Remote-Brained Robots

Illustrated Reference Book of Quadruped Robots

last updated on 30th May 1997

Pictures of TAMA (catching a ball)

Name

TAMA

Nickname

Ball-Boy

D.O.F.

leg	:3 x 4 = 12
head	:pan(1),tilt(1),gripper(2)=4

Sensor

CCD camera

Speed

53 cm/sec

Size [mm] (w,h,l)

500 x 230 x 250 (moving)

270 x 230 x 200 (rest)

References

Koji Takeda, Masayuki Inaba, and Hirochika Inoue.
A study on visually guided behaviors of remote-brained ``ball-boy'' robot.
In Proc. JSME Annual Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics(ROBOMEC '94), pp. 77-80, 1994.
Koji Takeda, Tetsushi Oka, Masayuki Inaba, and Hirochika Inoue.
A study on a ``ball-boy'' robot's behavior using a reactive brain system.
In Proc. 12th Annual Conference of Robotcs Society of Japan, pp. 1225-1226, 1994.