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  • Posture control is crucial for human and humanoid robot sensorimotor tasks, especially on uneven terrain or during environmental interaction.
  • Advancing humanoid robot development necessitates standardized benchmarking for posture control mechanisms.
  • Existing robot diversity requires focusing on fundamental posture control principles that ensure versatility and robustness.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose standardized robot tests for evaluating standing balance, drawing inspiration from human sensorimotor systems.
  • To focus on basic posture control mechanisms, specifically sagittal plane balancing at the ankle and hip joints.
  • To address key aspects of human balancing relevant to humanoid bipeds: response to physical disturbances, interaction with voluntary movements, and inter-joint coordination.

Main Methods:

  • Development of robot tests inspired by human sensorimotor system balancing strategies.
  • Focus on whole-body balancing in the sagittal plane around ankle and hip joints.
  • Inclusion of tests for reactive and proactive balancing against external and self-produced disturbances, and ankle-hip coordination.

Main Results:

  • Proposed tests abstract from manifold tasks by targeting four basic physical disturbances: support surface tilt/translation, field, and contact forces.
  • Tests incorporate both reactive balancing to external disturbances and proactive balancing against self-produced disturbances.
  • Ankle-hip coordination is included to assess functional cooperation and coordination across degrees of freedom.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed benchmarking tests provide a standardized method for evaluating humanoid robot standing balance.
  • These tests focus on fundamental posture control mechanisms, promoting versatility and robustness in robots.
  • The benchmarking concept is adaptable for wearable robots and can incorporate human-likeness features for reference.