For one year I worked at the Humboldt Universities – Artificial Intelligence Workgroup. My focus was on researching new ways of grasping and walking for for humanoid robots.

Background

The Idea was to merge the information of multiple sensors (acceleration, pressure, camera, etc.) instead of using every sensor on it’s own, to improve the grasping and walking abilities of humanoid robots. Also additional sensors where added.

Nao Robot with additional sensors on his arms

Technologies

• Hardware: Nao Robots, additional modular sensors (e.g. acceleration)
• Software: C++

Results

The research resulted in promising new approaches for adaptive walking an grasping. A detailed paper on one of the grasping approaches was released: 

Nao Robot grasping objects of different weight and stability using the same adaptive algorithm and additional sensors.