H. Kino, Hiroaki Ochi, K. Tahara, Yuki Matsutani, R. Ishibashi
{"title":"Study of human motion generation based on redundancy of musculoskeletal structure: Analysis of potential generated by internal force for two-link system","authors":"H. Kino, Hiroaki Ochi, K. Tahara, Yuki Matsutani, R. Ishibashi","doi":"10.1109/ARSO.2013.6705497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ARSO.2013.6705497","url":null,"abstract":"The human body has a musculoskeletal system with the muscles which exist around the bones and joints. Taking notice of the structural characteristics that a human possesses inherently, this paper analyzes feedforward position control for the musculoskeletal system. The feedforward positioning does not need any sensory feedback by use of internal force balancing at a desired posture. Targeting a non-pulley musculoskeletal system with two links and six muscles, this paper clarifies mathematical conditions of the feedforward positioning to converge at a desired posture. In the analysis, muscular length is approximated by Taylor expansion. Based on quasi-statical approach, the convergent conditions are clarified. The verification of the conditions is conducted through simulation.","PeriodicalId":122236,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121023950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Takuma Tsuji, Hiroshi Yamakawa, A. Yamashita, K. Takakusaki, Takaki Maeda, Motoichiro Kato, H. Oka, H. Asama
{"title":"Analysis of electromyography and skin conductance response during rubber hand illusion","authors":"Takuma Tsuji, Hiroshi Yamakawa, A. Yamashita, K. Takakusaki, Takaki Maeda, Motoichiro Kato, H. Oka, H. Asama","doi":"10.1109/ARSO.2013.6705511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ARSO.2013.6705511","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, the rubber hand illusion (RHI), which is one of phenomena that the sense of ownership is extended to the objects over the external area, attracts much attention to explain the brain mechanism of self body recognition of human. However, most previous research have only focused on the conditions for the occurrence of the RHI. In this study, we measured the electromyography (EMG) of the arm and the skin conductance response (SCR) of the end of the finger when the strong blow with a hammer would be given to the fake hand in order to examine whether the RHI is in fact occurred to the subject at a certain time during the experiment. As a result, we showed that the measurement of the EMG could satisfy above requirement and it is implied that the measurement of EMG gets closer to the tendency of introspection report than that of SCR.","PeriodicalId":122236,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125314743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards autonomous excavation by hydraulic excavator — Measurement and consideration on bucket posture and body stress in digging works","authors":"K. Fujino, M. Moteki, Akihiko Nishiyama, S. Yuta","doi":"10.1109/ARSO.2013.6705534","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ARSO.2013.6705534","url":null,"abstract":"The Public Works Research Institute (PWRI) has conducted research on the autonomous control of construction machines to eliminate dangerous and laborsome work and has achieved automated execution of excavation and loading in a limited field. This automatic system, however, is not yet fully capable of adjusting to various soil and excavation conditions that are present during restoration work at disaster sites, the originally intended situation for unmanned construction. Basic experiment data then became necessary for us to realize automatic generation of a movement plan to cope with various work operations such as on-slope excavation and the various ground conditions resulting from things such as physical properties or the strength of quarried stone or sediments, and the control of remote-controlled construction machines under such varying conditions. This paper details the experiment we conducted to clarify the relationship between loads working on excavation and strain acting on the bucket link, with the posture and moving direction of the hydraulic shovel as parameters, and describes the basic data necessary to Automatic Control Technology coping with various phenomena at an actual site (such as obstacles).","PeriodicalId":122236,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts","volume":"145 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122684465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yuki Matsutani, Hiroaki Ochi, H. Kino, K. Tahara, Motoji Yamamoto
