Humanoid robots are envisioned as embodied intelligent agents capable of performing a wide range of human-level loco-manipulation tasks, particularly in scenarios that require strenuous and repetitive labor. However, learning these skills is challenging due to the high degrees of freedom of humanoid robots, and collecting sufficient training data for humanoid is a laborious … [Read more...] about Human–Humanoid Robots’ Cross-Embodiment Behavior-Skill Transfer Using Decomposed Adversarial Learning From Demonstration: HOTU, a Human–Humanoid Robots’ Skill Transfer Framework
Kinematics
The Open Stack of Tasks Library: OpenSoT: A Software Dedicated to Hierarchical Whole-Body Control of Robots Subject to Constraints
The Open Stack of Tasks (OpenSoT) library is a state-of-the-art framework for instantaneous whole-body motion planning and control based on quadratic programming optimization. The library is designed to enable users to easily write and solve a variety of complex instantaneous whole-body control problems with minimal input, facilitating the addition of new tasks, constraints, … [Read more...] about The Open Stack of Tasks Library: OpenSoT: A Software Dedicated to Hierarchical Whole-Body Control of Robots Subject to Constraints
RoboTwin: A Platform to Study Hydrodynamic Interactions in Schooling Fish
By living and moving in groups, fish can gain many benefits, such as heightened predator detection, greater hunting efficiency, more accurate environmental sensing, and energy saving. Although the benefits of hydrodynamic interactions in schooling fish have drawn growing interest in fields such as biology, physics, and engineering, and multiple hypotheses for how such benefits … [Read more...] about RoboTwin: A Platform to Study Hydrodynamic Interactions in Schooling Fish
FEA-Based Inverse Kinematic Control: Hyperelastic Material Characterization of Self-Healing Soft Robots
Recent advances in soft continuum robots revealed the need for accurate models, required to develop advanced control strategies. In this article, a general methodology is presented that allows to create an accurate inverse kinematic control based on hyperelastic models, fitted on mechanical material properties. This methodology is based on finite element analysis (FEA) and … [Read more...] about FEA-Based Inverse Kinematic Control: Hyperelastic Material Characterization of Self-Healing Soft Robots
Cable-Driven Parallel Robots: Typical Configurations, Analysis Techniques, and Control Methods
Cable-driven parallel robots (CDPRs) have applications in large workspaces and at high operating speeds, which necessitates considering the mass and elasticity of cables for accurate analyses of kinematics, dynamics, workspace, trajectory planning, and control. In this article, first, the typical CDPR configurations along with their application areas are summarized. Then, … [Read more...] about Cable-Driven Parallel Robots: Typical Configurations, Analysis Techniques, and Control Methods
