Robotics without Reason Robotik Seminar WS 99/00 Rojas Behnke
Overview What is a robot? Robots in Sci Fiction Reactive robots and an example: Genghis Humanoid robots Topics for the seminar
What is a robot? Webster: 1a: A machine that looks like a human being and performs various complex acts 2: A device that automatically performs complicated often repetitive tasks 3: A mechanism guided by automatic controls Software robots?
What is a Robot? Cartesian robotCleaning robot
Service robots Building walls Gas station
Robots in the World Installations Stock
Robots in Science Fiction The word robot was coined by Karel Capek in R.U.R „Rossum‘s Universal Robots“ Robby from The Forbidden Planet
Lost in Space
Metropolis - The robot
Reactive Robotics A walking machine
Walking robot - Genghis Brook‘s Hexapod with whiskers
Subsumption Architecture Incremental method for building robots Network of finite state machines links sensors to actions Internal timers Control system built in layers Message passing augmented finite state machines
Augmented Finite State Machine Endlicher Automat R R R Sensor I S
Walking with six legs Walk Up leg trigger leg down beta pos S
Equilibrium of the legs alpha advance alpha balance alpha pos S Alpha balance tries to make the sum of the alpha angles zero
Walking Walk Up leg trigger leg down beta pos S alpha advance alpha balance alpha pos S
Walking in rough terrain Walk Up leg trigger leg down beta pos S alpha advance alpha balance alpha pos S Alpha collision
New Frontiers Humanoids
The Honda Humanoid Max. work weight 5kg per hand Running time about 15min. Weight 210kg Degree of Freedom (DOF) Leg's DOF:6x2=12 Arm's DOF:7x2=14 Hand's DOF:2x2=4 Actuators DC servo motors Sensors Gyrometers G-sensors Six axis force sensors on wrists and feet Vision cameras Transmitter Wireless ethernet modem Battery 136V7Ah(Ni-Zn)
Hardware
Cog -An intelligent Humanoid
Topics for the Seminar