ASIMO

Advance Machine LearningJacobs University, Bremen

Presented By: Dev Bahadur Poudel

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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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Features of ASIMO• Weight 48kg Height 1.3 m• Walk(speed 2.7km/hr)• Run(9km/hr) backward and forward• Jump• Can walk in uneven surfaces• Climb up and down the staircase• Kick football• Dance• Highly Intelligent

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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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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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ASIMO’s Activities

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Degrees of Movement

Latest ASIMO has 57 degrees of freedom

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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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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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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 MethodObstacle Detection: Makes local map using

vision. Range finder detects obstacles reconstruct the map

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Limitations and Criticism• Cannot stand up after it falling down• Have no feelings and expressions• Cannot work in hazard areas to save human

life• No Underwater use and space exploration• Used in office, can increase unemployment

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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. InRobotics 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/RSJInternational Conference on, volume 3, pages 2478–2483 vol.3, 2002. ID: 1.

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Thank you!