| Title |
A Small Humanoid Robot that can Play Golf |
| Authors |
김종우(Kim, Jong-Woo) ; 차철(Cha, Chul) ; 조동권(Cho, Dong-Kwon) ; 성영휘(Sung, Young-Whee) |
| Keywords |
Humanoid robot ; Playing golf ; Biped walking ; Vision |
| Abstract |
Robot mobility and intelligence become more important for robots to be used in various fields other than automation. The main purpose of providing mobility to a robot is to extend the robot's manipulability. In this paper, we introduce a small humanoid robot that can autonomously play golf as an example of incorporating robot intelligence, mobility, and manipulability. The robot has 12 degrees of freedom for legs and has various basic walking patterns. It can move to a desired position and change orientation by combining the basic waking patterns. The robot has a color CCD camera and can extract coordinates of the objects in the environments. The small humanoid robot has 8 degrees of freedom for arms and can play golf autonomously with two kinds of dexterous swing motions. Kinematic analysis of the robot arms, vision data processing for the recognition of the environments, algorithm for playing robotic golf have been performed or proposed. The experimental results show that the robot can play golf autonomously. |