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Humanoid robot upper body motion generation using B-spline-based functions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2014

M. Ruchanurucks
M. Ruchanurucks*
Affiliation:
Electrical Engineering, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand
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*Corresponding author. E-mail: fengmtr@ku.ac.th
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Summary

This paper aims to represent a human's upper body motion using a humanoid robot. As a robot has different physical limitations than a human, we present a method that can filter the trajectories to meet the limitations. The filtering can be used directly and also can be used as a constraint for optimization. It will be shown to be applicable both offline and online. Many physical attributes, namely angle, collision, velocity, and dynamic torque, are represented as B-spline explicit functions. The B-spline coefficients are then calculated to limit the physical attributes. This explicit method can guarantee that many limits are met. Hence, it is better than many methods that only reduce such physical attributes using objective functions.

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B-splineMotion generationRobot dynamicsRobot kinematics

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Robotica , Volume 33 , Issue 4 , May 2015 , pp. 705 - 720
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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