This video presents our recent research on the integration of physical human-robot interaction (pHRI) into imitation learning. First, a marker control approach for realtime human motion imitation is shown. Secondly, p...
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This video presents our recent research on the integration of physical human-robot interaction (pHRI) into imitation learning. First, a marker control approach for realtime human motion imitation is shown. Secondly, physical coaching in addition to observational learning is applied for the incremental learning of motion primitives. Last, we extend imitation learning to learning pHRI which includes the establishment of intended physical contacts. The proposed methods were implemented and tested using the IRT humanoid robot and DLR’s humanoid upper-body robot Justin.
For service engineering, a mathematical model of customers is indispensability. This paper presents a design procedure of the service value-sympathy model by utilizing Self-Organizing Map (SOM) to establish a formulat...
For service engineering, a mathematical model of customers is indispensability. This paper presents a design procedure of the service value-sympathy model by utilizing Self-Organizing Map (SOM) to establish a formulation of the model implementable to the service devices. The model is expressed as a mapping function of SOM computed using the questionnaire data on the service recipients, and the questionnaire is designed using results of the qualitative analysis to the service providers. The effectiveness of the design procedure and the modeling method were verified through the case-study of the hotel reception service. Predicting the guest satisfaction using the obtained value-sympathy model, an accuracy of the model and its feasibilities were investigated. Although the matching ratio in the cross-validation was not sufficiently high, a direction to create a new value concerning the service engineering could be shown.
Foot-drop is a common symptom among post stroke patients. It is characterized by the inability of a person to raise his/her foot at the ankle and to drag the toes during swing. To overcome such disability, long-term r...
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Foot-drop is a common symptom among post stroke patients. It is characterized by the inability of a person to raise his/her foot at the ankle and to drag the toes during swing. To overcome such disability, long-term rehabilitation is crucial. However, such treatment might not be accessible to many people, especially those living far from the cities where most of the rehabilitation centers are located. In this paper, we present our interactive rehabilitation system called “E-Wobble” that consists of a modified version of a wobble board mounted with sensors and actuators. The proposed system aims to help patients with foot-drop symptoms so they can train their ankles and toes from home. The E-Wobble tangible interface is associated with a 2D golf game that motivates the patients to spend more time exercising while having fun.
Algorithms for trajectory planning and control for a multiple-vehicles system are investigated. An issue of designing collision-free trajectories on a group of crossing paths is tackled. The trajectories are modeled a...
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Algorithms for trajectory planning and control for a multiple-vehicles system are investigated. An issue of designing collision-free trajectories on a group of crossing paths is tackled. The trajectories are modeled as a set of via-points coupled with their associated achieving time. Furthermore, a tracking controller design dealing with actuators constraints and all via points' achieve times is proposed. By applying the controller, each vehicle is guaranteed to get closer to the desired via-points without any obstacle-avoidance motions. Simulation results showing the generated trajectories and tracking performance is presented.
Abstract Robots are often run with permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSM) with a high ratio gearbox. Both parts can produce parasitic oscillations (ripples), which let the robot shake at tool center point. The gea...
Abstract Robots are often run with permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSM) with a high ratio gearbox. Both parts can produce parasitic oscillations (ripples), which let the robot shake at tool center point. The gearbox ripple problem is more complicated to be solved with control theory because only motor side sensors should be used. Due to the internal model principle gearbox side information is necessary to solve the problem. The first algorithm uses an observer to get gearbox side information where the second algorithm uses a gearbox side rate sensor. The algorithms are tested with a nonlinear SISO problem and with a nonlinear MIMO system. In both cases the ripples are canceled with an adaptive controller which estimates the phase and magnitude of the ripple. This adaptive controller is designed separately and is added to the existing basis controller. The algorithms are tested in simulation and on a testbed, which is an industrial application.
In this paper, a quadruped robot is studied in bounding motion. A new simplified model of quadruped robot in bounding motion with four actuated and two unactuated joints is developed. The kinetic and potential energie...
