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This paper proposes a system to enable a humanoid robot to perform various tasks semi-autonomously according to higher-layer procedures called task sequences. A task sequence is a sequentially structured procedure that describes how to perform a particular task based on sensing data, motion planners, and a robot controller. These task sequences are processed by the task sequencer to move the robot...
This paper presents a humanoid robot HRP-2Kai, which is the improvement version of HRP-2 towards disaster response tasks. HRP-2 stands for a humanoid robotics platform-2, which was developed in phase two of the Japanese national project HRP (Humanoid Robotics Project, from 1998FY to 2002FY), while Kai means improvement in Japanese. In a year of the ninth year from releasing HRP-2, the Great East Japan...
This paper studies the feasibility of emergency response humanoid robots. The 2011 Tohoku Earthquake was the most powerful earthquake ever measured in Japan. It is also referred to as the Great East Japan Earthquake and happened on March 11, 2011. Following the earthquake, several tsunami hit the Pacific coast of eastern Japan and damaged the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Some robots are...
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