HUMANOID ROBOTS - Matthias Hackel

HUMANOID ROBOTS HUMANOID ROBOTS Edited by Ben Choi In-Tech intechweb.org Published by In-Tech In-Tech Kirchengasse 43/3, A-1070 Vienna, Austria Hosti 80b, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia Abstracting and non-profit use of the material is permitted with credit to the source. Statements and opinions expressed in the chapters are these of the individual contributors and not necessarily those of the editors or publisher. No responsibility is accepted for the accuracy of information contained in the published articles. Publisher assumes no responsibility liability for any damage or injury to persons or property arising out of the use of any materials, instructions, methods or ideas contained inside. After this work has been published by the In-Teh, authors have the right to republish it, in whole or part, in any publication of which they are an author or editor, and the make other personal use of the work. © 2009 In-tech www.intechweb.org Additional copies can be obtained from: publication@intechweb.org First published January 2009 Printed in Croatia Humanoid Robots, Edited by Ben Choi p. cm. ISBN 978-953-7619-44-2 1. Humanoid Robots I. Ben Choi V Preface This book focuses on the state of the art developments of humanoid robots. It aims to fa-cilitate building robots that resemble the human form and imitate human behaviors. Hu-manoid robots are developed to use the infrastructures designed for humans, to ease the interactions with humans, and to help the integrations into human societies. The develop-ments of humanoid robots proceed from building individual robots to establishing societies of robots working alongside with humans. For building individual robots, this book addresses the problems of constructing a hu-manoid body and mind. On constructing a humanoid body, it describes the designs of foot, knee, waist, arm, head, and face. On constructing a mind, it describes how to generate walk patterns and maintain balance, how to encode and specify humanoid motions, and how to control eye and head movements for focusing attention on moving objects. It provides methods for learning motor skills and for language acquisition. It describes how to generate facial movements for expressing various emotions and provides methods for decision mak-ing and planning. Finally, it discusses how to create artificial cognition. For establishing societies of robots working for humans, this book addresses the prob-lems of interactions between humans and robots. It describes how robots learn from humans and how humanoid robots use various facial expressions as a form of nonverbal communi-cation. This book accounts for the current leading researches and challenges in building hu-manoid robots in order to prepare for the near future when human societies will be ad-vanced by using humanoid robots. It serves as a reference source for any researchers inter-ested in humanoid robots and as a supplementary textbook for any courses in robotics. BEN CHOI PhD & Pilot, pro@BenChoi.org Associate Professor in Computer Science Louisiana Tech University USA ... - tailieumienphi.vn