Development of an Autonomous Humanoid Robot, iSHA, for Harmonized Human-Machine Environment

Kenji Suzuki; Riku Hikiji; Shuji Hashimoto

doi:10.20965/jrm.2002.p0497

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JRM Vol.14 No.5 pp. 497-505

doi: 10.20965/jrm.2002.p0497

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Development of an Autonomous Humanoid Robot, iSHA, for Harmonized Human-Machine Environment

Kenji Suzuki, Riku Hikiji and Shuji Hashimoto

Humanoid Robotics Institute, Waseda University, 17 Kikuicho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 162-0044 Japan

Received:

April 6, 2002

Accepted:

August 26, 2002

Published:

October 20, 2002

Keywords:

autonomous humanoid robot, harmonized human-machine environment, multimodal human-machine interaction, human-cooperative robots, network robotics

Abstract

Our research aim is to build a harmonized humanmachine environment where people and machines can interact with each other naturally, seamlessly, and intuitively. Based on the sketched scenario, we have developed a humanoid robot, iSHA (interactive Systems for Humanoid Agent), designed to behave like and interact with people. We implemented an intelligent robotic architecture that integrates goal-oriented subsystems by taking into consideration the flexibility and scalability of the system. iSHA has an upper body resembling a human in shape and a mobile base with two wheels. The upper body with a head and two arms has 24 DOF. Two wheels equipped under the body provide safe and robust locomotion. Each eye equipped with a small CCD camera, small microphones built into the head, and touch sensory devices on the body respectively provide the robot with binocular vision, auditory and touch sensing ability.

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K. Suzuki, R. Hikiji, and S. Hashimoto, “Development of an Autonomous Humanoid Robot, iSHA, for Harmonized Human-Machine Environment,” J. Robot. Mechatron., Vol.14, No.5, pp. 497-505, 2002.

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