Development of a humanoid robot platform

Abstract

This paper describes the design of a humanoid robot platform built for research purpose. A high performance micro signal architecture Blackfin processor is used as the center of the All-in-One hardware design. All of the accessories including video camera, audio mic, inertial measurement unit, wireless data adapter and servos are directly connected to the processor. The software architecture is designed in multi-layers to support both low level data stream and high level intelligent algorithm. A humanoid robot prototype is built based on the platform.