UChile RoadRunners 2010 Team Description Paper

The UChile RoadRunners team is an effort of the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Universidad de Chile. The team participates in the Humanoid League since 2007. This year the team main novelties include: (i) the development of our new humanoid robot UCH H2, (ii) the use of a Atom Z530 1.6GHz based embedded PC running Linux as main processing unit, (iii) a new system for the detection of instability and the avoidance of falls, and (iv) a new real-time hybrid control architecture that incorporates active vision mechanisms.