HUMANOID ROBOT IMPLEMENTING A SPHERICAL HINGE WITH COUPLED ACTUATORS

摘要

The invention relates to a humanoid robot (5) implementing a spherical hinge (10, 100, 200) with coupled actuators, and to a method for implementing said spherical hinge. The invention can particularly be used in the production of humanoid robots which are closer to human anthropomorphism. The hinge (10, 100, 200) connects two members (101, 103; 105, 104; 101, 102) of the robot (5). The hinge is actuated by three actuators (20, 35, 36), wherein the first actuator (35) and the second actuator (36) act in parallel and are coupled together, and the third actuator (20) acts in series relative to the first two actuators about an axis (13). According to the invention, the axis of the third actuator (20) is the axis having the highest angular displacement in order to be closer to human anthropomorphism.