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ASIMO The Humanoid Robot

Posted on 19 June 2010 by yizhan

Advanced Step in Innovative MObility (ASIMO), a humanoid robot that was design by HONDA. ASIMO’s technology has been evolving since 1986, and have done several stages to perfect its function. Well we all know that mobility is the main stream of honda for their motorcycles, cars and power products. And this gives them a new challenge in mobility to build a two legged robot the can walk and balanced by it self. The main concept of this research is to be able to build a robot that has more viable mobility to help and live in harmony with people.

ASIMO

Research on human walking

From 1986-1991, First stage of ASIMO’s technology was achieved. By studying the principles of two legged locomotion, they have achieved to make their first two legged robot that can walked (the E0 robot). It can do both slow walking and fast walking, During slow walking, the body’s center of gravity remains always centered on the soles of the feet.When body movement is used for smooth, fast walking, the center of gravity is not always on the soles of the feet. Next step they have done is to research and analyzed the human walking, animal walking and other forms of walking to visualize movement and location of the joints, create a fast walking program and input it to the robots for experiments. With this several experiments they have manage to achieved a fast walking robot (the E2 robot) with the speed of 1.2km per hour.

Achieving stable walking

From 1991 – 1993 Honda started the next stage of ASIMO’s technology by achieving a stable walking. After achieving the first stage which is the technology of fundamental walking, Honda continues its researches in developing new techniques in stabilized walking and come up with three techniques.

Three techniques in stabilized walking

These techniques were then applied with several robots and Honda’s E5 robot was the first one to perfect stable walking even on steps or sloping surface

Creating the humanoid robot

After finishing the technology of the two legged walking robot(the Experimental Models E1 – E6), Honda starts building the prototype models ( P1, P2 and P3) from 1993 – 1997 by attaching arms, body and head to the Experimental Models creating a completely independent humanoid robots.

Latest version of ASIMO is 1.2 meter tall and weighs 43 Kg. This size enables ASIMO to perform multi-task like walking, running and pushing cart . It also has a capability to interact with gestures and has an ability to recognize objects. It can even learn to avoid obstacles.

All images and some description from this article were gathered from ASIMO’s technical info.