{"title":"A complete framework for personalised modeling and control of children's cerebral palsy","authors":"Sabrina Otmani, G. Michon, B. Watier","doi":"10.1109/Humanoids53995.2022.10000230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/Humanoids53995.2022.10000230","url":null,"abstract":"Two 9 years old twin sisters, one with spastic cerebral palsy (C) and the other healthy (H) without any impairments, performed the pendulum drop test with EMG acquisitions. The purpose of this paper is to present a way to model the knee's spastic angular displacement of C and H using mechanical differential equations. Then, we propose a controller to correct the knee's angular displacement of C. and make it converge towards the one of H. To this end, we use a PID controller to correct the angular position. Both models of the spasticity and the controller were computed using a genetic algorithm (GA). Angular trajectories were modeled with a determination coefficient ($R^{2}$) higher than 95% for both spastic and non-spastic cases, and $R^{2}$ > 87% for the corrected angular position of C.","PeriodicalId":180816,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE-RAS 21st International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124146828","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":"From Offline to Online: A Perception-Based Local Planner for Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance","authors":"L. Rossini, N. Tsagarakis","doi":"10.1109/Humanoids53995.2022.10000245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/Humanoids53995.2022.10000245","url":null,"abstract":"The deployment of robots within realistic environments necessitates robots to be capable of replanning their loco-manipulation trajectories on the fly to avoid unexpected interactions that may occur due to the uncertainty that is present in such dynamic and varying workspaces. This work introduces a novel method for the online local replanning of precomputed global trajectories for redoundant robots. The local nature of the problem leads to a sparse system that a hyper-graph can encode more intuitively. Using a graph, we can also store the entire global trajectory, preventing the local planner from getting stuck in local minima, and vertices and edges can be dynamically added or removed to ignore those constraints that do not interfere with the local problem, further increasing the computational efficiency. This process is accompanied by a control layer that iteratively takes the online refined solution and safely moves the robot. The method is validated both in simulation and experimentally on the wheeled-legged quadrupedal robot CENTAURO, demonstrating its effectiveness in replanning online the loco-manipulation trajectories of the robot under the occurrence of obstacles that intervene with the initially planned trajectories.","PeriodicalId":180816,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE-RAS 21st International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids)","volume":"285 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120874568","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}
João Carvalho, Dorothea Koert, Marek Daniv, Jan Peters
{"title":"Adapting Object-Centric Probabilistic Movement Primitives with Residual Reinforcement Learning","authors":"João Carvalho, Dorothea Koert, Marek Daniv, Jan Peters","doi":"10.1109/Humanoids53995.2022.10000148","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/Humanoids53995.2022.10000148","url":null,"abstract":"It is desirable for future robots to quickly learn new tasks and adapt learned skills to constantly changing environments. To this end, Probabilistic Movement Primitives (ProMPs) have shown to be a promising framework to learn generalizable trajectory generators from distributions over demonstrated trajectories. However, in practical applications that require high precision in the manipulation of objects, the accuracy of ProMPs is often insufficient, in particular when they are learned in cartesian space from external observations and executed with limited controller gains. Therefore, we propose to combine ProMPs with the Residual Reinforcement Learning (RRL) framework, to account for both, corrections in position and orientation during task execution. In particular, we learn a residual on top of a nominal ProMP trajectory with Soft Actor-Critic and incorporate the variability in the demonstrations as a decision variable to reduce the search space for RRL. As a proof of concept, we evaluate our proposed method on a 3D block insertion task with a 7-DoF Franka Emika Panda robot. Experimental results show that the robot successfully learns to complete the insertion, which was not possible before with using basic ProMPs.","PeriodicalId":180816,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE-RAS 21st International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131134596","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":"Passivity-based multi-contact balancing of humanoid robots based on power-conserved transformations","authors":"R. Ozawa, Takumi Kamioka","doi":"10.1109/Humanoids53995.2022.10000174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/Humanoids53995.2022.10000174","url":null,"abstract":"We present a method to control multi-contact balance for humanoid robots. Our method is based on physical transformations, which conserve the power generated by fully actuated control inputs. We