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 DataCommander 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

•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