Humanoid As a Research Vehicle Into Flexible Complex Interaction

Humanoid As a Research Vehicle Into Flexible Complex Interaction

Abstract

This paper positions humanoid research as an approach to under standing and realizing complex real world interactions between a robot, an environment, and a human. As a first step towards extracting a common principle over the three term interactions , a concept of action oriented control has been investigated with a simulation example. The complex interaction view casts unique constraint s on t he design of a humanoid, such as w hole body, s moot h shape, non-functional -modular design. A brief description of ongoing design of ETL -Humanoid which conforms to the above constraints is presented.