This slide was prepared by me, Dev Poudel for a short presentation about state of the art robot technology.

1. ASIMO
Advance Machine Learning
Jacobs University, Bremen
Presented By: Dev Bahadur Poudel

2. What is ASIMO?
• Name of Humanoid Robot
• ASIMO : Advance Step in Innovative Mobility
• Japanese Corporation: Honda Motor
Company. Ltd(Masato Hirose)
• Name after Issac Asimov (Three Laws of
Robotics)
• Disclose in 2000 after 15 years of Research
• State of the art in field of Humanoid Robot
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4. Intelligence of ASIMO
• Recognition : face, gesture, sound, moving and
stationary obstacles
• Recognize person from face and name
• Address People by their name
• Performs task according gesture of human being
• Recognize sound of human, can be operated by
voice command
• Avoid Obstacles while moving
• Connect to Internet for Information(answer
people about weather, news)
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5. Recognition
• Follow movement of people
• Greet a person when he/she approaches
• Recognize the indicated location shown by
human and move to that location
• Handshake and hand wave
• Recognize when it is called and turn to person
calling it
• Avoids human obstacles when suddenly appears
in path
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7. Degrees of Movement
Latest ASIMO has 57 degrees of freedom
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8. Operation
• Has its own advance processors
• Controlled by laptop, wireless controller, voice
• Nickel Zinc Battery for power
• Cameras, gyro-sensors, force sensors in each
joints, speed sensor, microphones
• Infrared sensors, Range finder
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9. Design Policy
• Compliance Control
Landing impact absorbed by rubber in foot
• Posture Balance
Floor Reaction Control and Zero Moment
Point Control Mechanism
• Movement
i-Walk Technology, predictive movement
planning. Can adjust trajectory to balance the
posture
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10. Intelligence Techniques
• Vision System for human tracking, facial
recognition, gesture recognition
• Gets pixels of images
Algorithms: 2D gesture recognition Bayes
statistical model(hand swing, farewell)
Face Recognition by eigen vector Method
Obstacle Detection: Makes local map using
vision. Range finder detects obstacles
reconstruct the map
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12. References
[1] ASIMO http://asimo.honda.com/downloads/pdf/honda-asimo-robot-fact-
sheet.pdf. Technical report.
[2] ASIMO Technical Information 2007
http://asimo.honda.com/downloads/pdf/asimo-technical-
information.pdf. Technical report.
[3] K. Hirai, M. Hirose, Y. Haikawa, and T. Takenaka. The development of
honda humanoid robot. In
Robotics and Automation, 1998. Proceedings. 1998 IEEE International
Conference on, volume 2,
pages 1321–1326 vol.2, 1998. ID: 1.
[4] Y. Sakagami, R. Watanabe, C. Aoyama, S. Matsunaga, N. Higaki, and K.
Fujimura. The intelli-
gent asimo: system overview and integration. In Intelligent Robots and
Systems, 2002. IEEE/RSJ
International Conference on, volume 3, pages 2478–2483 vol.3, 2002. ID: 1.
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13. Thank you!
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