Types of

Robots
Some Literature

Motorola books not for

this year
Contents about robot types in book
Topics:
Driving Robots
Differential steering, synchro-drive, tracked vehicles
Omni-Directional Robots
Mecanum wheels
Flying Robots
Sensors, structure
Balancing Robots
Inverted pendulum
Walking Robots
6-legged walking robots, biped android robots
 Contents
0. Introduction
1. Driving Robots
2. Flying Robots
3. Balancing Robots
4. Walking Robots
Manipulators
Service Robots
 Mobile Robot Design

Mobile robots can be:

Driving
Walking
Swimming
Diving
Flying
Mobile Robot Mechanical Design
Controllers
 Our past projects control.
Examples
Controller on a robot autonomous.
Lynxmotion hexapod. Hexor
PC connected to controller by wire.
Controller on a robot. Humanoid scientific
robot theatre (current project 2007)
PC connected to controller by wireless.
Controller on robot. (Robot soccer 2002)
Multi-processor architecture for many
robots Hahoe robot theatre.
Micro-
robots
 The Ants
A Community of Microrobots
Solette and Hopette
Mandibles...
Social Behaviour Clustering Around Food
Social Behaviour Clustering Around
Food
 Multi-Purpose Humanoid
Robots

This is our long-term goal.

First goals:
- Walking man (small)
- Walking horse (big)
- Torso (MuVal)
The most famous worlds
robot
Hondas Robot
Hondas Robot
Fiction to reality
Now we can
compare
Fiction to
Reality:
RUR
 "Gort" from
the movie
"The Day
The Earth
Stood Still."
 Fiction to Reality:
"Commander
Data" from
Star Trek, an
android robot
with a
"positronic
brain."
 Intelligent Robot
Definition
Knowledge Acquisition Capabilities
Sensors
Cameras
Radar
Tactile Sensors
Infrared etc.
Decision Making System
Artificial Intelligence
MIT, AI LAB

COG
 COG
system has
been
demonstrat
ed on
autonomou
s learning
tasks
Rodney Brooks with COG
If you cannot afford to build a
human..
.and this
brings us
back to..
 ENTERTAINMENT
Robots are seen on T.V. (Star Trek - The Next
Generation) and in the movies (The Day the
Earth Stood Still, Forbidden Planet, Lost in
Space, Blade Runner, Star Wars).
These imaginary robots do a lot of things that
the real ones can not do.
Some robots in movies, video and computer
games are made to attack people.
From a puppet theatre: Turtle
 Head of
Japanese
Robot
And
What
About
these?
 Marylin
Monroe
without
cloths ...and
skin, with
her creator
 There exist
several
companies that
build
entertainment
robots
A leg
A Head
 The new
robot
TOYS technology is
making
interesting
types of toys
that children
will like to
play with:
"FURBY",
which
became
available in
stores for
Christmas
1998 - and
continues to
be very
 TOYS
"LEGO
MINDSTORMS"
robot
construction kit.
These kits,
which were
developed by
the LEGO
company with
M.I.T. scientists,
let kids create
and program
The $1 million-dollar Mitsubishi
robot fish.
Spiritual
Robots?
 What did we learn?
Many types of robots exist.
Progress of technology allows now to build an
Intelligent Robot with Perception and Manipulation
under $1000.
There are several kits for high school robotics.
Robotics allows to explain ideas of control, software,
sensors, motors and other effectors, image
processing, pattern recognition, machine learning and
Artificial Intelligence
Small robot that you can build in a classroom can
explain all important principles at a fraction of cost
You are no longer restricted to robotic arms, kits allow
 Possible Programming
Projects
Select your favourite robot: Space, military, medical, etc
Create a model of your robot: use your knowledge of
trigonometry to describe kinematics of your robot
Find on WWW a graphics package, you can use AUTO-CAD
with Lisp
Visualize the movements of your robot using the graphic
package
Do the tele-remote interface to your robot. When you use the
mouse or joystick or keyboard, the robot executes respective
commands
 Sources

Paul Hannah