Hands-free Telelocomotion of a Wheeled Humanoid

Amartya Purushottam,Yeongtae Jung,Kevin Murphy,Donghoon Baek,Joao Ramos,Amartya Purushottam,Yeongtae Jung,Kevin Murphy,Donghoon Baek,Joao Ramos

Robotic systems capable of Dynamic Mobile Manipulation (DMM) tasks combine dynamic manipulation and locomotion and could facilitate dangerous or physically demanding labor. For instance, firefighter humanoid robots could leverage their body by leaning against collapsed building rubble to push it aside. Here we introduce a teleoperation system that targets the realization of these tasks using human...