TY - GEN
T1 - Development of an anthropomorphic flute robot for the application in science and technology museum
AU - Huang, Gao
AU - Zhang, Weimin
AU - Meng, Fei
AU - Tian, Ye
AU - Shi, Qing
AU - Petersen, Klaus
AU - Takanishi, Atsuo
AU - Huang, Qiang
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 IEEE.
PY - 2014/4/20
Y1 - 2014/4/20
N2 - To resemble the appearance of human beings, humanoid robots should be designed with many DOFs, however, it increases the complexity of the mechanical design and the real-time control, which will make a high cost and have a poor reliability and will not fit for the application in museums or human's daily lives. In this paper, to enable the low cost and high reliability robot to interact with humans naturally and sever humans more friendly, we imported advanced technology of the Waseda's flute robot and retained the most important mechanical parts, such as the lip, lungs and the fingers for the flute playing, on this basis, some other mechanical structures were redesigned; particularly, the robot's appearance was carefully designed; in addition, we also redesigned the hardware structure using our own joint controllers and software system based on CAN bus communication for the cost saving and high reliability. The redesigned robot had just 16 DOFs. Preliminary performance test results showed that this new redesigned robot achieved in producing high quality of flute sound and high sound conversion efficiency, and the period of communication was about 4ms.
AB - To resemble the appearance of human beings, humanoid robots should be designed with many DOFs, however, it increases the complexity of the mechanical design and the real-time control, which will make a high cost and have a poor reliability and will not fit for the application in museums or human's daily lives. In this paper, to enable the low cost and high reliability robot to interact with humans naturally and sever humans more friendly, we imported advanced technology of the Waseda's flute robot and retained the most important mechanical parts, such as the lip, lungs and the fingers for the flute playing, on this basis, some other mechanical structures were redesigned; particularly, the robot's appearance was carefully designed; in addition, we also redesigned the hardware structure using our own joint controllers and software system based on CAN bus communication for the cost saving and high reliability. The redesigned robot had just 16 DOFs. Preliminary performance test results showed that this new redesigned robot achieved in producing high quality of flute sound and high sound conversion efficiency, and the period of communication was about 4ms.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84983168153
U2 - 10.1109/ROBIO.2014.7090667
DO - 10.1109/ROBIO.2014.7090667
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84983168153
T3 - 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, IEEE ROBIO 2014
SP - 2220
EP - 2225
BT - 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, IEEE ROBIO 2014
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2014
Y2 - 5 December 2014 through 10 December 2014
ER -