calculate several controlled wrenches to determine contact sets obtained from the quasi-static balance of a humanoid model and superimpose the wrenches after transforming them around the corresponding contact sets. The superimposed input dynamically stabilizes the whole-body motions. We experimentally validated the effectiveness of this control method with the humanoid robot E2-DR.","PeriodicalId":180816,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE-RAS 21st International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids)","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132775595","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":"End-To-End Deep Reinforcement Learning for First-Person Pedestrian Visual Navigation in Urban Environments","authors":"Honghu Xue, Rui Song, Julian Petzold, Benedikt Hein, Heiko Hamann, Elmar Rueckert","doi":"10.1109/Humanoids53995.2022.10000201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/Humanoids53995.2022.10000201","url":null,"abstract":"We solve a pedestrian visual navigation problem with a first-person view in an urban setting via deep reinforcement learning in an end-to-end manner. The major challenges lie in severe partial observability and sparse positive experiences of reaching the goal. To address partial observability, we propose a novel 3D-temporal convolutional network to encode sequential historical visual observations, its effectiveness is verified by comparing to a commonly-used Frame-Stacking approach. For sparse positive samples, we propose an improved automatic curriculum learning algorithm NavACL+, which proposes meaningful curricula starting from easy tasks and gradually generalizing to challenging ones. NavACL+ is shown to facilitate the learning process with 21% earlier convergence, to improve the task success rate on difficult tasks by 40% compared to the original NavACL algorithm [1] and to offer enhanced generalization to different initial poses compared to training from a fixed initial pose.","PeriodicalId":180816,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE-RAS 21st International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids)","volume":"112 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132247650","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}
Sung-Ho Kim, Taiki Ishigaki, Yuta Shimane, Y. Ikegami, Ko Yamamoto
{"title":"Inverse Kinematics of Hybrid Multi-link System and its Application to Motion Capture for Athlete Wearing Sports Prosthesis","authors":"Sung-Ho Kim, Taiki Ishigaki, Yuta Shimane, Y. Ikegami, Ko Yamamoto","doi":"10.1109/Humanoids53995.2022.10000195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/Humanoids53995.2022.10000195","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the kinematics of soft-rigid hybrid multi-link system and its application to motion analysis by the motion capture measurement. Analysis of a gait or sprint motion including a sports prosthetic leg is challenging because we need to consider the interaction between the human body and the flexible deformation of the prosthesis. To precisely calculate the flexible deformation with a low computational cost, we employ the piece-wise constant strain (PCS) model, and integrate it with a rigid-body link system that represents a human skeleton motion. This hybrid link system can appropriately represent the motion of an athlete wearing a prosthesis. In this paper, we focus on the inverse kinematics (IK) that is one of the fundamental calculations to analyze a human motion from the motion capture measurement. We report an experiment of a subject wearing a sports prosthesis and validate that the proposed hybrid link IK can reconstruct the measured motion.","PeriodicalId":180816,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE-RAS 21st International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids)","volume":"140 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133264416","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}
Junhyung Kim, Beomyeong Park, Jae-Wook Shin, Jaeheung Park
{"title":"Analysis of Effects of Leg Inertia Distribution on Contact Stability and Dynamic Performance During Bipedal Walking","authors":"Junhyung Kim, Beomyeong Park, Jae-Wook Shin, Jaeheung Park","doi":"10.1109/Humanoids53995.2022.10000082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/Humanoids53995.2022.10000082","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyzes the effects of leg inertia distribution on contact stability and dynamic performance during bipedal walking. Recently, to ensure that the leg inertia distribution is mainly concentrated on the hip, biped robots have been developed with legs designed based on the design principle of placing the leg actuators near the pelvis. It is often mentioned that the dynamic performance of biped robots is improved by concentrating leg inertia distribution on the hip. However, it is not clear which aspect of the dynamic performance is improved and how it affects contact stability during walking. In this study, to analyze the improved dynamic performance and effects on the contact stability by concentrating the leg inertia distribution on the hip, the contact condition margins and maximum walking velocity for each model with various leg inertia distributions are calculated using the estimated contact wrench in walking simulations. The Linear Inverted Pendulum Model and the centroidal dynamics with full-body kinematics