March 19, 2010
Cody: A New Humanoid Mobile-Manipulating Robot
Georgia Tech's Healthcare Robotics Lab creates a new humanoid robot called Cody. It is composed of a Segway RMP 50 Omni mobile base, 1-DoF vertical linear actuator, and a pair of 7-DoF Meka Arms with series elastic actuators. It also has "equilibrium point controllers" (EPC) which vastly simplify robot behavior creation, and work with very low refresh rates.
With its direct physical interface, you can grab hold of the robot and reposition it by guiding them by the hand or the arm. It’s much easier than using a gamepad controller.
Most of Cody’s code is compatible with ROS, which (ideally) makes it simple for other mobile robot developers to use the code that were written to make Cody so intuitive to control.
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Written by: John
Filed Under: Robotics
Tags: Creation, Developers, Dof, Equilibrium, Georgia Tech, Humanoid Robot, Linear Actuator, Meka, Mobile Base, Mobile Robot, Omni, Physical Interface, Robot Behavior, Robotics Lab, Segway
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