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Building Spined Muscle-Tendon Humanoid

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Robotics Research

Part of the book series: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics ((STAR,volume 6))

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Human can perform variety of limber whole-body motions using numerous muscles and huge number of various sensors. The human brain has all the connections to the sensors and muscles, and learn how to manage them for whole-body motions. In this research, we have aimed to build a complex body with physically massive parallel sensor-motor systems to enter the next stage for studying humanoid brain systems. It is designed to have a flexible spined torso and a whole-body with fully muscle-tendon driven systems. In this paper the design and implementation of the first model of the humanoid is described with some experiments.

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  1. Department of Mechano-Informatics, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan

    Masayuki Inaba, Ikuo Mizuuchi, Ryosuke Tajima, Tomoaki Yoshikai, Daisuke Sato, Koichi Nagashima & Hirochika Inoue

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  1. Dept. of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, 3800, Australia

    Raymond Austin Jarvis

  2. Dept. of Systems Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 0200, Australia

    Alexander Zelinsky

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Inaba, M. et al. (2003). Building Spined Muscle-Tendon Humanoid. In: Jarvis, R.A., Zelinsky, A. (eds) Robotics Research. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, vol 6. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36460-9_8

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