model, which have different degrees of model accuracy, are used as walking pattern generation models for walking simulations. As a result, it is confirmed that the contact stability and dynamic performance are improved as the leg inertia distribution is concentrated on the hip from the simulation results.","PeriodicalId":180816,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE-RAS 21st International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131363058","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 Dexterous, Adaptive, Affordable, Humanlike Robot Hand: Towards Prostheses with Dexterous Manipulation Capabilities","authors":"Jayden Chapman, Anany Dwivedi, Minas Liarokapis","doi":"10.1109/Humanoids53995.2022.10000237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/Humanoids53995.2022.10000237","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, we present a 16 degree of freedom (DoF) humanlike, adaptive robotic hand specifically designed to achieve increased dexterity and the execution of dexterous manipulation tasks with minimal cost. Three Dynamixel XM430-W350-R actuate the hand via a combination of direct driven and tendon driven systems. The unique, coupled, two degree-of-freedom thumb mechanism is capable of achieving a complex trajectory for the thumb, providing increased thumb dexterity over traditional underactuated designs. This can facilitate the execution of improved in-hand manipulation tasks while minimising the control effort required for operation. The effectiveness of the proposed device was validated through kinematic, grasping, and manipulation experiments, including the Kapandji test, as well as force exertion experiments. It was found that the hand achieved a Kapandji score of 9 out of 11, and peak contact forces of 19.43 N for pinch grasps and 35.24 N for power grasps. The device was manufactured using the Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) process with nylon and molding using silicone rubber. The device has a weight of 603 g and costs approximately $1,000 USD to manufacture.","PeriodicalId":180816,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE-RAS 21st International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114696300","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. Miyama, Shun Hasegawa, Kento Kawaharazuka, N. Yamaguchi, K. Okada, M. Inaba
{"title":"Design of a Five-Fingered Hand with Full-Fingered Tactile Sensors Using Conductive Filaments and Its Application to Bending after Insertion Motion","authors":"K. Miyama, Shun Hasegawa, Kento Kawaharazuka, N. Yamaguchi, K. Okada, M. Inaba","doi":"10.1109/Humanoids53995.2022.10000181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/Humanoids53995.2022.10000181","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study is to construct a contact point estimation system for the both side of a finger, and to realize a motion of bending the finger after inserting the finger into a tool (hereinafter referred to as the bending after insertion motion). In order to know the contact points of the full finger including the joints, we propose to fabricate a nerve inclusion flexible epidermis by combining a flexible epidermis and a nerve line made of conductive filaments, and estimate the contact position from the change of resistance of the nerve line. A nerve inclusion flexible epidermis attached to a thin fingered robotic hand was combined with a twin-armed robot and tool use experiments were conducted. The contact information can be used for tool use, confirming the effectiveness of the proposed method.","PeriodicalId":180816,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE-RAS 21st International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids)","volume":"09 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115025349","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}
Yoshimoto Ribayashi, Kento Kawaharazuka, Yasunori Toshimitsu, Daiki Kusuyama, Akihiro Miki, Koki Shinjo, Masahiro Bando, Temma Suzuki, Yuta Kojio, K. Okada, M. Inaba
{"title":"Design of Robot Foot with Outer Edge Measurement Structure and Chair Rotation Motion by Friction Control","authors":"Yoshimoto Ribayashi, Kento Kawaharazuka, Yasunori Toshimitsu, Daiki Kusuyama, Akihiro Miki, Koki Shinjo, Masahiro Bando, Temma Suzuki, Yuta Kojio, K. Okada, M. Inaba","doi":"10.1109/Humanoids53995.2022.10000127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/Humanoids53995.2022.10000127","url":null,"abstract":"Currently, humanoids have fewer variations of leg movements than humans. For humanoids to realize large leg movements like humans, the foot is important because it is the part of the body that makes contact with the ground. In this study, we focused on the outer edge of the foot, which has not been paid attention to so much, and developed a robot foot with an outer edge measurement structure equipped with one-axis force sensors on the bottom and sides. By using this structure and the attitude of the foot to control the measured frictional force, we have made it possible to perform a large rotational motion in a chair seated state, which requires the use of the outer edge of the foot.","PeriodicalId":180816,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE-RAS 21st International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids)","volume":"19 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132124061","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}