Our laboratory has five main projects as follows.
Legged robots driven by antagonistic pneumatic actors
Limit cycle walking of a humanoid robot driven by pneumatic artificial muscles
Consecutive juming of a monopedal robot with musculoskeletal system including bi-articular mucles
Dynamic locomotion of biped robot with musculoskeletal system
Paper
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Koh Hosoda, Takashi Takuma, Atsushi Nakamoto, and Shinji Hayashi.
Biped Robot Design Powered by Antagonistic Pneumatic Actuators for Multi-Modal Locomotion.
Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol.56, No.1, pp.46--53, 2008.
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Takashi TAKUMA, Shinji HAYASHI, and Koh HOSODA.
3D Biped Robot for Multi-modal Locomotion Driven by Antagonistic Pneumatic Actuators.
Fourth International Symposium on Adaptive Motion of Animals and Machines(AMAM2008), Vol.CD-ROM, 2008.
Motion analysis of a legged robot with biarticular muscles
Robot arms driven by antagonistic pneumatic actuators
Dynamic motion generation of robot arm driven by pneumatic actuators
Reaching movement of a robot arm with biarticular muscle and reflex
Development of humanoid hand with flexible skin and its adaptive manipulation
Bionic-hand with flexible skin that has built-in tactile receptor
Motor development of musculoskeletal infant robots
under construction
Creation of Bio-Robot Assembled with Cellular Devices
Under construction