{"title":"Multi objective optimization of humanoid robot arm motion for obstacle avoidance","authors":"Z. Mohamed, G. Capi","doi":"10.1109/IRIS.2015.7451596","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IRIS.2015.7451596","url":null,"abstract":"Picking and placing objects on the table for an assistive humanoid robot requires good coordination and motion strategies. Obstacle avoidance is one of the main factor needs to be considered. In this paper, the arm motion generation for obstacle avoidance is formulated as an optimization problem. Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm (MOGA) is utilized to generate the neural controller, optimizing three objective functions namely minimum execution time, minimum gripper distance and minimum arm acceleration. The main advantage of the proposed method is that in a single run of MOGA, multiple optimized neural controllers are generated. A wide range of initial and goal position can be achieved utilizing the same generated neural controller. The performance of the generated humanoid robot arm motion yields good results in simulation and experimental environments.","PeriodicalId":175861,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Symposium on Robotics and Intelligent Sensors (IRIS)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123610547","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":"The estimation of Knee Joint angle based on Generalized Regression Neural Network (GRNN)","authors":"T. Anwar, Y. Aung, Adel Al-Jumaily","doi":"10.1109/IRIS.2015.7451613","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IRIS.2015.7451613","url":null,"abstract":"Capturing of the intended action of the patient and provide assistance as needed is required in the robotic rehabilitation device. The intended action data that can be extracted from surface Electromyography (sEMG) signal may include the intended posture, intended torque, intended knee joint angle and intended desired impedance of the patient. Utilizing such data to drive robotic assistive device like exoskeleton requires a multilayer control mechanism to achieve a smooth Human Machine Interaction force. It is very important that the controller for gait assistive device is able to extract as many information as possible from the patient muscle with impaired limb and predict different parameters associated with gait cycle. Joint kinematics and dynamics are important to be estimated as the Gait cycle of lower limb consists of flexion and extension postures at knee, hip and ankle joints respectively. This paper proposes a new classification and estimation technique of the lower limb joint kinematics and dynamics based on sEMG signal to predict specifically knee joint flexion and extension postures as well as Knee Joint angles of two postures. In the technique proposed, the feature data of raw sEMG data have been filtered with a second order digital filter and then input to train the Neural Network (NN) and to Generalized Regression Neural Network (GRNN) model to estimate the angle of flexion and extension. The GRNN and NN have been tested with RMS, LOG, MAV, IAV, Hjorth, VAR and MSWT features. GRNN with Multi scale Wavelet Transform (MSWT) feature has ensured 1.5704 Mean Square Error which is very promising accuracy. The SVM has been used to predict postures (flexion and extension). The SVM also has classified flexion and extension with accuracy over 95%.","PeriodicalId":175861,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Symposium on Robotics and Intelligent Sensors (IRIS)","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132428542","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}
Mohd Zaki bin Ghazali, M. F. Miskon, Fariz bin Ali, Mohd Bazli bin Bahar
{"title":"Investigating the relationship between TIP and three-link models when the mass are varied","authors":"Mohd Zaki bin Ghazali, M. F. Miskon, Fariz bin Ali, Mohd Bazli bin Bahar","doi":"10.1109/IRIS.2015.7451611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IRIS.2015.7451611","url":null,"abstract":"In Humanoid robotics field, capability to perform any task that imitates human movement has been the major research focus. One of the critical movements is the Sit to Stand (STS) motion. STS motion can be predicted using three-link (3L) robot inverse kinematic and dynamic model. 3L multi segments is quite complicated and requires high computational resources to calculate. Telescopic Inverted Pendulum (TIP) is another model that much simpler for planning and analyzing humanoid robot since it represent whole body with one single link. However it is not clear whether TIP can represent 3L multi segment robot yet. Thus, this paper objective is to find the relationship between TIP and 3L model when the mass is varied. To do so, simulation setup for 3L and TIP model is developed using MATLAB. The torque values at each joint are observed to obtain the relationship between mass and the torque. The results show that both TIP and 3L model give a similarity result where mass and torque change in linear. For every drop of mass, the torque is also decrease.","PeriodicalId":175861,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Symposium on Robotics and Intelligent Sensors (IRIS)","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120956716","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}
