E. Oyama, Yuya Ioka, A. Agah, Hiroyuki Okada, Sotaro Shimada
{"title":"Effects of Multiple Avatar Images Presented Consecutively with Temporal Delays on Self-Body Recognition","authors":"E. Oyama, Yuya Ioka, A. Agah, Hiroyuki Okada, Sotaro Shimada","doi":"10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9981048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9981048","url":null,"abstract":"Self-body awareness refers to the recognition of one's body as one's own and consists of two senses: “sense of body ownership” and “sense of agency.” In telexistence/telepresence robot operation, time delays in the robot's motion degrade self-body awareness of the robot body. We investigated how self-body recognition can be affected in a telexistence robot operation in a VR space when the robot is presented with a real robot arm that simulates a real robot with a delay and a virtual robot arm, or several virtual robot arms, with a delay less than that of the real robot. These experimental conditions include a ‘Predictive Display,’ which is well known as a time delay countermeasure. The results suggest that virtual robot arms presented consecutively with less delay than a real robot arm do not induce a sense of body ownership to the real robot arm, but they enhance the sense of agency to the real robot arm, and that sense of agency is stronger when the task requires precision.","PeriodicalId":431373,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115105387","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}
Fanny Risbourg, Thomas Corbères, Pierre-Alexandre Léziart, T. Flayols, N. Mansard, S. Tonneau
{"title":"Real-time Footstep Planning and Control of the Solo Quadruped Robot in 3D Environments","authors":"Fanny Risbourg, Thomas Corbères, Pierre-Alexandre Léziart, T. Flayols, N. Mansard, S. Tonneau","doi":"10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9981539","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9981539","url":null,"abstract":"Quadruped robots have proved their robustness to cross complex terrain despite little environment knowledge. Yet advanced locomotion controllers are expected to take advantage of exteroceptive information. This paper presents a complete method to plan and control the locomotion of quadruped robots when 3D information about the surrounding obstacles is available, based on several stages of decision. We first propose a contact planner formulated as a mixed-integer program, optimized on-line at each new robot step. It selects a surface from a set of convex surfaces describing the environment for the next footsteps while ensuring kinematic constraints. We then propose to optimize the exact contact location and the feet trajectories at control frequency to avoid obstacles, thanks to an efficient formulation of quadratic programs optimizing Bezier curves. By relying on the locomotion controller of our quadruped robot Solo, we finally implement the complete method, provided as an open-source package. Its efficiency is asserted by statistical evaluation of the importance of each component in simulation. We have a 100% success rate for our framework, and we show that the deactivation of the contact planning, footstep adaptation and collision avoidance, respectively induced a drop to 70%, 62% and 83% success rate in the worst case, justifying the complete architecture.","PeriodicalId":431373,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116376317","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":"Soft Tactile Contour Following for Robot-Assisted Wiping and Bathing","authors":"Isabella Huang, Dylan Chow, R. Bajcsy","doi":"10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9982071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9982071","url":null,"abstract":"The automated cleaning of surfaces such as furniture, bathroom sinks, and even human bodies is challenging due to the three-dimensional nature of their geometries. Yet, enabling robots to effectively and safely perform these tasks would not only reduce user efforts spent on household cleaning chores, but would also alleviate the strenuous workload of caretakers as the elderly population continues to grow at an unprecedented rate. In this work, we unify the applications of wiping objects and bathing humans as a general contour-following problem. To this end, we utilize a depth camera-based soft tactile sensor to extract the contact geometries and force-correlated measures during interaction between the robot and the target object or body part, and design a general contour-following controller that not only maintains contact with the target throughout the cleaning process, but also regulates the amount of force applied. Our system enables successful cleaning of pipes, shelving, and even human limbs and torsos without the need for data-driven methods such as deep learning, upon which the majority of existing works have relied.","PeriodicalId":431373,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)","volume":"46 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116439384","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}
Xiao Chen, Lars Johannsmeier, Hamid Sadeghian, Erfan Shahriari, Martin Danneberg, Anselm Nicklas, Fan Wu, G. Fettweis, S. Haddadin
{"title":"On the Communication Channel in Bilateral Teleoperation: An Experimental Study for Ethernet, WiFi, LTE and 5G","authors":"Xiao Chen, Lars Johannsmeier, Hamid Sadeghian, Erfan Shahriari, Martin Danneberg, Anselm Nicklas, Fan Wu, G. Fettweis, S. Haddadin","doi":"10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9981833","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9981833","url":null,"abstract":"Teleoperated robots are believed to play an important role for future applications in industry, medicine and other domains. Examples for this are remote assembly and maintenance, surgery, diagnosis or deep-sea and space exploration. Such applications are made possible by state-of-the-art tactile manipulators, well-researched control schemes and novel communication technologies such as the fifth generation of mobile communication (5G). The achievable performance is highly dependent on the communication delay and thus on the distance between leader and follower station, as well as the potentially used wireless protocol. Specially in this regard, 5G is a promising technology compared to the other communication protocols for transferring tactile information. In this paper, we introduce our telepresence reference platform, which can be used for empirical evaluation of different algorithms and communications. Comparative analysis are conducted to capture the influence of wireless communication protocols on telepresence systems consisting of complex robotic arms. The experiment compares the influence of 5G, LTE and WiFi communication protocols with regard to the motion and force tracking performance of the system.","PeriodicalId":431373,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)","volume":"205 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123436663","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}
Pasquale Grippa, A. Renzaglia, Antoine Rochebois, M. Schranz, Olivier Simonin
