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The rapidly increase of personal robotic platforms and their applications in Japan represents a great challenge for universities to introduce undergraduate students the basic knowledge required to develop intelligent automated mechanisms. For this purpose; in this paper, we are presenting our approach to introduce first year undergraduate students of the Department of Modern Mechanical Engineering...
This paper presents an intelligent control method for the Acrobot with applications of neural network (NN) and genetic algorithm (GA). A switch controller is proposed where a neurocontroller (NC) optimized by GA is used for the swing-up stage and a linear quadratic regulator (LQR) is applied to the balancing stage. In order to analyze the characteristics of the proposed control system, we investigate...
Up to now, different kinds of musical performance robots have been developed. MPRs are designed to closely reproduce the human organs involved during the playing of musical instruments. Our research on the Waseda Flutist Robot has been focused on clarifying the human motor control from an engineering point of view. As a result, the Waseda Flutist Robot No. 4 Refined IV (WF-4RIV) is able of playing...
The aim of our research is to develop an anthropomorphic flutist robot that on the one hand reproduces the human motor skills required for playing the flute, and on the other hand displays cognitive capabilities for interacting with other (human) musicians. In this paper, we detail the recent mechanical improvements on the Waseda Flutist Robot (WF-4RIV), enhancing the realistic production of the flute...
In this research, an interface to instruct robots by the movement of the human head is presented. In the proposed interface, a robot moves in cooperation with the movement of the human head. The intersection point between the extension line of the head direction and a plane on which robots work is regarded as the instruction point and an interface system in which the robot follows the movement of...
Up to now, different kinds of musical performance robots (MPRs) have been developed. MPRs are designed to closely reproduce the required motor skills displayed by humans in order to play musical instruments. Our research, at Waseda University, has been focused on developing an anthropomorphic flutist robot. In this year, we have succeeded in developing the Waseda flutist robot no.4 refined IV (WF-4RIV);...
Towards developing robots that are capable of communicating in dasianaturalpsila ways with humans, we believe that it is important to study, and note any important interrelation between, both verbal and non-verbal information in human communication. The model of a timing control system was developed based on a previous study that analyzed the utterance and body motions in the context of human-human...
Robots that support humans cooperatively should move as being accepted emotionally. To form such a movement, it is one of the effective methods for the robots to make the gentle movement to take care of the humans. The humanpsilas cooperative movement and support movement have changes in the generated trajectory with cherishing a desire. In this research, we propose an algorithm to generate the handing...
It is expected that robots will play an important role in social welfare and service for the older citizens. These robots should display an emotional aspect to make them more acceptable to humans. Humans shake hands in order to greet each other and display a feeling of closeness. A handshake is the embodied interaction with contact by which humans can directly share embodied rhythms. In this paper,...
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