Development of autonomous eating mechanism for biomimetic robots

Kil-Woong Jeong; Ik-Jin Cho; Yun-Jung Lee

doi:10.1117/12.664705

2 May 2006 Development of autonomous eating mechanism for biomimetic robots

Kil-Woong Jeong, Ik-Jin Cho, Yun-Jung Lee

Proceedings Volume 6042, ICMIT 2005: Control Systems and Robotics; 60423G (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.664705
Event: ICMIT 2005: Merchatronics, MEMS, and Smart Materials, 2005, Chongqing, China

Abstract

Most of the recently developed robots are human friendly robots which imitate animals or humans such as entertainment robot, bio-mimetic robot and humanoid robot. Interest for these robots are being increased because the social trend is focused on health, welfare, and graying. Autonomous eating functionality is most unique and inherent behavior of pets and animals. Most of entertainment robots and pet robots make use of internal-type battery. Entertainment robots and pet robots with internal-type battery are not able to operate during charging the battery. Therefore, if a robot has an autonomous function for eating battery as its feeds, the robot is not only able to operate during recharging energy but also become more human friendly like pets. Here, a new autonomous eating mechanism was introduced for a biomimetic robot, called ELIRO-II(Eating LIzard RObot version 2). The ELIRO-II is able to find a food (a small battery), eat and evacuate by itself. This work describe sub-parts of the developed mechanism such as head-part, mouth-part, and stomach-part. In addition, control system of autonomous eating mechanism is described.

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Kil-Woong Jeong, Ik-Jin Cho, and Yun-Jung Lee "Development of autonomous eating mechanism for biomimetic robots", Proc. SPIE 6042, ICMIT 2005: Control Systems and Robotics, 60423G (2 May 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.664705

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