Types of Types of RobotsRobots

Some Literature

Motorola books not for this year

Contents about robot types in book

• Topics:Topics:• – Driving Robots

– Differential steering, synchro-drive, tracked vehicles• – Omni-Directional Robots

– Mecanum wheels• – Flying RobotsFlying Robots

– Sensors, structure• – Balancing RobotsBalancing Robots

– Inverted pendulum• – Walking RobotsWalking Robots

– 6-legged walking robots, biped android robots

Contents

• 0. Introduction

• 1. Driving Robots

• 2. Flying Robots

• 3. Balancing Robots

• 4. Walking Robots

ManipulatorsManipulators

Service RobotsService Robots

Mobile Robot Design

• Mobile robots can be:• Driving

• Walking

• Swimming

• Diving

• Flying

Mobile Robot Mechanical DesignMobile Robot Mechanical Design

ControllersControllers

Our past projects control. Our past projects control. ExamplesExamples

• Controller on a robot – autonomous. Lynxmotion hexapod. Hexor

• PC connected to controller by wire. Controller on a robot. Humanoid scientific robot theatre (current project 2007)

• PC connected to controller by wireless. Controller on robot. (Robot soccer 2002)

• Multi-processor architecture for many robots – Hahoe robot theatre.

Micro-Micro-robotsrobots

The AntsA Community of Microrobots

Solette and Hopette

Mandibles...

Social Behaviour Clustering Around FoodSocial Behaviour Clustering Around Food

Social Behaviour Clustering Around Food

Multi-Purpose Humanoid Multi-Purpose Humanoid RobotsRobots

This is our long-term goalThis is our long-term goal.

First goals:

- Walking man (small)

- Walking horse (big)

- Torso (MuVal)

The most famous world’s The most famous world’s robotrobot

Honda’s Robot

Honda’s Robot

Fiction to realityFiction to reality

Now we can compare

Fiction to Fiction to Reality: Reality:

RURRUR

• "Gort" from the movie "The Day The Earth Stood Still."

• ""Commander Data" from Star " from Star Trek, an Trek, an android robot android robot with a with a "positronic "positronic brain." brain."

Fiction to Reality:Fiction to Reality:

Intelligent Robot Intelligent Robot DefinitionDefinition

• Knowledge Acquisition Capabilities Sensors Cameras Radar Tactile Sensors Infrared etc.

• Decision Making System Artificial Intelligence

COG

MIT, AI LABMIT, AI LAB

COG system has

been demonstrat

ed on autonomous learning

tasks

Rodney Brooks with COG

If you cannot afford to build a If you cannot afford to build a human…..human…..

….and this brings us

back to…..

ENTERTAINMENTENTERTAINMENT

• Robots are seen on T.V. (Star Trek - The Next Generation) and in the movies (The Day the Earth Stood Still, Forbidden Planet, Lost in Space, Blade Runner, Star Wars).

• These imaginary robots do a lot of things that the real ones can not do.

• Some robots in movies, video and computer games are made to attack people.

From a puppet theatre: Turtle

•Head of Japanese Robot

•Head of Japanese Robot

•And What About these?

• Marylin Monroe without cloths ...and skin, with her creator

• There exist several companies that build entertainment robots

A leg

A Head

TOYS TOYS • The new robot

technology is making interesting types of toys that children will like to play with:

• "FURBY", which became available in stores for Christmas 1998 - and continues to be very popular.

TOYS TOYS

• "LEGO MINDSTORMS" robot construction kit. These kits, which were developed by the LEGO company with M.I.T. scientists, let kids create and program their own robots.

The $1 million-dollar Mitsubishi The $1 million-dollar Mitsubishi robot fish.robot fish.

Spiritual Robots?

What did we learn?What did we learn?

• Many types of robots exist.• Progress of technology allows now to build an Intelligent

Robot with Perception and Manipulation under $1000.• There are several kits for high school robotics.• Robotics allows to explain ideas of control, software,

sensors, motors and other effectors, image processing, pattern recognition, machine learning and Artificial Intelligence

• Small robot that you can build in a classroom can explain all important principles at a fraction of cost

• You are no longer restricted to robotic arms, kits allow to build any type of robot.

Possible Programming Possible Programming Projects Projects

• Select your favourite robot: Space, military, medical, etc• Create a model of your robot: use your knowledge of

trigonometry to describe kinematics of your robot• Find on WWW a graphics package, you can use AUTO-CAD

with Lisp• Visualize the movements of your robot using the graphic

package• Do the tele-remote interface to your robot. When you use the

mouse or joystick or keyboard, the robot executes respective commands

Sources

Paul Hannah