Types of Robots

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Types of Robots
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Some Literature
Motorola books not for this year
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Contents about robot types in book

• Topics
• Driving Robots
• Differential steering, synchro-drive, tracked
  vehicles
• Omni-Directional Robots
• Mecanum wheels
• Flying Robots
• Sensors, structure
• Balancing Robots
• Inverted pendulum
• Walking Robots
• 6-legged walking robots, biped android robots

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Contents

• 0. Introduction
• 1. Driving Robots
• 2. Flying Robots
• 3. Balancing Robots
• 4. Walking Robots

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Manipulators
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Service Robots
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Mobile Robot Design

• Mobile robots can be
• Driving
• Walking
• Swimming
• Diving
• Flying

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Mobile Robot Mechanical Design
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Controllers
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Our past projects control. Examples

• 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.

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Micro-robots
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The AntsA Community of Microrobots
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Solette and Hopette
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Mandibles...
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Social Behaviour Clustering Around Food
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Social Behaviour Clustering Around Food
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Multi-Purpose Humanoid Robots
This is our long-term goal. First goals -
Walking man (small) - Walking horse (big) - Torso
(MuVal)
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The most famous worlds robot
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Hondas Robot
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Hondas Robot
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Fiction to reality

• Now we can compare

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Fiction to Reality RUR
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• "Gort" from the movie "The Day The Earth Stood
  Still."

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Fiction to Reality

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

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Intelligent Robot Definition

• Knowledge Acquisition Capabilities
• Sensors
• Cameras
• Radar
• Tactile Sensors
• Infrared etc.
• Decision Making System
• Artificial Intelligence

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MIT, AI LAB

• COG

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COG system has been demonstrated on autonomous
learning tasks
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Rodney Brooks with COG
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If you cannot afford to build a human..
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.and this brings us back to..
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ENTERTAINMENT

• 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.

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From a puppet theatre Turtle
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• Head of Japanese Robot

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• And What About these?

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

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• There exist several companies that build
  entertainment robots

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A leg
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A Head
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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.

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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.

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The 1 million-dollar Mitsubishi robot fish.
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Spiritual Robots?
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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.

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Possible Programming 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

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SourcesPaul Hannah