4 accepted papers
A human foot with high degrees of freedom (DOF) that has multi-DOF toe joints and a two-DOF ankle provides multiple benefits, such as increased stride length and walking speed, impact mitigation, and enhanced balancing. However, creating such mechanisms for legged robots has been challenging due to…
Wheeled mobile robots have been receiving continuous attention in various fields because of their stability, efficiency, and simple mechanisms. However, most of them require significantly larger occupied space than humans and have limited maneuverability in the environment for humans, such as crowde
This paper presents a three-degrees-of-freedom (DOF) gravity compensation mechanism for the waists of cooperative robots whose centers of mass change according to the arm poses. It comprises 2-DOF and 1-DOF gravity compensation mechanisms in series, and is capable of natural and agile motions such a…
In this paper, a dual-arm robot system for high-speed manipulations, which is named LIMS2-AMBIDEX and is developed to compete in the IROS2018 Robotic Challenge, is presented. It has two seven-degrees-of-freedom (DO FF) lightweight arms, a three-DOF head, and a one-DOF gripper to manipulate foldable…