Justin Robot With Self Modeling DLR Arms
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Thursday, 29 of November , 2007 at 4:12 am
In this somewhat abusive video, the researchers are trying to get a robot named Justin to hit himself, or hit (ahem) his two balls together, but Justin is having none of it: he knows exactly where his arms are in relation to the rest of his body at all times, and is able to prevent collisions. To figure out where the different parts of his body are, Justin uses feedback from the artificial muscles in his arms, which is analogous to how humans do it. When you touch your nose with your eyes closed (or try to), you’re using kinaesthetics to know where your arm, hand, and finger is without looking. Instead of relying on pre-programming, Justin is able to self-model his appendages to dynamically prevent accidents.
If you’d like to know more about Justin, please see the citation in the comments or visit http://www.phriends.eu/.
VIA [ New Scientist ]
Category: Artificial Intelligence, Research, Industrial
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Comment by PRISMA Lab, Univ. of Napoli, Italy
Made Friday, 7 of December , 2007 at 2:04 pm
This video (as you probably know…) showns the results of a joint work of Univ. of Napoli and DLR, in the framework of the PHRIENDS Specific Targeted Research Project, funded under the 6th Framework Programme of the European Community under Contract IST-045359 (www.phriends.eu). Authors are solely responsible for its content. It does not represent the opinion of the European Community and the Community is not responsible for any use that might be made of the information contained therein.
Please explicitely cite the correct reference to the authors and the project on your site and on youtube, since the video is actually linked from many websites.
The main paper which represents the basis for the shown experiments is:
A. De Santis, A. Albu-Schäffer, C. Ott, B. Siciliano, G. Hirzinger, “The skeleton algorithm for self-collision avoidance of a humanoid manipulator”, 2007 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, Zürich, Switzerland (September 2007)
Comment by Evan Ackerman
Made Friday, 7 of December , 2007 at 5:21 pm
My apologies; I did not in fact know that. I did spend a little time searching for the origin of the video, and I was not able to find the information that you have provided here. The description of the YouTube video has been updated to credit http://www.phriends.eu/, and I’ve updated the article.
Comment by PRISMA Lab, Univ. of Napoli, Italy
Made Saturday, 8 of December , 2007 at 7:32 am
OK. Videos about this approach are online since 2006 on http://www.prisma.unina.it/public/videos.htm