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Having human-like motions will make humanoid robots more predictable and safer for the people around them. An effective way to realize this would be to use human motions as reference. Due to different kinematic and dynamic properties between humans and humanoid robots, however, a human motion could be physically infeasible for a robot and cause the robot to fall over. Therefore, it is necessary to...
This paper describe the design and development of Upper Extremities Powered Exoskeleton of Four-Degree of Freedom (4 DOF) which is developed utilizing the McKibben Artificial Muscles. Such systems will be useful in the field of rehabilitation, and provides additional strength in lifting capabilities to ordinary individuals. Main purposes of the system are to rehabilitate post-stroke individual, and...
This paper describes the design and development of a cost-effective (development cost of USD 300) human motion analysis system for children with movement disorders. Developed system consists of a Microsoft Kinect™ camera system, wearable force insole system, and data acquisition system. The system is capable of datalogging, and analysing kinematics, and kinetics parameters of gait. Real-time kinematics...
This paper presents a tracking controller considering contact force constraints for floating-base humanoid robots. The goal of the tracking controller is to compute the joint torques such that the robot can imitate given reference motions obtained from, for example, human motion capture data. The technical challenge is that the robot motion depends not only on joint torques but also on contact forces...
This paper proposes a new grasp force efficiency (GFE) measure that considers not only contact point locations but also the hand configuration and mechanism. GFE evaluates the largest wrench applied to the object that the grasp can resist with unit contact forces. Traditional GFE measures depend solely on the contact point locations without considering how the unit contact forces are generated. Intuitively,...
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