{"title":"Feed-forward positioning of musculoskeletal-like robotic systems with muscular viscosity: Determination of an adequate internal force","authors":"Yuki Matsutani, Hiroaki Ochi, H. Kino, K. Tahara, Motoji Yamamoto","doi":"10.1109/ARSO.2013.6705498","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ARSO.2013.6705498","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a new feed-forward positioning method for a musculoskeletal-like robotic system considering a muscle-like nonlinear viscosity, and a new determination method of the internal force using the reinforcement learning scheme. In our previous works, a feed-forward positioning method for the musculoskeletal-like robotic systems has been proposed. In the method, the position regulation of the system can be accomplished by inputting a desired internal force balancing at a desired position. It has been quite effective for the muscle-like driven mechanism because no sensor is necessary to regulate the position. However, this method often induces an overshoot phenomenon when performing a set-point control. In addition, there is another intrinsic problem that musculoskeletal-like redundant-driven mechanisms own the ill-posed problems that the internal force is unable to determine uniquely. In this paper, for the farmer problem, a muscle-like nonlinear viscosity is newly added to the controller to reduce such an overshoot phenomenon and then to expand the stable region of the manipulator. For the latter problem, a determination method of the internal force using a reinforcement learning scheme is newly proposed. In what follows, firstly a new feed-forward controller which considers the muscle-like viscosity is introduced, and shows its effectiveness through numerical simulations. Next, the determination method of the internal force using a reinforcement learning scheme is proposed and its effectiveness is also shown through numerical simulations.","PeriodicalId":122236,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124407294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Gaussian Particle Filter based Factorised Solution to the Simultaneous Localization and Mapping problem","authors":"Akshay Rao, Han Wang, Zhen-Cheng Hu, J. Mullane","doi":"10.1109/ARSO.2013.6705515","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ARSO.2013.6705515","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a Gaussian Particle Filter based solution to the Simultaneous Localization and Mapping problem. Conventional SLAM algorithms estimate the map and the vehicle trajectory using either an Extended Kalman Filter (EKF), or a combination of EKF's and particle filters, both of which have their inherent drawbacks which may result in the state estimate diverging from the true solution over time. In this paper, we will analyze these problems, and propose a solution in the form of the Gaussian Particle Filter based Factorised Solution to the SLAM (GPF-FastSLAM) algorithm. We will formulate the GPF-FastSLAM algorithm, and implement it in a simulated environment. The results obtained will be compared to the results from EKF-SLAM and FastSLAM algorithms. We will then further demonstrate the efficacy of the GPF-SLAM algorithm using data obtained in a high clutter filled marine environment, and compare the resulting estimate with EKF-SLAM and FastSLAM algorithms.","PeriodicalId":122236,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129737037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Solis, Ken'ichi Ozawa, K. Petersen, A. Takanishi
{"title":"Design and development of a new biologically-inspired mouth mechanism and musical performance evaluation of the WF-4RVI","authors":"J. Solis, Ken'ichi Ozawa, K. Petersen, A. Takanishi","doi":"10.1109/ARSO.2013.6705529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ARSO.2013.6705529","url":null,"abstract":"The research on the development of the anthropomorphic flutist robot at Waseda University has been focused in emulating the anatomy and physiology of the organs involved during the flute playing from an engineering point of view, facilitating the symbiosis between the human and the robot (i.e. active interaction between musician and musical robot) and proposing novel applications for humanoid robots (i.e. music education). As a result of this research, the Waseda Flutist Robot No.4 Refined IV has been developed and a musical-based interaction system implemented so the robot is capable of interacting with musicians by processing both aural and visual cues. However; there is a trade-off relationship between the duration of the flute sound produced by the robot and the sound pressure (volume). In fact, the robot is only capable of playing sounds low-pitched sounds for long periods. In addition, a husky sound is detected while playing high-pitch sounds. From our discussions with professional players, this effect is caused due to the inner shape of the oral cavity. From this, the conversion efficiency ratio between from the exhaled air from the artificial lungs to the produced sound is too low. For this purpose, we have obtained MR images of the head from professional players in order to re-design the oral cavity of the flutist robot. A total of 5 prototypes were tested and the best one has been selected and integrated into the Waseda Flutist Robot No. 4 Refined VI (WF-4RVI). A set of experiments were proposed in order to verify the improvements of the conversion efficiency ratio as well as the sound evaluation function score. From the experimental results, we could verify the improvements compared with the previous version of the flutist robot.","PeriodicalId":122236,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122220413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Wesley P. Chan, Iori Kumagai, Shunichi Nozawa, Youhei Kakiuchi, K. Okada, M. Inaba
