THE FUTURE OF HUMANOID ROBOTS – RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS Edited by Riadh Zaier The Future of Humanoid Robots – Research and Applications Edited by Riadh Zaier Published by InTech Janeza Trdine 9, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia Copyright © 2011 InTech All chapters are Open Access distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, which allows users to download, copy and build upon published articles even for commercial purposes, as long as the author and publisher are properly credited, which ensures maximum dissemination and a wider impact of our publications. After this work has been published by InTech, authors have the right to republish it, in whole or part, in any publication of which they are the author, and to make other personal use of the work. Any republication, referencing or personal use of the work must explicitly identify the original source. 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Publishing Process Manager Vedran Greblo Technical Editor Teodora Smiljanic Cover Designer InTech Design Team First published January 2012 Printed in Croatia A free online edition of this book is available at www.intechopen.com Additional hard copies can be obtained from [email protected] The Future of Humanoid Robots – Research and Applications, Edited by Riadh Zaier p. cm. ISBN 978-953-307-951-6 free online editions of InTech Books and Journals can be found at www.intechopen.com Contents   Preface IX Part 1 Periodic Tasks and Locomotion Control 1 Chapter 1 Performing Periodic Tasks: On-Line Learning, Adaptation and Synchronization with External Signals 3 Andrej Gams, Tadej Petrič, Aleš Ude and Leon Žlajpah Chapter 2 Autonomous Motion Adaptation Against Structure Changes Without Model Identification 29 Yuki Funabora, Yoshikazu Yano, Shinji Doki and Shigeru Okuma Chapter 3 Design of Oscillatory Neural Network for Locomotion Control of Humanoid Robots 41 Riadh Zaier Part 2 Grasping and Multi-Fingered Robot Hand 61 Chapter 4 Grasp Planning for a Humanoid Hand 63 Tokuo Tsuji, Kensuke Harada, Kenji Kaneko, Fumio Kanehiro and Kenichi Maruyama Chapter 5 Design of 5 D.O.F Robot Hand with an Artificial Skin for an Android Robot 81 Dongwoon Choi, Dong-Wook Lee, Woonghee Shon and Ho-Gil Lee Chapter 6 Development of Multi-Fingered Universal Robot Hand with Torque Limiter Mechanism 97 Wataru Fukui, Futoshi Kobayashi and Fumio Kojima Part 3 Interactive Applications of Humanoid Robots 109 Chapter 7 Exoskeleton and Humanoid Robotic Technology in Construction and Built Environment 111 T. Bock, T. Linner and W. Ikeda VI Contents Chapter 8 Affective Human-Humanoid Interaction Through Cognitive Architecture 147 Ignazio Infantino Chapter 9 Speech Communication with Humanoids: How People React and How We Can Build the System 165 Yosuke Matsusaka Chapter 10 Implementation of a Framework for Imitation Learning on a Humanoid Robot Using a Cognitive Architecture 189 Huan Tan Chapter 11 A Multi-Modal Panoramic Attentional Model for Robots and Applications 211 Ravi Sarvadevabhatla and Victor Ng-Thow-Hing Chapter 12 User, Gesture and Robot Behaviour Adaptation for Human-Robot Interaction 229 Md. Hasanuzzaman and Haruki Ueno Chapter 13 Learning Novel Objects for Domestic Service Robots 257 Muhammad Attamimi, Tomoaki Nakamura, Takayuki Nagai, Komei Sugiura and Naoto Iwahashi Part 4 Current and Future Challenges for Humanoid Robots 277 Chapter 14 Rob’s Robot: Current and Future Challenges for Humanoid Robots 279 Boris Durán and Serge Thill Preface   This book provides state of the art scientific and engineering research findings and developments in the field of humanoid robotics and its applications. The book contains chapters that aim to discover the future abilities of humanoid robots by presenting a variety of integrated research in various scientific and engineering fields such as locomotion, perception, adaptive behavior, human-robot interaction, neuroscience and machine learning. Without a dose of imagination it is hard to predict whether human-like robots will become viable real-world citizens or whether they will be confined to certain specific purposes. However, we can safely predict that humanoids will change the way we interact with machines and will have the ability to blend perfectly into an environment already designed for humans. This book’s intended audience includes upper-level undergraduates and graduates studying robotics. It is designed to be accessible and practical, with an emphasis on useful information to those working in the fields of robotics, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, computational methods and other fields of science directly or indirectly related to the development and usage of future humanoid robots. The editor of the book has extensive research and development experience, and he has patents and publications in the area of humanoid robotics, and his experience is reflected in editing the content of the book.   Riadh Zaier Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Sultan Qaboos University Sultanate of Oman