Enabling humanoid robots to achieve human-level athletic feats, such as running and jumping, is at the frontier of robotics research. To execute these behaviors, a robot platform must have high power density and robus...
Enabling humanoid robots to achieve human-level athletic feats, such as running and jumping, is at the frontier of robotics research. To execute these behaviors, a robot platform must have high power density and robust mechanical and electrical systems. In this paper, we present the MIT Humanoid, a robust research platform that is designed to meet these requirements and be able to perform highly dynamic, parkour-style motions. The robot is just over 1 m tall and weighs approximately 24 kg, with 18 actuated degrees of freedom, each of which has a custom high-torque proprioceptive motor module. We also present initial hardware results from our new platform, demonstrating model-based controllers for pose control, walking, and jumping. The robot's high control bandwidth allows us to achieve stable pose control and walking, and the high power density allows the robot to achieve vertical jumps of roughly 30 cm, as measured by torso displacement.
Force reflection in telemanipulators can be challenging and costly, often prohibitively so. By reducing the number of sensors and actuators used in the telemanipulator and providing the user only partial force feedbac...
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Force reflection in telemanipulators can be challenging and costly, often prohibitively so. By reducing the number of sensors and actuators used in the telemanipulator and providing the user only partial force feedback, cost and performance concerns can be optimized. While partial force feedback is beneficial practically, it creates a sensor/actuator asymmetry in the device. Robust stability for systems with sensor/actuator asymmetries has not been examined previously. We show that telemanipulators with sensor/actuator asymmetries are not passive and do not satisfy the robustness stability criterion. Thus, they are potentially unstable. Further, we motivate the need for additional stability criterion for telemanipulators that are not passivity-based.
We report a successful implementation of the sharedmemory parallelization using OpenMP to the dose calculation by the Monte Carlo particle and heavy-ion transport code PHITS. The OpenMP shared-memory parallelization i...
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To increase intelligence of walking-assisted devices, it is important to provide a start command of action based on the motion intention of subjects. In this paper, a method for identifying motion intention was propos...
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To increase intelligence of walking-assisted devices, it is important to provide a start command of action based on the motion intention of subjects. In this paper, a method for identifying motion intention was proposed based on cerebral hemoglobin information. Spontaneous movements (upstairs, downstairs, upslope, down-slope, sit-down, squat, and the corresponding standup) without an advanced imagination or external stimuli were performed on two subjects. During the experiment, cerebral hemoglobin information was recorded by applying near-infrared spectroscopic technology. Multiple analyses of variance on different features of the variation of total hemoglobin were combined and a series of significant levels were set. The corresponding precision rate was up to 74.8%, and the sensitivity was up to 79.2%. Since the proposed identification method is realized based on the brain information recorded in a real movement environment, it is helpful and practical to enhance intelligence of walking-assisted devices.
Variable speed wind turbine generators installation has been significantly increased worldwide in the last few years. Voltage sag at the grid side may call for the disconnection of the wind turbine from the grid as un...
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Path planning on a 2D-grid is a well-studied problem in robotics. It usually involves searching for a shortest path between two vertices on a grid. Single-source path planning is a modified problem which asks to find ...
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Path planning on a 2D-grid is a well-studied problem in robotics. It usually involves searching for a shortest path between two vertices on a grid. Single-source path planning is a modified problem which asks to find distances from a given point to all other points on the map. A high-performance algorithm for single-source any-angle path planning on a grid that we named CWave is proposed in this work. “Any-angle” attribute of a path planning algorithm implies that such algorithm can find paths which may include any angle segments, as opposed to standard A* on an 8-connected graph, the path can turn with 45°-increments only. The key idea of the presented algorithm is that it does not represent the grid as a graph and uses discrete geometric primitives to define the wave front. In its purest form, CWave requires for computation only integer arithmetics and multiplication by two, but can accumulate the distance error at turning points. A modified version of CWave with minimal usage of floating-point calculations is also developed. It allows to eliminate any accumulative errors which is proven mathematically and experimentally on several maps. The performance of the algorithm on three maps is demonstrated to be significantly faster than that of Theta*, Lazy Theta* and Field A* adapted for single-source planning. The limitations of the current implementations of the algorithm as well as potential improvements are discussed.
Conventional transducers and actuators are "discrete" in nature, i.e., they usually measure and control spatially discrete locations. These discrete devices become useless when they are placed at modal nodes...
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Conventional transducers and actuators are "discrete" in nature, i.e., they usually measure and control spatially discrete locations. These discrete devices become useless when they are placed at modal nodes or lines. In this paper, a generic "distributed" modal identification and vibration control theory for sensing and control of continua, e.g., shells, plates, cylinders, beams, etc., is proposed. The generic theory is derived for a thin shell coupled with two electroded piezoelectric layers. One piezoelectric layer serves as a distributed sensor and the other a distributed actuator. The sensor output, or a reference signal, is processed, amplified, and fed back into the distributed actuator. Due to the converse effect, the injected high voltage induces in-plane strains which result in counteracting moments used to suppress the shell oscillation. System dynamic equations and state equations are also derived. The theory shows that the distributed sensor can identify all vibration modes and the distributed actuators also control all modes. Simplification of the generic theory to other geometries is also demonstrated.
Research in robot-assisted gait rehabilitation has seen significant improvements in human-robot interaction, thanks to high performance actuator technologies and dedicated control strategies. In this context we propos...
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Research in robot-assisted gait rehabilitation has seen significant improvements in human-robot interaction, thanks to high performance actuator technologies and dedicated control strategies. In this context we propose a combination of lightweight, intrinsically compliant, high power actuators (pleated pneumatic artificial muscles, PPAMs) with safe and adaptable guidance along a trajectory by means of proxy-based sliding mode control (PSMC). Treadmill walking experiments performed by a healthy subject wearing a powered knee exoskeleton indicate two main challenges: synchronizing the compliant device and the subject, and tuning the control parameters in view of safe guidance. The exoskeleton is able to compliantly guide the test person's knee along various target trajectories, while ensuring a smooth response to large perturbations.
Separators have an important influence on the safety and performance of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). However, traditional polyolefin-based separators suffer from poor thermal stability and weak electrolyte wettabilit...
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In order to analyse the maximum velocity of parallel manipulators in operational space, a graphical method based on the analysis of the algebraic inequalities describing the constraints on the kinematics model is pres...
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In order to analyse the maximum velocity of parallel manipulators in operational space, a graphical method based on the analysis of the algebraic inequalities describing the constraints on the kinematics model is presented. We consider a general 6 d.o.f parallel manipulator and assume that all articular velocities are bounded by the same limit. The method is then applied to the conventional Stewart platform chosen as a reference and a new parallel manipulator for their performance comparisons. For these two parallel manipulators, respective formula of Jacobian matrix is also given.
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