Designing a novel bipedal Silent Agile Robust Autonomous Host (S.A.R.A.H.)

Abstract

S.A.R.A.H. (Silent Agile Robust Autonomous Host) is a project that is co-funded from Innovate UK’s scheme “Emerging and Enabling Technologies”. The project’s aim is to develop a novel design of a bipedal robot which uses patent pending actuators that rely on bare electromagnets and not on DC motors. The locomotion of the bipedal will be based on flightless birds, combining pattern generated locomotions with neural network predictions for the next movement to optimize the walk. The neural network will have the ability to evolve in to deep learning to learn online and exchange knowledge with other robots. Finally, as a host it has the ability to carry an external module on its’ upper body, e.g. arm manipulators.