Designing the NAO Body

Abstract

The study aims to design a more flexible body of NAO robot. We focus on the motor of the NAO robots. But at first, we need to know how a humanoid robot works, and what can be improved at this step. We also need to know the similar kinds of robots existing now, and what are they drawbacks and what are they strong points. Before we analyze the motor, we need to know what we can do with the NAO robot comparing to other robots. Since the motor is the heart of the humanoid robot, so first we should know how it works, and what kinds of motors exist in now. And also we need to know which motor we used in the NAO robot, and what we could do to the motor, what kind of aspects we can improve in it.

The method is using calculation to try to get better statistics which can be applied into practice. Matlab was chosen which is software we can do make statistic visualization and also to analyze the statistic we get, and also to calculate the availability of the motor which is chosen to be used in the NAO robot. In this thesis, we expand the research step by step.

The result is better statistics, but before it can be put into application, it should be considered in many other aspects.