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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
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The experimental humanoid robot H7: a research platform for autonomous behaviour

Published:17 November 2006https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2006.1921

    Abstract

    This paper gives an overview of the humanoid robot ‘H7’, which was developed over several years as an experimental platform for walking, autonomous behaviour and human interaction research at the University of Tokyo. H7 was designed to be a human-sized robot capable of operating autonomously in indoor environments designed for humans. The hardware is relatively simple to operate and conduct research on, particularly with respect to the hierarchical design of its control architecture. We describe the overall design goals and methodology, along with a summary of its online walking capabilities, autonomous vision-based behaviours and automatic motion planning. We show experimental results obtained by implementations running within a simulation environment as well as on the actual robot hardware.

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