Monday, 21 December 2009

The integration and realisation of the distributed edutainment biped humanoid robot

an article by An-Ping Wang and Pau-Lo Hsu published in International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology Volume 36 Number 2 (2009)

To achieve “education in entertainment”, this research has integrated mechanical design, manufacturing technologies, network-based synchronisation, and control technologies of an edutainment robot. With proper integrations, the distributed-control environment for a biped humanoid robot has been developed in five aspects: robot mechanism; joint servo actuator; main robot controller; ZigBee network; virtual-reality host interface. Furthermore, the authors propose three enhancements of the distributed-control protocol to improve robot agility. The results indicate that the barriers between modern technology and cost to develop a edutainment humanoid robot can be overcome with the proposed mechatronics modules.

Hazel’s comment:
I picked this for the title more than anything else.


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