• Robots Page
• Jido
• Videos
• Related Publications

Jido

• The robot
• Software Architecture
• Localisation
• Navigation
• Obstacles Detection
• Human Detection
• Speech Recognition
• Talking Head
• Manipulation
• Supervision

The Robot

Jido is a MP-L655 platform from Neobotix, equipped with a Mitsubishi PA-10 arm (with 6 degrees of freedom). Several sensors are available on the platform: sonars, 2 laser range finders, two stereo camera banks (one mounted on the arm and the other on a pan-tilt unit on the base platform) and several contact sensors on the gripper.

Two on-board computers (Intel Pentium 4 processors, at 3GHz, with 512 megabytes of RAM each), using the Linux operating system, are used to run all software.The original two parallel jaw gripper was equipped with two fingers providing three contact points.Yaw opening potentiometer, contact force sensor resistors and strain gage to measure applied forces have been installed and connected to a micro-controller.