Search Results - "Mizuuchi, I."

Evaluating the usability and users' acceptance of a kitchen assistant robot in household environment by Pham, T. X. N., Hayashi, K., Becker-Asano, C., Lacher, S., Mizuuchi, I.

“…The main characteristics of service robots are their human-centered working environment and their non-expert users. Therefore, service robots need to exhibit…”
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Realization of large joint movement while standing by a musculoskeletal humanoid using its spine and legs coordinately by Nakanishi, Y., Namiki, Y., Hongo, K., Urata, J., Mizuuchi, I., Inaba, M.

“…We are developing the novel musculoskeletal humanoid that is able to do coordinated motion with arms, legs and spine. In this research, we present how to…”
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Automatic parameter adjustment of reflexive walking of a musculo-skeletal humanoid by Hongo, K., Nakanishi, Y., Namiki, Y., Mizuuchi, I., Inaba, M.

“…Humanoid robots need mechanical flexibility, redundancy, multiple degrees of freedom, and so on. Because the hard and heavy body can hurt human or surrounding…”
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The design and control of the flexible spine of a fully tendon-driven humanoid "Kenta" by Mizuuchi, I., Tajima, R., Yoshikai, T., Sato, D., Nagashima, K., Inaba, M., Kuniyoshi, Y., Inoue, H.

“…We are trying to realize a humanoid which has flexibility. If humanoids have a flexible structure, safety and posture variety can be achieved. We focus on the…”
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A flexible spine human-form robot-development and control of the posture of the spine by Mizuuchi, I., Inaba, M., Inoue, H.

“…The development of a robot which has a flexible spine is presented. By embedding a multi-DOF (degree of freedom) soft structure into a robot body as a spine,…”
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Thermal control of electrical motors for high-power humanoid robots by Urata, J., Hirose, T., Namiki, Y., Nakanishi, Y., Mizuuchi, I., Inaba, M.

“…High physical ability of humanoid robots is desired for application to nursing care. Light and powerful actuators are required to realize the high-power…”
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Design of high D.O.F. mobile micro robot using electrical resistance control of shape memory alloy by Urata, J., Yoshikai, T., Mizuuchi, I., Inaba, M.

“…Shape-memory alloy(SMA) is a suitable actuator for a micro mobile robot due to its size and weight. However, length of SMA actuators is known to be nonlinear…”
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Development of bilateral wearable device "kento" for control robots using muscle actuator modules by Hongo, K., Yoshida, M., Nakanishi, Y., Mizuuchi, I., Inaba, M.

“…A method of giving intelligence to control robots by human navigations is one of appropriate solution to respond to a lot of unforeseeable situations, and…”
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Picking up dishes based on active groping with multisensory robot hand by Fujimoto, J., Mizuuchi, I., Sodeyama, Y., Yamamoto, K., Muramatsu, N., Ohta, S., Hirose, T., Hongo, K., Okada, K., Inaba, M.

“…In this paper we present a new method for picking up dishes based on active groping. Though a bird's eye view is commonly used to recognize dishes, this method…”
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The designs and motions of a shoulder structure with a spherical thorax, scapulas and collarbones for humanoid "Kojiro" by Sodeyama, Y., Nishino, T., Namiki, Y., Nakanishi, Y., Mizuuchi, I., Inaba, M.

“…Humanoid robots are still in a process of the evolution. We are trying to develop a next-generation which have safety, flexibility and multiplicity of uses. A…”
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Design of tendon driven humanoid's lower body equipped with redundant and high-powered actuators by Nakanishi, Y., Namiki, Y., Urata, J., Mizuuchi, I., Inaba, M.

“…This paper presents how to develop a lower body with both redundant and high-powered actuator systems toward the next version of a fully tendon-driven…”
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The development and control of a flexible-spine for a human-form robot by Mizuuchi, Ikuo, Yoshida, Shigenori, Inaba, Masayuki, Inoue, Hirochika

“…In this paper, the development of a robot which has a flexible spine is presented. By embedding a multi-d.o.f. soft structure into a robot body as a spine, the…”
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The designs and motions of a shoulder structure with a wide range of movement using bladebone-collarbone structures by Sodeyama, Y., Yoshikai, T., Nishino, T., Mizuuchi, I., Inaba, M.

“…We are trying to develop an innovative humanoid which learns from the structure of a human shoulder, especially the bladebone and collarbone. We consider that…”
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A shoulder structure of muscle-driven humanoid with shoulder blades by Sodeyama, Y., Mizuuchi, I., Yoshikai, T., Nakanishi, Y., Inaba, M.

“…We are trying to create an innovative humanoid which has increased flexibility by imitating the structure of a human shoulder, especially the shoulder blade…”
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An advanced musculoskeletal humanoid Kojiro by Mizuuchi, I., Nakanishi, Y., Sodeyama, Y., Namiki, Y., Nishino, T., Muramatsu, N., Urata, J., Hongo, K., Yoshikai, T., Inaba, M.

“…We have been promoting a project of musculoskeletal humanoids. The project aims at the long-term goal of human-symbiotic robots as well as the mid-term goal of…”
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Adaptive pick-and-place behaviors in a whole-body humanoid robot with an autonomous layer based on parallel sensor-motor modules by Mizuuchi, Ikuo, Inaba, Masayuki, Inoue, Hirochika

“…The aim of this research is to achieve adaptive carrying behaviors using the whole body of a humanoid robot; in other words to create humanoid robots'…”
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A reinforceable-muscle flexible-spine humanoid "Kenji" by Mizuuchi, I., Yoshikai, T., Nakanishi, Y., Inaba, M.

“…We have been studying about muscle-tendon spined humanoid robots for aiming a novel humanoid robot that has modifiable mechanical flexibility, safety and wide…”
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Determining an optimal multiarticular muscle arrangement of a musculoskeletal robot for a specific motion using human motion data by Asaoka, T., Kawamura, M., Kumakura, S., Mizuuchi, I.

“…In this paper, we propose a method to determine an optimal multiarticular muscle arrangement for a specific robot motion. Multiarticular muscles contribute to…”
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Muscle geometric topology estimation based on muscle length - joint angle nonlinearity in tendon-driven robot systems by Nakanishi, Y, Hongo, K, Urata, J, Mizuuchi, I, Inaba, M

“…Many tendon-driven systems have been developed to realize more natural and various motions, or to lighten the end of a robot arm. However, the control based on…”
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Development of musculoskeletal humanoid Kotaro by Mizuuchi, I., Yoshikai, T., Sodeyama, Y., Nakanishi, Y., Miyadera, A., Yamamoto, T., Niemela, T., Hayashi, M., Urata, J., Namiki, Y., Nishino, T., Inaba, M.

“…This paper presents the concepts, issues on development, and future perspectives of a novel musculoskeletal humanoid `Kotaro'. The specifications and…”
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