A remote-brained full-body humanoid with multisensor imaging system of binocular viewer, ears, wrist force and tactile sensor suit

Abstract

A robot body is not only an active unit but also a sensing unit. This paper describes a humanoid that integrates stereo vision, full-body tactile sensor, sound sensors and wrist force sensors into a sensor image. The sensor image reflects the current state of the environment and is regarded as all the input to the robot brain in this system. The brain program processes a series of sensor images and controls its body using them. The robot is remote-brained and designed to be a testbed to do research on sensor based behaviors of a full-body humanoid. This paper describes the design concept and the details of the system.