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ARMAR 6

ARMAR-6 is a collaborative humanoid robot assistant for industrial environments. Designed to recognize the need of help and to allow for an easy and safe human-robot interaction, the robot’s comprehensive sensor setup includes various camera systems, torque sensors and systems for speech recognition. The dual arm system combines human-like kinematics with a payload of 10 kg which allows for dexterous and high-performant dual arm manipulation. In combination with its telescopic torso joint and a pair of underactuated five-finger hands, ARMAR-6 is able to grasp objects on the floor as well as to work in a height of 240 cm. The mobile platform includes holonomic wheels, battery packs and four high-end PCs for autonomous on-board data processing.The software architecture is implemented in ArmarX (https://armarx.humanoids.kit.edu). High-level functionality, like object localization, navigation, grasping and planning are already implemented and available.

Key features:
  • Holonomic movement of the mobile platform
  • Various control modes enable the execution of precise and torque/force-controlled motions
  • Dexterous arm system with 2×8 DoF for dual arm manipulation
  • Limitless rotation in shoulder, upper arm and forearm
  • Control architecture with memory and attention system
  • Underactuated five-finger hands
Possible applications:
  • AI: symbolic planning and execution monitoring
  • Cognitive robotics: learning multimodal representations, affordances
  • Physical human-robot interaction
  • Semantic scene understanding and affordance extraction
  • Task space impedance control
  • Gravity compensated torque control
  • Dual arm manipulation
  • Force and torque based control and interaction
  • Natural speech dialog
  • Human-robot interaction
  • Vision-based grasping and deep learning for grasping
  • Imitation Learning, Programming by demonstration

Technical specifications

Arm range: 130 cm
Total Weight: 160 kg (without battery packs)
Arm span width: 310 cm
Payload (single arm): 10 kg (long range), 14 kg (mid range)
Computers: 4 high-end PCs, 1 GPU
Robotic Framework: ArmarX (previous framework MCA)
Total Height: 192 cm
Software: ArmarX (https://www.armarx.humanoids.kit.edu)
Working height: 0 – 240 cm
Platform speed: 1 m/s
Bus system: CAN-Bus (CANopen)
DoF: 27

Access information

Corresponding infrastructure Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Institute of Anthropomatics and Robotics - High Performance Humanoid Technologies Lab (IAR H2T)
Location

Adenauerring 2,
76131 Karlsruhe,
Germany

Unit of access Working day

Additional information

ArmarX: https://armarx.humanoids.kit.edu

Additional Information: Available here and here.