HUMANOID ROBOT: ISSUES AND DESIGN

Abstract

This paper discusses a simplified issues and style of Humanoid Robot with 8 DOF. The most objective is to research the theoretical and practical challenges involved in making it. The paper emphasis on bringing down the control complexity by reducing the amount of actuators used. This successively simplifies the whole design processes and reduces the assembly cost. It also describes the steadiness issues and different walking phases intimately. The proposed robot finds the place in between simple, miniaturized humanoids and therefore the most advanced, sophisticated humanoids. Albeit the market size remains small at this moment, applied fields of robots are gradually spreading from the manufacturing industry to the others in recent years. One can now easily expect that applications of robots will expand into the primary and therefore the third industrial fields together of the important components to support our society within the 21st century. There also raises strong anticipations in Japan that robots for the private use will coexist with humans and supply supports like the help for the housework, care of the aged and therefore the physically handicapped, since Japan is that the fastest aging society within the world.