Blog Post #2: Breakthrough
In the early to mid 90's, HONDA made a breakthrough in the stabilization of the walk of the robot. This breakthrough came with the E4-E5-E6 series of ASIMO. This robot had the capability of walking even up-stairs and on slight slopes. As shown in the image below are the posture controls needed for stable walking.
What this means is that three parameters needed to be monitored using sensory inputs to a processor about the physical parameters of the legs themselves. When you apply these three parameters to the human body and how it walks it makes perfect sense as to walk stable the brain must know where the foot is coming from, where the foot is being planted and how much pressure to apply to that foot for perfect stability. Feedback is used to constantly monitor and correct any deficiencies.
Above we see an example of Honda's E6, this was the next robot after the E6, same functionality but ultimately more popular. As you can see in the video, the robot has given a firm base to attach a body to the legs to start the production of the P series of HUMANOID robot.
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Blog Post #2
Donal Murphy.
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