This paper describes the technical approach, hardware design, and software algorithms that
have been used by Team THOR in the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) Trials 2013 …

This paper describes Team THOR's approach to human‐in‐the‐loop disaster response
robotics for the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) Finals. Under the duress of …

General purpose modular actuators have greatly lowered the difficulty of building and
maintaining high degree of freedom humanoid robots. In addition to widely adopted …

This paper describes Team THOR's approach to sliding autonomy in manipulation and full
body control of a disaster response robot for the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) …

Major rule changes for the RoboCup Humanoid League in 2015 pose significant vision and
locomotion challenges for disambiguating similarly colored objects and navigating soft …

Robot soccer has become an effective benchmarking problem for robotics research as it
requires many aspects of robotics including perception, self localization, motion planning …

This paper describes the hardware design and motion control algorithms that have been
used by Team THOR in the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) Trials 2013 competition. The …

Develo** a reliable humanoid robot that operates in uncharted real-world environments is
a huge challenge for both hardware and software. Commensurate with the technology …

This work describes the optimization of two robot movements in the context of the Humanoid
league competition at RoboCup. A multi-objective genetic algorithm (MOGA) was used in …

Common design principles for low cost humanoid robots include a low center of mass height
and a large support area for increased static stability. However, such principles limit the …