8 papers
WiXus: A Wheeled-Legged Robot with Wire-Driven Environmental Utilizing to Integrate Mobility and Manipulation
Shintaro Inoue, Kento Kawaharazuka, Temma Suzuki +2
Wheeled-legged robots, which have wheels at their feet and achieve high mobility by coordinating wheel drive and leg drive, have been developed. These robots have been developed pu…
Exploring the proprioceptive potential of joint receptors using a biomimetic robotic joint
Akihiro Miki, Shun Hasegawa, Sota Yuzaki +4
In neuroscience, joint receptors have traditionally been viewed as limit detectors, providing positional information only at extreme joint angles, while muscle spindles are conside…
An RGB-D Camera-Based Multi-Small Flying Anchors Control for Wire-Driven Robots Connecting to the Environment
Shintaro Inoue, Kento Kawaharazuka, Keita Yoneda +4
In order to expand the operational range and payload capacity of robots, wire-driven robots that leverage the external environment have been proposed. It can exert forces and opera…
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…
CubiXMusashi: Fusion of Wire-Driven CubiX and Musculoskeletal Humanoid Musashi toward Unlimited Performance
Shintaro Inoue, Kento Kawaharazuka, Temma Suzuki +4
Humanoids exhibit a wide variety in terms of joint configuration, actuators, and degrees of freedom, resulting in different achievable movements and tasks for each type. Particular…
Design Method of a Kangaroo Robot with High Power Legs and an Articulated Soft Tail
Shunnosuke Yoshimura, Temma Suzuki, Masahiro Bando +4
In this paper, we focus on the kangaroo, which has powerful legs capable of jumping and a soft and strong tail. To incorporate these unique structure into a robot for utilization,…