Robonaut 2 - The first humanoid robot in space

By M. Diftler, J. Mehling, M. Abdallah, N. Radford, L. Bridgwater, Adam M. Sanders, R. Askew, D. M. Linn, J. D. Yamokoski, F. Permenter and 4 more. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2011

471 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Control and Systems Engineering

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/4b08ca19704c408a33183cbe90983c9ca13a56f9

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Biomedical Engineering

In Control and Systems Engineering

Citations in the corpus

A Survey of Methods for Safe Human-Robot Interaction (2017, background): “sistants for astronauts on-board the International Space Station (ISS) (Fong et al., 2013; Diftler et al., 2011; Bualat et al., 2015), there are a wide variety of beneficial applications for HRI.”
Robotics and Autonomous Systems (2014, unknown): “Furthermore, interactive humanoid robotswith tactile sensing capabilities illustrate the possibility of using robots to improve daily life, from Robovie [215] working as a tutor in classrooms, to Robonaut 2 [9] collaborating side-by-side with humans as a ‘‘team member’’ in the International Space St”
The DLR hand arm system (2011, background): “Robonaut R2 [6] recently presented by NASA also contains serial elastic actuators.”
Implementation of a robot-human object handover controller on a compliant underactuated hand using joint position error measurements for grip force and load force estimations (2014, background): “Applications under development include intelligent factory assistants, homecare robots, hospital delivery robots, as well as astronaut robots [1]–[4].”
A review of space robotics technologies for on-orbit servicing (2014, background): “Upgrades include increased force sensing, greater range of motion, higher bandwidth, and improved dexterity [25].”
Valkyrie: NASA's First Bipedal Humanoid Robot (2015, background): “Valkyrie is the culmination of almost two decades of humanoid robotics research that has focused on manipulation, dexterity, wheeled mobility, and wearable robotic devices (Ambrose et al., 2000; Diftler et al., 2011; Mehling et al., 2007; Harrison et al., 2008; Rea et al., 2013).”