End-Effectors Changer Design for Humanoids - Joint Robotics Laboratory
Article Dans Une Revue IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Année : 2024

End-Effectors Changer Design for Humanoids

Julien Roux
Jean-Baptiste Izard
Arnaud Tanguy
Hiroshi Kaminaga
Fumio Kanehiro

Résumé

Almost all (not to say all) existing humanoids have not been designed with the ability to change their endeffectors (head, feet and hands) on-the-fly. Inspired by the toolchanging mechanisms in robotics automation and manufacturing, we propose an end-effectors changer mechanism suitable to humanoids. This letter explains why enabling humanoids with such a technology is important and why existing tool-changer mechanisms are not adapted. The proposed changer mechanism is not actuated. Yet, it does not require human intervention to assist the change of end-effectors. We assess our mechanism through a comparative study with existing tool-changers and demonstrations with the HRP-4 humanoid. We claim that our idea could be a new turn in the design of future humanoids and open perspective to modular sizing of robots. The proposed mechanism can possibly apply to animaloids to some extent.
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hal-04718554 , version 1 (02-10-2024)

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Julien Roux, Jean-Baptiste Izard, Arnaud Tanguy, Hiroshi Kaminaga, Fumio Kanehiro, et al.. End-Effectors Changer Design for Humanoids. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2024, 9 (11), pp.10495-10502. ⟨10.1109/LRA.2024.3469816⟩. ⟨hal-04718554⟩
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