Humanoid Robot Project
– SURALP
Sabancı
Üniversitesi
Robot Araştırmaları Laboratuvar
Platformu
SURALP is a walking humanoid robot platform designed at
Sabancı University members who contributed to the design,
production
and control system creation of SURALP from 2002 to 2010:
Associate Professor Kemalettin Erbatur: Humanoid Robot Research
Team
Leader
Dr. Özkan Bebek: Graduate Student, 2002-2003
Dr. Yasser Elkahlout: Graduate Student, 2002-2003
Ozan Ayhan: Graduate Student, 2003-2004
Okan Kurt: Graduate Student, 2004-2006
Utku Seven: Graduate Student, 2005-2007, Doctoral Student, 2007-…
Evrim Taşkıran: Graduate Student, 2007-2009
Özer Koca: Graduate Student, 2007-2009
Metin Yılmaz: Graduate Student, 2008-2010
Kaan Can Fidan: Graduate Student, 2010-…
Tunç Akbaş: Graduate Student, 2010-…
As part of the TÜBİTAK project 106E040 from 2006 to 2009, Sabancı
University
Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences Mechatronic Engineering
Program
faculty members Professor Asif Şabanoviç, Associate Professor Mustafa
Ünel,
Assistant Professor Güllü Kızıltaş and Assistant Professor Ahmet Onat
assisted
the project.
Dimensions:
Kinematic arrangement:
Timeline:
January
2008
The leg module of the robot and the trunk is
assembled.
May 2008
The leg module walks.
June 2008
The platform is named SURALP for Sabancı University Robotics
Research Laboratory Platform.
The leg module is named SURALP-L.
July 2008 Video
January
2009 Pictures
August
2009 videos
SURALP
walks with
Zero Moment Point based reference trajectories. (Video by Bora
Bekiroğlu)
Walk on uneven surfaces with Zero Moment Point based reference trajectories. (Video by Bora Bekiroğlu)
SURALP pushes the wall and re-establishes balance. (Video by Bora Bekiroğlu)
Object
manipulation,
force and vision feedback
Arm, waist and neck motion
SURALP
introduced to the public - October 2010