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In this paper, a quadruped robot is studied in bounding motion. A new simplified model of quadruped robot in bounding motion with four actuated and two unactuated joints is developed. The kinetic and potential energies of the under-actuated mechanical model of the quadruped robot are obtained and the dynamics of the robot model is derived using the Lagrangian method. It is shown that the dynamical equation of the proposed simplified model belongs to a class of second-order nonholonomic mechanical systems. The main motivation of this paper is to obtain quadruped model in bounding motion such that one can apply different control methods directly or after transformation in the obtained dynamic equations. Utilizing MATLAB, dynamics of the planar model has been simulated in backward and forward states. Physical parameters of the Little-Dog robot as an instance of the quadruped robot are considered in simulation The simulation is without control and therefore is unstable but it illustrates robot's manner in bounding motion before instability.
Overhead crane is an industrial structure that is widely used in many harbors and factories. It is usually operated manually or by some conventional control methods. In this paper, we propose a hybrid controller inclu...
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Overhead crane is an industrial structure that is widely used in many harbors and factories. It is usually operated manually or by some conventional control methods. In this paper, we propose a hybrid controller includes both position regulation and anti-swing control. According to Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy model of an overhead crane and genetic algorithm, a fuzzy controller is designed with parallel distributed compensation and Linear Quadratic Regulation. Using genetic algorithm, important fuzzy rules are selected and so the number of rules decreased and design procedure need less computation and its computation needs less time. Further, the stability of the overhead crane with the parallel distributed fuzzy LQR controller is discussed. The stability analysis and control design problems is reduced to linear matrix inequality (LMI) problems. Simulation results illustrated the validity of the proposed parallel distributed fuzzy LQR control method and it was compared with a similar method parallel distributed fuzzy controller with same fuzzy rule set.
In this paper we address the challenges and design considerations to add emotional tag to existing Internet-based social network services. We propose an emotion tagger that takes content from diversified Internet-base...
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In this paper we address the challenges and design considerations to add emotional tag to existing Internet-based social network services. We propose an emotion tagger that takes content from diversified Internet-based services and maps the analyzed content to an emotional value which can be used to augment semantic values of Internet-based service. To show a proof of concept working environment, we add the proposed emotion tagger with our earlier developed context-aware social network framework called SenseFace and investigate the efficiency of the tagger. We finally present our preliminary integration results.
Drivable area detection is an important issue for mobile robot to work in indoor and outdoor environments with safety and security with respect to itself and environment. In this paper, we propose an approach to detec...
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Drivable area detection is an important issue for mobile robot to work in indoor and outdoor environments with safety and security with respect to itself and environment. In this paper, we propose an approach to detect the ground area for indoor mobile robots with binocular cameras. At first, the ground induced homography between onboard binocular cameras is calibrated. In ground area detection, the right eye image is warped to left eye by the homography and subtracted by the left eye image. From the difference image the rough non-ground regions can be detected. Then the closed contours on the difference image and the left eye image are searched to segment them into regions. These corresponding regions are compared to judge whether they belong to ground plane. The conducted experiments show that the proposed method is valid in detecting ground area.
A five-fingered,multi-sensory and biomimetic hand is *** cambered palm is specially designed by utilizing the knowledge of *** position of each finger is arranged according to human hand *** finger with three phalange...
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A five-fingered,multi-sensory and biomimetic hand is *** cambered palm is specially designed by utilizing the knowledge of *** position of each finger is arranged according to human hand *** finger with three phalanges could fulfill flexion-extension movement *** the fingers are designed using coupling link *** location of the thumb is designed by maximizing interaction area between the thumb and other *** opposite thumb could grasp along a cone surface,while maintaining its *** hardware architecture is divided into control system and human-machine interaction *** mechanical parts,sensors and motion control systems are integrated in the hand *** addition,a skin-like glove is designed,which makes the hand more *** to our primary experimental results,the hand can accomplish several grasp modes by applying an intuitive surface electromyography control *** success rate of 10 modes is up to 90%.
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