Paper Info
Title
Fall Detection And Damage Reduction In Biped Humanoid Robots
Abstract
The appropriate management of fall situations, i.e., fast instability detection, avoidance of unintentional falls, falling without damaging the body, fast recovery of the standing position after a fall-is an essential ability for biped humanoid robots. This issue is especially important for biped humanoid robots carrying out demanding movements such as walking on irregular surfaces, running, or playing a given sport. In this paper, we tackle the detection of instability, and the management of falls in biped humanoids using an integrated framework. In this framework, after instability is detected, a fall can be avoided, or at the very least, low-damage falling sequences can be triggered, depending on the degree of the detected instability. The proposed fall detection and fall avoidance methodologies have been validated in real-world experiments with biped humanoid robots (525 collision experiments were carried out). The obtained results show the robustness of the fall detection methodology. In addition, they show under which conditions falls can be avoided, and the reduction of the fall damage when a fall occurs. Besides, results also suggest that the proposed fall avoidance methodology still needs improvements. Moreover, the methodology is more suitable for small-sized and light-weight robots which are more mechanically robust to falling and can bear the required tests.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1142/S0219843615500012
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMANOID ROBOTICS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Fall detection, humanoid robot, biped control
Computer vision,Computer science,Simulation,Collision,Robustness (computer science),Artificial intelligence,Robot,Humanoid robot
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
12
1
0219-8436
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.36
16
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Javier Moya171.84
Javier Ruiz-del-Solar2865105.92
Marcos E. Orchard310.36
Isao Parra-Tsunekawa471.16