ARDOP: A Versatile Humanoid Robotic Research Platform

TL;DR

ARDOP is an open-source, modular humanoid robot platform designed to facilitate research in manipulation and perception through versatile hardware and software components, tested in simulation and experiments.

Contribution

This work introduces ARDOP, a cost-effective, customizable humanoid robot platform that supports diverse research applications in robotics.

Findings

Successful performance in simulation tests

Effective perception and manipulation capabilities demonstrated

Platform's modular design enables easy customization

Abstract

This paper describes the development of a humanoid robot called ARDOP. The goal of the project is to provide a modular, open-source, and inexpensive humanoid robot that would enable researchers to answer various problems related to robotic manipulation and perception. ARDOP primarily comprises of two functional units namely the perception and manipulation system, here we discuss the conceptualization and design methodology of these systems and proceed to present their performance results on simulation and various custom-designed experiments.