{"title":"Creating socially acceptable robots: Leaning grasp configurations for object handovers from demonstrations","authors":"Wesley P. Chan, Iori Kumagai, Shunichi Nozawa, Youhei Kakiuchi, K. Okada, M. Inaba","doi":"10.1109/ARSO.2013.6705512","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ARSO.2013.6705512","url":null,"abstract":"Object handover is a basic task that is found in many human-robot cooperation scenarios. If we are to build socially acceptable robots, we need to enable robots to perform handovers properly. In this paper, we discuss some of the social implications of proper robot-human handovers, and we focus on the challenge of determining a proper grasp configuration when handing over an object. We propose a framework that enables a robot to learn proper grasp configurations for handovers through observations. Our aim is to eliminate the need for manually specifying grasp configurations information to the robot, and allow generalization of handover grasp configurations for known objects to unknown objects. We are currently implementing our proposed framework onto an HRP4R robot, and we discuss about our plans for conducting user studies to evaluate our system upon its completion.","PeriodicalId":122236,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts","volume":"34 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114095082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kunimatsu Hashimoto, F. Saito, Takashi Yamamoto, Koichi Ikeda
{"title":"A field study of the human support robot in the home environment","authors":"Kunimatsu Hashimoto, F. Saito, Takashi Yamamoto, Koichi Ikeda","doi":"10.1109/ARSO.2013.6705520","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ARSO.2013.6705520","url":null,"abstract":"As concern for Japan's aging population and shrinking workforce continues to mount, many researchers are focusing on nursing and healthcare-related robots to help ease the burden on society. In order to successfully integrate robots into the home environment to coexist with family members, three features are considered essential: safe interaction, a compact and lightweight body, and a simple interface. In this paper the authors introduce a robot that possesses these qualities: the human support robot (HSR). The current prototype HSR is designed to support independent living of persons with limited limb mobility. This paper discusses the development of the HSR and the results of user testing conducted in the homes of two persons with disabilities.","PeriodicalId":122236,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121572180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ben Allan, G. Endo, Yu Iemura, E. F. Fukushima, M. Iribe, Toshio Takubo, M. Ohira
{"title":"Robot development in cooperation with patients: Application of Hyper-Tether to support Home Oxygen Therapy patients","authors":"Ben Allan, G. Endo, Yu Iemura, E. F. Fukushima, M. Iribe, Toshio Takubo, M. Ohira","doi":"10.1109/ARSO.2013.6705502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ARSO.2013.6705502","url":null,"abstract":"Hyper-Tether is a highly functional system which uses tethers to connect a wide range of robots, vehicles and humans. Home Oxygen Therapy (H.O.T.) is a medical treatment for severe lung diseases in which the patients are supplied concentrated oxygen through a cannula. The need to carry a portable oxygen supply device limits the quality of life of the patients, and so we have designed a robot follower using Hyper-Tether. The robot, which can carry an oxygen tank and follow behind the patient, was tested by H.O.T. users and evaluated using questionnaires. This paper describes the development and testing of the robot follower, with particular focus on iterative design based on patients' feedback.","PeriodicalId":122236,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127784862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Takeuchi, T. Yoshimi, Ken Hashimoto, Toru Tanaka
{"title":"Consideration and Evaluation of benefits of human shaped service robots [The report of experimental introduction to a shopping center]","authors":"K. Takeuchi, T. Yoshimi, Ken Hashimoto, Toru Tanaka","doi":"10.1109/ARSO.2013.6705522","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ARSO.2013.6705522","url":null,"abstract":"In Japan, human shaped service robots have rarely become commercial products so far and have not been widely utilized in actual fields. The reason is that people cannot determine clear objective for using these robots, and hence its usefulness or necessity are not valued. To clear these doubts, we have experimentally introduced a human shaped service robot to a shopping center, and clarified its benefits and issues. This paper describes the contents and results of our experiment. At the end of the article, we present the strategy how service robots could be used more effectively in various situations and how they could be expanded in Japan.","PeriodicalId":122236,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129396615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}