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Vlimb: A Wire-Driven Wearable Robot for Bodily Extension, Balancing Powerfulness and Reachability
Shogo Sawaguchi, Temma Suzuki, Akihiro Miki +6
Numerous wearable robots have been developed to meet the demands of physical assistance and entertainment. These wearable robots range from body-enhancing types that assist human a…
Adaptive Body Schema Learning System Considering Additional Muscles for Musculoskeletal Humanoids
Kento Kawaharazuka, Akihiro Miki, Yasunori Toshimitsu +2
One of the important advantages of musculoskeletal humanoids is that the muscle arrangement can be easily changed and the number of muscles can be increased according to the situat…
Fundamental Three-Dimensional Configuration of Wire-Wound Muscle-Tendon Complex Drive
Yoshimoto Ribayashi, Yuta Sahara, Shogo Sawaguchi +5
For robots to become more versatile and expand their areas of application, their bodies need to be suitable for contact with the environment. When the human body comes into contact…
Patterned Structure Muscle : Arbitrary Shaped Wire-driven Artificial Muscle Utilizing Anisotropic Flexible Structure for Musculoskeletal Robots
Shunnosuke Yoshimura, Akihiro Miki, Kazuhiro Miyama +4
Muscles of the human body are composed of tiny actuators made up of myosin and actin filaments. They can exert force in various shapes such as curved or flat, under contact forces…
Construction of Musculoskeletal Simulation for Shoulder Complex with Ligaments and Its Validation via Model Predictive Control
Yuta Sahara, Akihiro Miki, Yoshimoto Ribayashi +4
The complex ways in which humans utilize their bodies in sports and martial arts are remarkable, and human motion analysis is one of the most effective tools for robot body design…
Dynamic Cloth Manipulation Considering Variable Stiffness and Material Change Using Deep Predictive Model with Parametric Bias
Kento Kawaharazuka, Akihiro Miki, Masahiro Bando +2
Dynamic manipulation of flexible objects such as fabric, which is difficult to modelize, is one of the major challenges in robotics. With the development of deep learning, we are b…
Learning of Balance Controller Considering Changes in Body State for Musculoskeletal Humanoids
Kento Kawaharazuka, Yoshimoto Ribayashi, Akihiro Miki +4
The musculoskeletal humanoid is difficult to modelize due to the flexibility and redundancy of its body, whose state can change over time, and so balance control of its legs is cha…
Designing Fluid-Exuding Cartilage for Biomimetic Robots Mimicking Human Joint Lubrication Function
Akihiro Miki, Yuta Sahara, Kazuhiro Miyama +6
The human joint is an open-type joint composed of bones, cartilage, ligaments, synovial fluid, and joint capsule, having advantages of flexibility and impact resistance. However, r…
Hardware Design and Learning-Based Software Architecture of Musculoskeletal Wheeled Robot Musashi-W for Real-World Applications
Kento Kawaharazuka, Akihiro Miki, Masahiro Bando +6
Various musculoskeletal humanoids have been developed so far. While these humanoids have the advantage of their flexible and redundant bodies that mimic the human body, they are st…