Component modularized design of musculoskeletal humanoid platform musashi to investigate learning control systems

K Kawaharazuka, S Makino, K Tsuzuki… - 2019 IEEE/RSJ …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To develop Musashi as a musculoskeletal humanoid platform to investigate learning control
systems, we aimed for a body with flexible musculoskeletal structure, redundant sensors …

Robust continuous motion strategy against muscle rupture using online learning of redundant intersensory networks for musculoskeletal humanoids

K Kawaharazuka, M Nishiura, Y Toshimitsu… - Robotics and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Musculoskeletal humanoids have various biomimetic advantages, of which redundant
muscle arrangement is one of the most important features. This feature enables variable …

Dynamic cloth manipulation considering variable stiffness and material change using deep predictive model with parametric bias

K Kawaharazuka, A Miki, M Bando, K Okada… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Dynamic manipulation of flexible objects such as fabric, which is difficult to modelize, is one
of the major challenges in robotics. With the development of deep learning, we are …

Musculoskeletal AutoEncoder: A unified online acquisition method of intersensory networks for state estimation, control, and simulation of musculoskeletal humanoids

K Kawaharazuka, K Tsuzuki, M Onitsuka… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While the musculoskeletal humanoid has various biomimetic benefits, the modeling of its
complex structure is difficult, and many learning-based systems have been developed so far …

Long-time self-body image acquisition and its application to the control of musculoskeletal structures

K Kawaharazuka, K Tsuzuki, S Makino… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The tendon-driven musculoskeletal humanoid has many benefits that human beings have,
but the modeling of its complex muscle and bone structures is difficult and conventional …

Design and development for humanoid-vehicle transformer platform with plastic resin structure and distributed redundant sensors

T Makabe, N Hiraoka, S Noda, T Anzai… - … on Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The humanoid robot that can transform itself into a form according to its purpose requires
whole-body motions with complex contact state transitions such as recovery from a fall and …

Adaptive body schema learning system considering additional muscles for musculoskeletal humanoids

K Kawaharazuka, A Miki, Y Toshimitsu… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One of the important advantages of musculoskeletal humanoids is that the muscle
arrangement can be easily changed and the number of muscles can be increased according …

Task-specific self-body controller acquisition by musculoskeletal humanoids: Application to pedal control in autonomous driving

K Kawaharazuka, K Tsuzuki, S Makino… - 2019 IEEE/RSJ …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The musculoskeletal humanoid has many benefits that human beings have, but the
modeling of its complex flexible body is difficult. Although we have developed an online …

Biomimetic operational space control for musculoskeletal humanoid optimizing across muscle activation and joint nullspace

Y Toshimitsu, K Kawaharazuka… - … on Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We have implemented a force-based operational space controller on a physical
musculoskeletal humanoid robot arm. The controller calculates muscle activations based on …

Reflex-based motion strategy of musculoskeletal humanoids under environmental contact using muscle relaxation control

K Kawaharazuka, K Tsuzuki, M Onitsuka… - 2019 IEEE-RAS 19th …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The musculoskeletal humanoid can move well under environmental contact thanks to its
body softness. However, there are few studies that actively make use of the environment to …