{"title":"System Design and Experimental Research of Cable-driven Hip Joint Power-assisted Exoskeleton","authors":"Peifeng Ma, Aibin Zhu, Yao Tu, Jiyuan Song, Diyang Dang, Yulin Zhang","doi":"10.1109/ur55393.2022.9826254","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ur55393.2022.9826254","url":null,"abstract":"There are many studies on the wearable exoskeleton to help patients with lower extremities walk now. However, the wearable exoskeleton has many problems, such as a complex system, heavy structure, and high rigidity. To solve these problems, a hip joint power-assisted exoskeleton system driven by cable is designed in this paper, and its auxiliary effect is evaluated. Based on the equipment in the laboratory, the walking experiments were carried out under three conditions: no exoskeleton, exoskeleton opening and closing, and the effects of different experimental conditions on human joint angle, carbon dioxide exhalation and sEMG were analyzed. The experiment shows that the maximum angle difference of hip and knee with and without exoskeleton is 3.2° and 6.1° respectively. The average carbon dioxide content in the exhaled gas decreased by 3.5%. The RMS values of the inferior gauze tail muscle and the quadriceps femoris muscle decreased by 51.40% and 42.55%, respectively. Comprehensive analysis shows that the relative motion deviation of human-robot is small, human muscle consumption is significantly reduced, and the exoskeleton plays a good auxiliary role in human walking.","PeriodicalId":398742,"journal":{"name":"2022 19th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR)","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128649801","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":"Considerations of Mounting Method for Wearable Robot Arm","authors":"Akimichi Kojima, D. Tran, Joo-Ho Lee","doi":"10.1109/ur55393.2022.9826261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ur55393.2022.9826261","url":null,"abstract":"When using a wearable robotic arm, the burden on the user needs to be considered. The weight of the robotic arm has the most impact, but the mounting method is also essential. The method of attachment using a belt and backpack was simulated using a stress analysis tool. For each mounting method, we compared the locations where stress occurs and the range of stress and examined mounting methods that reduce the burden on the user.","PeriodicalId":398742,"journal":{"name":"2022 19th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR)","volume":"126 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129755327","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":"SPI(Spherical Point Indicator) : Point Feature Image Generation for Point-wise Classification and Dynamic Object Removal","authors":"C. Bae, Yu-Cheol Lee, Wonpil Yu, Sejin Lee","doi":"10.1109/ur55393.2022.9826243","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ur55393.2022.9826243","url":null,"abstract":"3D point cloud map is generated by accumulating LiDAR sensor data scanned at various locations and times. During scanning, dynamic objects are scanned in different poses depending on location and time, which degrades the quality of the map and negatively affects the localization. In order to improve the quality of the 3D point cloud map and for long-term management, effective to create a 3D point cloud map using only static objects by removing objects including dynamic possibilities. In this paper, we propose a Spherical Point Indicator (SPI) that can classify each point and remove dynamic probability objects through a method of generating feature images from individual points of a three-dimensional point cloud in scan units collected from a LiDAR sensor. SPI generates a unique feature image of each point by using the distribution information and intensity information of neighboring points centered on each point. The generated images are used as inputs to the CNN network and classified. The SPI feature image generation is applicable to all 3D point clouds, and all the scanned points as a result of classification are individually classified according to categories. Our approach can classify all included 3D point clouds using only one scan, and only static objects can be detected by filtering the dynamic possibilities object categories from the classified results.","PeriodicalId":398742,"journal":{"name":"2022 19th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126808191","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}
Dong-Po Tan, Guangjing Cao, Yuepeng Zhang, Jiangcheng Chen, Ling-Long Li
{"title":"Safe Movement Planning with DMP and CBF for Lower Limb Rehabilitation Exoskeleton","authors":"Dong-Po Tan, Guangjing Cao, Yuepeng Zhang, Jiangcheng Chen, Ling-Long Li","doi":"10.1109/ur55393.2022.9826262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ur55393.2022.9826262","url":null,"abstract":"Lower limb rehabilitation exoskeleton robot plays an important role in the auxiliary movement of people with lower limb movement disorders. It’s reasonable movement planning is the guarantee of efficient assistance and safe movement of patients. The existing method for movement planning mostly adopts the fixed track, which can not meet the characteristics of each patient, and is lack of pertinence. To improve the flexibility and the safety of the exoskeleton movement, this paper proposes a movement planning method based on the combination of Dynamic movement primitives (DMP) and control barrier function(CBF). The positional relationship between the crutch support point and the patient's foot is considered. The DMP method is used to simulate the human walking trajectory, the coupling term is added to ensure that the trajectory meets the control requirements. The CBF method is used to dynamically optimize the movement trajectory to ensure that the distance between the patient's foot and the crutch support point and the movement trajectory of sit to stand are always within the safe area respectively. The simulation results show that this method can adjust the step size according to the position of the patient's supporting foot and crutch, and restrict the