Musculoskeletal Wheeled Robot Musashi-W for Real-World Applications (Humanoids 2022)

Title: Hardware Design and Learning-Based Software Architecture of Musculoskeletal Wheeled Robot Musashi-W for Real-World Applications Authors: Kento Kawaharazuka, Akihiro Miki, Masahiro Bando, Temma Suzuki, Yoshimoto Ribayashi, Yasunori Toshimitsu, Yuya Nagamatsu, Kei Okada, Masayuki Inaba Accepted at Humanoids2022 arxiv - Various musculoskeletal humanoids have been developed so far. While these humanoids have the advantage of their flexible and redundant bodies that mimic the human body, they are still far from being applied to real-world tasks. One of the reasons for this is the difficulty of bipedal walking in a flexible body. Thus, we developed a musculoskeletal wheeled robot, Musashi-W, by combining a wheeled base and musculoskeletal upper limbs for real-world applications. Also, we constructed its software system by combining static and dynamic body schema learning, reflex control, and visual recognition. We show that the hardware and software of Musashi