In this paper we describe the construction of a wearable upper arm exoskeleton to provide support for industrial workers who engaged in repetitive handling tasks and patients who full or partial loss of function in th...
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Advanced interactive methods between users and lower-limb exoskeletons are gradually drawing attention. Muscle fatigue is regarded as a significant contributory factor in muscle injuries and low work efficiency which ...
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(数字)9781728172934
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(纸本)9781728172941
Advanced interactive methods between users and lower-limb exoskeletons are gradually drawing attention. Muscle fatigue is regarded as a significant contributory factor in muscle injuries and low work efficiency which is harmful to human-robot interactions. The detection and quantification of muscle fatigue during dynamic contractions remain as a challenging research. In this research, we introduce a novel method called Wavelet Packet Energy Entropy (WPEE) to quantify the muscle fatigue based on sEMG during dynamic contractions. Fatigue experiments and exoskeleton experiments are executed and three healthy subjects complete these experiments. sEMG signals from six muscles of arms are selected and analyzed. The results derived from fatigue experiments validate that the introduced method is better at quantifying the muscle fatigue compared with traditional method mean power frequency (MNF). WPEE is applied in exoskeleton experiments to investigate the arms' muscle fatigue under three conditions. The quantitative results detailly express the user's muscle fatigue condition and fatigue trends when the user is using an exoskeleton with crutches. Considering the muscle fatigue will contribute to ergonomic design and high-quality interactive control of exoskeleton.
The approach of feature-based visual SLAM is very popular in Micro Aerial Vehicle (MAV) navigation and wheeled mobile robot (WMR) navigation. Most modern feature-based visual SLAM frameworks extract a fixed number of ...
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Traditional optimization algorithms search for a single global optimum that maximizes (or minimizes) the objective function. Multimodal optimization algorithms search for the highest peaks in the search space that can...
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This paper presents a novel nonlinear disturbance rejection control for hydraulic robots. This method requires two third-order filters as well as inverse dynamics in order to estimate the disturbances. All the paramet...
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(纸本)9781728103785;9781728103778
This paper presents a novel nonlinear disturbance rejection control for hydraulic robots. This method requires two third-order filters as well as inverse dynamics in order to estimate the disturbances. All the parameters for the third-order filters are pre-defined. The proposed method is nonlinear, which does not require the linearization of the rigid body dynamics. The estimated disturbances are used by the nonlinear controller in order to achieve disturbance attenuation. The performance of the proposed approach is compared with existing approaches. Finally, the tracking performance and robustness of the proposed approach is validated extensively on real hardware by performing different tasks under either internal or both internal and external disturbances. The experimental results demonstrate the robustness and superior tracking performance of the proposed approach.
This paper presents a state and state-input constrained variant of the discrete-time iterative Linear Quadratic Regulator (iLQR) algorithm, with linear time-complexity in the number of time steps. The approach is base...
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Binocular depth estimation is a hot research topic in computer vision. Traditional methods need high precision camera calibration and key point matching, but the results are not ideal. In this paper, we introduce an a...
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In this paper, we propose a new single shot method for multi-person 3D human pose estimation in complex images. The model jointly learns to locate the human joints in the image, to estimate their 3D coordinates and to...
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Simultaneous Localization and Mapping, commonly known as SLAM, has been an active research area in the field of robotics over the past three decades. For solving the SLAM problem, every robot is equipped with either a...
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Simultaneous Localization and Mapping, commonly known as SLAM, has been an active research area in the field of robotics over the past three decades. For solving the SLAM problem, every robot is equipped with either a...
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Simultaneous Localization and Mapping, commonly known as SLAM, has been an active research area in the field of robotics over the past three decades. For solving the SLAM problem, every robot is equipped with either a single sensor or a combination of similar/different sensors. This paper attempts to review, discuss, evaluate and compare these sensors. Keeping an eye on future, this paper also assesses the characteristics of these sensors against factors critical to the long-term autonomy challenge.
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