movement trajectory within the safety set.","PeriodicalId":398742,"journal":{"name":"2022 19th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129420369","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":"Stereoscopic low-latency vision system via ethernet network for Humanoid Teleoperation","authors":"Jae-Wook Shin, June-Sung Ahn, Jaeheung Park","doi":"10.1109/ur55393.2022.9826285","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ur55393.2022.9826285","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the recent rise of artificial intelligence, the automatic operation of the robot in an unstructured environment is still insufficient to perform complicated and detailed tasks and requires remote operation by a human. The most important thing to improve the efficiency of such Teleoperation is the vision system that enables the human operator to recognize the surrounding situation of the robot. While constructing the system, immersive experience for the operator was considered. Low latency and curved plane rendering are proposed to provide an immersive experience for operators. Moreover, considering the operator’s exhaustion during the teleoperation that comes from Virtual Reality sickness, the reduction of Virtual Reality sickness is also suggested. Finally, to check the entire system’s visual feedback latency, display-to-display latency is quantitatively measured. This paper presents an implementation of a vision system for the Teleoperation of humanoid robots through Virtual Reality.","PeriodicalId":398742,"journal":{"name":"2022 19th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR)","volume":"144 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115111922","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":"PaGO-LOAM: Robust Ground-Optimized LiDAR Odometry","authors":"Dong-Uk Seo, Hyungtae Lim, Seungjae Lee, H. Myung","doi":"10.48550/arXiv.2206.00266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2206.00266","url":null,"abstract":"Numerous researchers have conducted studies to achieve fast and robust ground-optimized LiDAR odometry methods for terrestrial mobile platforms. In particular, ground-optimized LiDAR odometry usually employs ground segmentation as a preprocessing method. This is because most of the points in a 3D point cloud captured by a 3D LiDAR sensor on a terrestrial platform are from the ground. However, the effect of the performance of ground segmentation on LiDAR odometry is still not closely examined. In this paper, a robust ground-optimized LiDAR odometry framework is proposed to facilitate the study to check the effect of ground segmentation on LiDAR SLAM based on the state-of-the-art (SOTA) method.By using our proposed odometry framework, it is easy and straightforward to test whether ground segmentation algorithms help extract well-described features and thus improve SLAM performance. In addition, by leveraging the SOTA ground segmentation method called Patchwork, which shows robust ground segmentation even in complex and uneven urban environments with little performance perturbation, a novel ground-optimized LiDAR odometry is proposed, called PaGO- LOAM. The methods were tested using the KITTI odometry dataset. PaGO-LOAM shows robust and accurate performance compared with the baseline method. Our code is available at https://github.com/url-kaist/AlterGround-LeGO-LOAM","PeriodicalId":398742,"journal":{"name":"2022 19th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126953151","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":"Robotic Irrigation Water Management: Estimating Soil Moisture Content by Feel and Appearance","authors":"Marsela Polic, Marko Car, Jelena Tabak, M. Orsag","doi":"10.1109/ur55393.2022.9826252","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ur55393.2022.9826252","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we propose a robotic system for Irrigation Water Management in a structured robotic greenhouse environment. A commercially available robotic manipulator is equipped with an RGB-D camera and a soil moisture sensor. The two will be used to automate the procedure known as \"feel and appearance method\", which is a way of monitoring soil moisture to determine when to irrigate and how much water to apply. RGB-D camera is used to estimate the soil surface position in order to plan the soil sampling approach. A compliant force control framework is used to enable the robot to insert the soil moisture sensor in the sensitive plant root zone of the soil, without harming the plant. The adaptive force control framework relying on RGB-D information enables the robot to sample the soil without knowing the exact soil stiffness a priori.","PeriodicalId":398742,"journal":{"name":"2022 19th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126108720","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":"Iterative Supervised Learning for Regression with Constraints","authors":"Tejaswi K. C., Taeyoung Lee","doi":"10.1109/ur55393.2022.9826263","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ur55393.2022.9826263","url":null,"abstract":"Regression in supervised learning often requires the enforcement of constraints to ensure that the trained models are consistent with the underlying structures of the input and output data. This paper presents an iterative procedure to perform regression under arbitrary constraints. It is achieved by alternating between a learning step and a constraint enforcement step, to which an affine extension function is incorporated. We show this leads to a contraction mapping under mild assumptions, from which the convergence is guaranteed analytically. The presented proof of convergence in regression with constraints is the unique contribution of this paper. Furthermore, numerical experiments illustrate improvements in the trained model in terms of the quality of regression, the satisfaction of constraints, and also the stability in training, when compared to other existing algorithms.","PeriodicalId":398742,"journal":{"name":"2022 19th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132534417","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}