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SIMON, the humanoid robot Balazs 09-05-2006
Posted by Balazs on September 5, 2006, 8:38 am
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Hello!

I would like to introduce my humanoid robot to you.

http://www.logintsys.hu/MediaSimonv3.htm

Main characters of SIMON
- Number of freedom is 32 (24 are controlled by PIC)
- Height: 115 cm
- Weight : 6 kg (without embedded computer, accu and plastic cover)
- Robotmovement with genetic algorythm
- Motionplanning
- Speech generation , speech recognizing
- Image processing of two cameras
- 3D space, generated by robot
- Artifical intelligent (Holding the balance of the robot, it's been
worked in simulation)

Video is coming soon.........


Posted by Joe Strout on September 5, 2006, 10:21 am
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> I would like to introduce my humanoid robot to you.
>
> http://www.logintsys.hu/MediaSimonv3.htm

Looks neat! Can you post some details about how you fabricated it? It
looks like the joints are using servos, but you've attached some custom
gear trains... how did you make those? And are those custom brackets?
A newbie like me could really learn from you on these things.

> - Number of freedom is 32 (24 are controlled by PIC)

What are the other 8 controlled by?

> - Height: 115 cm
> - Weight : 6 kg (without embedded computer, accu and plastic cover)

What plastic cover? I didn't see any such in your pictures.

Also, over a meter tall is neat in a world where most humanoid robots
are less than half that. You should post a picture of him standing next
to you (or better yet, next to a child about a meter tall).

Actually, now that I mention it, you haven't posted any pictures of him
standing at all. Is it not doing that yet?

> - Speech generation , speech recognizing

What sort of speech recognition can it do?

> - Image processing of two cameras

What sort of image processing? Does it compute true stereo, or follow
colors, or what?

> - Artifical intelligent (Holding the balance of the robot, it's been
> worked in simulation)

Can it hold its balance in real life as well?

> Video is coming soon.........

I look forward to it. Thanks for posting this!

Best,
- Joe

Posted by Balazs on September 14, 2006, 8:55 am
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Hi,

That's true. Joints are made of pair of servos. There are modified
servos,with endless rotation. The limits is the potmeter, and plastic
gears(orange). I bought them in a toy shop. But some of these gairs I
cast in plastic. I also cast the wheels of belt, that join the servo
with joint. I give you more information with pleasure.

> > - Number of freedom is 32 (24 are controlled by PIC)
Some of freedom has not controll system(servo). For example the ankle.
In the picture there are not in place the springs, from that less
fluctuate in ankle.
That's why I did not make robot to standing.
Three fingers are controlled with only one servo. One finger can moving
in three places, because it has got four parts.

Unfortunately the plastic cover is not very well. It's heavy and not so
fully.....

The speech recognition is based on neural networks. I separate the
voice in spektrum. I could not have created from it real words yet.

The image processing is true 3d generation. Where there is colour
diferent, this points is looked for two picture and with stereo
algorithm I place it in 3d space.

> > - Artifical intelligent (Holding the balance of the robot, it's been
> > worked in simulation)
>
> Can it hold its balance in real life as well?
Unfortunately not yet.

Best,

Bal=E1zs

Joe Strout wrote:
>
> > I would like to introduce my humanoid robot to you.
> >
> > http://www.logintsys.hu/MediaSimonv3.htm
>
> Looks neat! Can you post some details about how you fabricated it? It
> looks like the joints are using servos, but you've attached some custom
> gear trains... how did you make those? And are those custom brackets?
> A newbie like me could really learn from you on these things.
>
> > - Number of freedom is 32 (24 are controlled by PIC)
>
> What are the other 8 controlled by?
>
> > - Height: 115 cm
> > - Weight : 6 kg (without embedded computer, accu and plastic cover)
>
> What plastic cover? I didn't see any such in your pictures.
>
> Also, over a meter tall is neat in a world where most humanoid robots
> are less than half that. You should post a picture of him standing next
> to you (or better yet, next to a child about a meter tall).
>
> Actually, now that I mention it, you haven't posted any pictures of him
> standing at all. Is it not doing that yet?
>
> > - Speech generation , speech recognizing
>
> What sort of speech recognition can it do?
>
> > - Image processing of two cameras
>
> What sort of image processing? Does it compute true stereo, or follow
> colors, or what?
>
> > - Artifical intelligent (Holding the balance of the robot, it's been
> > worked in simulation)
>
> Can it hold its balance in real life as well?
>
> > Video is coming soon.........
>=20
> I look forward to it. Thanks for posting this!
>=20
> Best,
> - Joe


Posted by Wayne Lundberg on September 6, 2006, 11:59 am
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Ditto Joe Strout's questions and comments....

Wayne

> Hello!
>
> I would like to introduce my humanoid robot to you.
>
> http://www.logintsys.hu/MediaSimonv3.htm
>
> Main characters of SIMON
> - Number of freedom is 32 (24 are controlled by PIC)
> - Height: 115 cm
> - Weight : 6 kg (without embedded computer, accu and plastic cover)
> - Robotmovement with genetic algorythm
> - Motionplanning
> - Speech generation , speech recognizing
> - Image processing of two cameras
> - 3D space, generated by robot
> - Artifical intelligent (Holding the balance of the robot, it's been
> worked in simulation)
>
> Video is coming soon.........
>



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