Nurul Dayana Salim, Dafizal Derawi, H. Zamzuri, Mohd Azizi Abdul Rahman, K. Nonami
{"title":"Robust position hold control of hexarotor UAVs","authors":"Nurul Dayana Salim, Dafizal Derawi, H. Zamzuri, Mohd Azizi Abdul Rahman, K. Nonami","doi":"10.1109/IRIS.2015.7451580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IRIS.2015.7451580","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a practical robust position hold control design for hexarotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) under the effects of uncertainties (equivalent disturbance) which contain external disturbances, nonlinear dynamics, coupling, and parametric uncertainties. The proposed controller has three main loops which are position-xy, altitude, and attitude loop. Thenominal linear time-invariant controller is designed for each loop based on cascade proportional-integral-derivative (PID) method while a robust compensator based on second order robust filter is added on attitude loop in order to improve the attitude tracking performance when the hexarotor leaves the nominal conditions due to presence of uncertainties. The experimental results prove the effectiveness of proposed controller to reduce and bind the attitude tracking errors at certain boundaries and demonstrate the ability of controller to hold the vehicle position in the outdoor flight environment.","PeriodicalId":175861,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Symposium on Robotics and Intelligent Sensors (IRIS)","volume":"281 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121366451","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}
Mohd Bazli Bahar, M. F. Miskon, F. Ali, A. Shukor, M. Jamaludin
{"title":"Investigating the relation between standing period and stability of humanoid robot when performing STS motion","authors":"Mohd Bazli Bahar, M. F. Miskon, F. Ali, A. Shukor, M. Jamaludin","doi":"10.1109/IRIS.2015.7451594","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IRIS.2015.7451594","url":null,"abstract":"The main challenge in STS is addressing the lift-off from chair problem. In solving the problem, two method was proposed, 1) phase and trajectory planning based on the Alexander STS technique and 2) motion control which applied IF-THEN rules to control the action given (direction and gain) with aid of proportional velocity control. This paper discussed on the trajectory planning to perform STS motion by, 1) Observation of the relationship between standing velocity i.e standing period, Ts with the stability of the STS motion and 2) Introduce a limitation on body's angular direction in y-axis on saggital plane, angle y. Nao humanoid robot is used to perform the task. Angle y trajectory and centre of pressure, CoP reading was measured to validate the proposed method. The results show that Standing period, Ts plays important role in order to perform a stable STS motion where stability increased as Ts increased. The lowest RMSE is 8.83° when Ts = 3.0. When the forward momentum decreasing with the implementation of angle y trajectory limitation, the results shows RMSE increased as Ts increased. However, the lowest RMSE is 7.07° when Ts = 1.5 where RMSE was decreased while using much lower standing period, Ts. The proposed angle y limitation has improved the motion stability and able to perform the task faster.","PeriodicalId":175861,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Symposium on Robotics and Intelligent Sensors (IRIS)","volume":"2014 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128196784","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}
Gonzalo Aguirre Dominguez, Mitsuhiro Kamezaki, Morgan French, S. Sugano
{"title":"Modelling and simulation of a new magnetorheological linear device","authors":"Gonzalo Aguirre Dominguez, Mitsuhiro Kamezaki, Morgan French, S. Sugano","doi":"10.1109/IRIS.2015.7451618","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IRIS.2015.7451618","url":null,"abstract":"Interaction between humans and robots is expected to increase in the coming years. In order to ensure safety for the robot, its environment, and the people around it, it is necessary to have robust compliance actuation. Mechanically compliant devices such as magnetorheological actuators can ensure a high degree of safety through their intrinsic properties. This paper presents the modelling of a new kind of magnetorheological piston intended for linear actuation. An analysis using the reluctance method and an approximation of the Buckingham Reiner equation are used to develop the electromagnetic and hydraulic equations respectively, and key parameters of the system are presented. A simulation is done to evaluate the theoretical performance of the new piston design, its results are compared and validated by the experimental data obtained from a prototype. The simulation results show the capacity of the device for compliant actuation.","PeriodicalId":175861,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Symposium on Robotics and Intelligent Sensors (IRIS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129872010","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}