Abstract
We started to participate in RoboCup humanoid league. Based on the previous experience, more lightweight robots are needed for this application. Then we adopted a commercial legged robot "e-nuvo" by ZMP Inc., and added two arms as well as a camera, a board PC and batteries. Total weight of the new humanoid robot is 1.8kg, which is only 0.5kg bigger than the weight of the original e-nuvo. Two arms are driven by the same processor with other leg angles and incorporated in the same architecture, so that the arms are controlled in the same software system. We adopted OpenCV on Windows for the image processing library, and implemented image recognition modules to detect ball and goal positions. We are now developing the total software system that is sufficient for the RoboCup competition.
