cooperative combinations of interacting ferromagnetic plates (38) and electromagnet (40) to guide and stabilize the structures along a platform, as well as facilitating transformer coupling of AC power and/or control signals from the platform to the walking figure without the need for an umbilical.
摘要:
The invention relates to a humanoid game-playing robot, a method and associated computer programs. In the prior art, there is no humanoid robot which is able to move on its lower limbs, to make gestures, communicate by way of visual and/or audible signals, receive the latter and interpret them in order to deduce appropriate behaviour for participating in a game as host, question poser, question answerer, investigator or moving subject of the game. The hardware, internal-software and programming-software architectures of the robot of the invention make it possible for these functions to be carried out and for new game experiences to be created, in which the frontiers between the virtual world and the real world are moved again.
摘要:
A leg type movable robot (1) has a seat (80) provided in its base body (3) so that the robot can sit on a chair. This reduces the occupied space and the space needed for storage or transport and improves transport safety. Further, since the robot can be fixed in its seated position, maintenance operation is facilitated. Further, the operating range is widened to make desk work possible. Further, the seat is positioned rearwardly of the center of gravity of the robot in its seated position. As a result, there is no possibility that the moment around the center of gravity, which acts on the robot as the latter is being seated, acts to rearwardly tilt the robot. Thus, the robot is allowed to hold a stabilized position before and after it is seated.
摘要:
A first temporary target motion track in the future of an object (120) is determined based on the movement plan of the object (120), and a decision is made whether the movement of the legs of a robot (1) can satisfy such requirements that the requirement concerning positional posture relation between the object and the robot is satisfied for a predetermined number of at least two items in the future and restrictions on the movement of the legs of the robot (1) are satisfied for each step up to a predetermined number of steps. If the decision result is affirmative, a target gait is created based on the first temporary target motion track, and if the decision result is negative, a target gait is created based on the target motion track of the object (120) which is based on a corrected movement plan. Consequently, the situation requiring correction of a movement plan is minimized regardless of the moving direction of the object with respect to the robot, and a target gait permitting movement of the object conforming to the movement plan as much as possible is created.
摘要:
An abnormality detector of a moving robot (1) arranged such that self-diagnosis is made in the abnormality detector of the moving robot whether the internal state quantity has an abnormal value or not or whether at least any one, e.g. an inner field sensor, is abnormal or not, abnormality information is delivered when a decision is made that an abnormality has occurred with the date of occurrence being attached thereto and stored in an internal memory (68g) and an external memory (94a). Reliability of abnormality detection of the moving robot can thereby be enhanced and the circumstance leading to abnormality can be grasped accurately because the abnormality information is stored with the date of occurrence being attached thereto. In addition to the date of occurrence, parameters indicative of the state quantity can be attached to the abnormality information being stored in the external memory.
摘要:
An impact absorbing mechanism installed at the foot part (5) of a bipedal robot, comprising an upper base plate (5a) joined to the foot part articulation (4) of a movable leg (2) and a lower base plate (5b) opposed to the upper base plate (5a), wherein three elastic members (6) with different anisotropies on elasticity are disposed between the upper base plate (5a) and the lower base plate (5b) around a yaw axis (YA) at equal intervals so that the elastic displacement of the lower base plate (5b) relative to the upper base plate (5a) is permitted in a yaw axis (YA) direction and suppressed in a direction orthogonal to the yaw axis (YA) direction.