The lack of force feedback is considered one of the major limitations in Robot Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgeries. Since add-on sensors are not a practical solution for clinical environments, in this paper we prese...
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The lack of force feedback is considered one of the major limitations in Robot Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgeries. Since add-on sensors are not a practical solution for clinical environments, in this paper we present a force estimation approach that starts with the reconstruction of a 3D deformation structure of the tissue surface by minimizing an energy functional. A Recurrent Neural Network-Long Short Term Memory (RNN-LSTM) based architecture is then presented to accurately estimate the applied forces. According to the results, our solution offers long-term stability and shows a significant percentage of accuracy improvement, ranging from about 54% to 78%, over existing approaches.
Learning motor skills for robots is a hard task. In particular, a high number of degrees-of-freedom in the robot can pose serious challenges to existing reinforcement learning methods, since it leads to a high-dimensi...
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Many planning problems for robots are of considerable interest. In this paper, we consider the discrete minimum constraint removal motion planning problem that can be used for a motion planning formulation with explan...
Many planning problems for robots are of considerable interest. In this paper, we consider the discrete minimum constraint removal motion planning problem that can be used for a motion planning formulation with explanations for failure. We consider an efficient approach to solve the problem. In particular, we consider an explicit reduction from the decision version of the problem to the satisfiability problem. We present the results of computational experiments for different satisfiability algorithms.
Problems of swarm robotics are extensively studied in contemporary robotics. In this paper, we consider the problem of robot swarms control with only global signals. We propose an efficient approach to solve the probl...
Problems of swarm robotics are extensively studied in contemporary robotics. In this paper, we consider the problem of robot swarms control with only global signals. We propose an efficient approach to solve the problem. In particular, we consider an explicit reduction from the decision version of the problem to the satisfiability problem. For different satisfiability algorithms, we present the results of computational experiments.
Synchronisation is an essential part of many controlled dynamical systems, in particular in the limb motion of legged robots. In this paper we introduce a novel control strategy that allows synchronisation of two osci...
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Synchronisation is an essential part of many controlled dynamical systems, in particular in the limb motion of legged robots. In this paper we introduce a novel control strategy that allows synchronisation of two oscillators without using any external power, but by modulating the power flow between the two oscillators. We then derive a separate energy-level controller that regulates the oscillation amplitude, again without changing the system's total energy. Finally, we show that the strategy works on a realistic mechanical system, by synchronising the phase difference and apex height of two bouncing masses.
This paper presents a versatile control architecture for aerial robots in interactive tasks. The control architecture is characterized by its unique capability of varying the apparent impedance of the controlled aeria...
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(纸本)9781479969357
This paper presents a versatile control architecture for aerial robots in interactive tasks. The control architecture is characterized by its unique capability of varying the apparent impedance of the controlled aerial robot as well as the interaction force, when in contact. This work finds its way in various applications where different impedance and interaction force controllers provide high task performances as well as safety. The feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed controller are demonstrated by experimental results preformed on a quadrotor aerial robot.
Road network maps have been used for autonomous vehicle path planning. These maps are basically formed by GPS waypoints and can contain semantic information about the environment to help following traffic codes. This ...
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Road network maps have been used for autonomous vehicle path planning. These maps are basically formed by GPS waypoints and can contain semantic information about the environment to help following traffic codes. This paper describes a novel method for automatic construction of a waypoint map containing semantic information about roads. The collected GPS points are stored into flexible waypoint data structures that can represent any relevant information for vehicle navigation. The mapping method also reduces the amount of waypoints by recognizing and converting them into traffic structures. The resulting waypoint map is stored in a text file which is both human and machine-readable. This work makes part of Carina II platform, an autonomous vehicle under development in the Mobile robotics Laboratory (LRM) - ICMC/USP. Tests were conducted in urban environment and the resulting maps were consistent when compared to publicly available satellite maps.
For such common tasks as motion planning or object recognition robots need to perceive their environment and create a dense 3D map of it. A recent breakthrough in this area was the KinectFusion algorithm [16], which r...
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(纸本)9781479969357
For such common tasks as motion planning or object recognition robots need to perceive their environment and create a dense 3D map of it. A recent breakthrough in this area was the KinectFusion algorithm [16], which relies on step by step matching a depth image to the map via ICP to recover the sensor pose and updating the map based on that pose. In so far it ignores techniques developed in the graph-SLAM area such as fusion with odometry, modeling of uncertainty and distributing an observed inconsistency over the map. This paper presents a method to integrate a dense geometric truncated signed distance function (TSDF) representation as KinectFusion uses with a sparse parametric representation as common in graph SLAM. The key idea is to have local TSDF sub-maps attached to reference nodes in the SLAM graph and derive graph-SLAM links via ICP by matching a map to a depth image. By moving these reference nodes according to the graph-SLAM estimate, the overall map can be deformed without touching individual sub-maps so that re-building of sub-maps is only needed in case of significant deformation within a sub-map. Also, further information can be added to the graph as common in graph SLAM. Examples are odometry or the fact that the ground is roughly but not exactly planar. Additionally, the paper proposes a modification of the KinectFusion algorithm to improve handling of long range data by taking the range dependent uncertainty into account.
This paper presents an improved method to teleoperate impedance of a robot based on surface electromyography (EMG) and test it experimentally. Based on a linear mapping between EMG amplitude and stiffness, an incremen...
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Learning motor skills for robots is a hard task. In particular, a high number of degrees-of-freedom in the robot can pose serious challenges to existing reinforcement learning methods, since it leads to a high-dimensi...
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(纸本)9781479969357
Learning motor skills for robots is a hard task. In particular, a high number of degrees-of-freedom in the robot can pose serious challenges to existing reinforcement learning methods, since it leads to a high-dimensional search space. However, complex robots are often intrinsically redundant systems and, therefore, can be controlled using a latent manifold of much smaller dimensionality. In this paper, we present a novel policy search method that performs efficient reinforcement learning by uncovering the low-dimensional latent space of actuator redundancies. In contrast to previous attempts at combining reinforcement learning and dimensionality reduction, our approach does not perform dimensionality reduction as a preprocessing step but naturally combines it with policy search. Our evaluations show that the new approach outperforms existing algorithms for learning motor skills with high-dimensional robots.
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