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Development and evaluation of a centaur robot

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ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. 349 archive
Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts table of contents

Athens, Greece

SESSION: Advanced interaction, virtual reality table of contents

Pages 219-223

Year of Publication: 2008

ISBN:978-1-60558-248-1

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Kuniya Shinozaki	Kwansei Gakuin University, Sanda, Japan
Satoshi Tsuda	Kwansei Gakuin University, Sanda, Japan
Ryohei Nakatsu	National University of Singapore, Singapore

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SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Recently various types of robots are being studied and developed, which can be classified into two groups: humanoid type and animal type. Since each group has its own merits and demerits, a new type of robot is expected to emerge with greater strengths and fewer weaknesses. In this paper we propose a new type of robot called the "Centaur Robot" by merging the concepts of these two types of robots. This robot has a human-like upper body and a four-legged animal-like lower body. Due to this basic architecture, the robot has several merits, including human-like behaviors and stable walking even on non-smooth ground. We describe its hardware and software architectures. Also we describe the experiments to evaluate its walking capability.

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