- Title
- HyKim: development of a robot bear: bringing the strength and robustness of a bear's biomimetic features to a robot
- Creator
- Turner, Peter; Dickinson, Michael
- Relation
- IEEE Robio 2008: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics. ROBIO 2008 Proceedings (Bangkok, Thailand 21-26 February, 2009) p. 13-18
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ROBIO.2009.4912972
- Publisher
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2009
- Description
- There are many commercially available robots that display biomimetic influences. Sony's Aibo and DasaRobot's Genibo are two examples where robot dog designs have drawn from nature. Aldebaran's Nao and Hanson Robotics' Zeno are examples of humanoids robots that have drawn influences from the human body. This paper presents the design of an autonomous 21 degree of freedom (DOF) robot bear, named HyKim and discusses the relevant biomimetic influences. After discussing the motivation for creating a robot bear, the biomimetic principles that were applied to the mechanical design, to ensure the resulting robot was dasiabear-likepsila, are presented. The design of the computer and electronic architecture was based on four essential design criteria - open architecture, performance, modularity and reliability. How these criteria were met is then presented, followed by a discussion on future research projects that will be based on or include HyKim. Finally a conclusion summarising the design is presented.
- Subject
- bears; biomimetic; biped; quadruped; robotics
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/918806
- Identifier
- uon:8711
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781424426799
- Rights
- Copyright © 2009 IEEE. Reprinted from the ROBIO 2008 Proceedings. This material is posted here with permission of the IEEE. Such permission of the IEEE does not in any way imply IEEE endorsement of any of University of Newcastle's products or services. Internal or personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution must be obtained from the IEEE by writing to pubs-permissions@ieee.org. By choosing to view this document, you agree to all provisions of the copyright laws protecting it.
- Language
- eng
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