Body schema in robotics: a review

M Hoffmann, H Marques, A Arieta… - IEEE Transactions …, 2010‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
How is our body imprinted in our brain? This seemingly simple question is a subject of
investigations of diverse disciplines, psychology, and philosophy originally complemented …

[HTML][HTML] A literature review of sensor heads for humanoid robots

JA Rojas-Quintero, MC Rodríguez-Liñán - Robotics and Autonomous …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
We conducted a literature review on sensor heads for humanoid robots. A strong case is
made on topics involved in human robot interaction. Having found that vision is the most …

The challenges ahead for bio-inspired'soft'robotics

R Pfeifer, M Lungarella, F Iida - Communications of the ACM, 2012‏ - dl.acm.org
The challenges ahead for bio-inspired 'soft' robotics Page 1 76 communications
of the acm | november 2012 | vol. 55 | no. 11 review articles Doi:10.1145/2366316.2366335 …

Musculoskeletal lower-limb robot driven by multifilament muscles

S Kurumaya, K Suzumori, H Nabae, S Wakimoto - Robomech Journal, 2016‏ - Springer
This paper presents a redundant musculoskeletal robot using thin McKibben muscles that is
based on human anatomy. The purpose of this robot is to achieve motions and …

Design principles of a human mimetic humanoid: Humanoid platform to study human intelligence and internal body system

Y Asano, K Okada, M Inaba - Science Robotics, 2017‏ - science.org
Many systems and mechanisms in the human body are not fully understood, such as the
principles of muscle control, the sensory nervous system that connects the brain and the …

Human mimetic musculoskeletal humanoid Kengoro toward real world physically interactive actions

Y Asano, T Kozuki, S Ookubo… - 2016 IEEE-RAS 16th …, 2016‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We have been develo** human mimetic musculoskeletal humanoids from the view point
of human-inspired design approach. Kengoro is our latest version of musculoskeletal …

Design and locomotion control of a soft robot using friction manipulation and motor–tendon actuation

V Vikas, E Cohen, R Grassi, C Sözer… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robots built from soft materials can alter their shape and size in a particular profile. This
shape-changing ability could be extremely helpful for rescue robots and those operating in …

Anthropomorphic movement analysis and synthesis: A survey of methods and applications

D Kulić, G Venture, K Yamane… - IEEE Transactions …, 2016‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The anthropomorphic body form is a complex articulated system of links/limbs and joints,
simultaneously redundant and underactuated, and capable of a wide range of sophisticated …

The puller-follower control of compliant and noncompliant antagonistic tendon drives in robotic systems

V Potkonjak, B Svetozarevic… - International …, 2011‏ - journals.sagepub.com
This paper proposes a new control strategy for noncompliant and compliant antagonistic
tendon drives. It is applied to a succession of increasingly complex single-joint systems …

A novel soft actuator: MISA and its application on the biomimetic robotic arm

H Yang, G Wei, L Ren - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter presents the design and development of a novel compact motor-based non-linear
stiffness soft actuator used for tendon-driven joints, ie a magnet-integrated soft actuator …