TY - JOUR
T1 - Mechatronic Design of ARC Humanoid Robot Open Platform
T2 - First Fully 3D Printed Kid-Sized Robot
AU - Saeedvand, Saeed
AU - Aghdasi, Hadi S.
AU - Baltes, Jacky
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was ¯nancially supported by the \Chinese Language and Technology Center" of National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) from The Featured Areas Research Center Program within the framework of the Higher Education Sprout Project by the Ministry of Education (MOE) in Taiwan, and Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, under Grants No. MOST 108-2634-F-003-002, MOST 108-2634-F-003-003, and MOST 108-2634-F-003-004 (administered through Pervasive Arti¯cial Intelligence Research (PAIR) Labs), as well as MOST 107-2811-E-003-503. We are grateful to the National Center for High-performance Computing for computer time and facilities to conduct this research.
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PY - 2020/6/1
Y1 - 2020/6/1
N2 - Although there are several popular and capable humanoid robot designs available in the kid-size range, they lack some important characteristics: affordability, being user-friendly, using a wide-angle camera, sufficient computational resources for advanced AI algorithms, and mechanical robustness and stability are the most important ones. Recent advances in 3D printer technology enables researchers to move from model to physical implementation relatively easy. Therefore, we introduce a novel fully 3D printed open platform humanoid robot design named ARC. In this paper, we discuss the mechanical structure and software architecture. We show the capabilities of the ARC design in a series of experimental evaluations.
AB - Although there are several popular and capable humanoid robot designs available in the kid-size range, they lack some important characteristics: affordability, being user-friendly, using a wide-angle camera, sufficient computational resources for advanced AI algorithms, and mechanical robustness and stability are the most important ones. Recent advances in 3D printer technology enables researchers to move from model to physical implementation relatively easy. Therefore, we introduce a novel fully 3D printed open platform humanoid robot design named ARC. In this paper, we discuss the mechanical structure and software architecture. We show the capabilities of the ARC design in a series of experimental evaluations.
KW - 3D printed robot
KW - Open platform humanoid robot
KW - kid-sized robot
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U2 - 10.1142/S0219843620500103
DO - 10.1142/S0219843620500103
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85087278793
SN - 0219-8436
VL - 17
JO - International Journal of Humanoid Robotics
JF - International Journal of Humanoid Robotics
IS - 3
M1 - 2050010
ER -