{"title":"Inspection of Ship Hulls with Multiple UAVs: Exploiting Prior Information for Online Path Planning","authors":"Pasquale Grippa, A. Renzaglia, Antoine Rochebois, M. Schranz, Olivier Simonin","doi":"10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9981357","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9981357","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses a path planning problem for a fleet of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) that uses both prior information and online gathered data to efficiently inspect large surfaces such as ship hulls and water tanks. UAVs can detect corrosion patches and other defects on the surface from low-resolution images. If defects are detected, they get closer to the surface for a high-resolution inspection. The prior information provides expected defects locations and is affected by both false positives and false negatives. The mission objective is to prioritize the close-up inspection of defected areas while keeping a reasonable time for the coverage of the entire surface. We propose two solutions to this problem: a coverage algorithm that divides the problem into a set of Traveling Salesman Problems (Part-TSP) and a cooperative frontier approach that introduces frontier utilities to incorporate the prior information (Coop-Frontier). We finally provide extensive simulation results to analyze the performance of these approaches and compare them with alternative solutions. These results suggest that both Part-Tspand Coop-Frontier perform better than the baseline solution. Part-Tsphas the best performance in most cases. However, coop-Frontier is preferable in extreme cases because more robust to inhomogeneous corrosion distribution and imperfect information.","PeriodicalId":431373,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123678991","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}
Alireza Mousavi, H. Khaksar, Awais Ahmed, Hongsoo Choi, A. K. Hoshiar
{"title":"Magnetic microrobot control using an adaptive fuzzy sliding-mode method","authors":"Alireza Mousavi, H. Khaksar, Awais Ahmed, Hongsoo Choi, A. K. Hoshiar","doi":"10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9981438","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9981438","url":null,"abstract":"The magnetic medical microrobots are influenced by diverse factors such as the medium, the geometry of the microrobot, and the imaging procedure. It is worth noting that the size limitations make it difficult or even impossible to obtain reliable physical properties of the system. In this research, to achieve a precise microrobot control using minimum knowledge about the system, an Adaptive Fuzzy Sliding-Mode Control (AFSMC) scheme is designed for the motion control problem of the magnetically actuated microrobots in presence of input saturation constraint. The AFSMC input consists of a fuzzy system designed to approximate an unknown nonlinear dynamical system and a robust term considered for mismatch compensation. According to the designed adaptation laws, the asymptotic stability is proved based on the Lyapunov theorem and Barbalat's lemma. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed method, a comparative simulation study is conducted.","PeriodicalId":431373,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121906473","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":"Shape Estimation of Concentric Tube Robots Using Single Point Position Measurement","authors":"Emile Mackute, Balint Thamo, Kimran Dhaliwal, Mohsen Khadem","doi":"10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9982174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9982174","url":null,"abstract":"Accurate shape estimation of concentric tube robots (CTRs) using mathematical models remains a challenge, reinforcing the need to develop techniques for accurate and real-time shape sensing of CTRs. In this paper, we develop a fusion algorithm that predicts the robot's shape by combining a mathematical model of the CTR with a measurement of the Cartesian coordinates of the robot's tip using an electro-magnetic sensor. We experimentally validated our method in static and dynamic scenarios with and without external loading. Results demonstrated that the fusion algorithm improves the error of model-based shape prediction by an average of 44.3%, corresponding to 2.43% of the robot's arc length. Furthermore, we demonstrate that our method can be used in real-time to simultaneously track the robot's tip position and predict its shape.","PeriodicalId":431373,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117099199","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":"Construction of a Simulator to Reproduce Changes in Running due to Motion Strategies Using Spring-Loaded Inverted Pendulum Model","authors":"M. Kitagawa, Takayuki Tanaka, Akihiko Murai","doi":"10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9981926","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9981926","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to construct a running simulator based on a motion generation and control system that enables the description of motion strategies using the spring-loaded inverted pendulum (SLIP) model. The problems of stability and robustness encountered in the running simulation with the SLIP model are elucidated, and stable running is achieved by controlling the stiffness and the attitude angle dynamically at touchdown, as well as human energy adjustment that is introduced to consider the active motion strategy. As a result, passive and active control by humans can be expressed, and a framework that can express the changes in running due to motion strategies is constructed. Finally, we discuss the possibility of describing and elucidating the motion strategies.","PeriodicalId":431373,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117235578","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":"Learn from Interaction: Learning to Pick via Reinforcement Learning in Challenging Clutter","authors":"Chao Zhao, Jungwon Seo","doi":"10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9981530","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9981530","url":null,"abstract":"Bin picking is a challenging problem in robotics due to high dimensional action space, partially visible objects, and contact-rich environments. State-of-the-art methods for bin picking are often simplified as planar manipulation, or learn policy based on human demonstration and motion primitives. The designs have escalated in complexity while still failing to reach the generality and robustness of human picking ability. Here, we present an end-to-end reinforcement learning (RL) framework to produce an adaptable and robust policy for picking objects in diverse real-world environments, including but not limited to tilted bins and corner objects. We present a novel solution to incorporate object interaction in policy learning. The object interaction is represented by the poses of objects. The policy learning is based on two neural networks with asymmetric state inputs. One acts on the object interaction information, while the other acts on the depth observation and proprioceptive signals of robots. The results of experiment shows remarkable zero-shot generalization from simulation to the real world and extensive real-world experiments show the effectiveness of the approach.","PeriodicalId":431373,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117242306","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. White, D. Jay, Tianze Wang, Christian M. Hubicki
{"title":"Avoiding Dynamic Obstacles with Real-time Motion Planning using Quadratic Programming for Varied Locomotion Modes","authors":"J. White, D. Jay, Tianze Wang, Christian M. Hubicki","doi":"10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9981268","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9981268","url":null,"abstract":"We present a real-time motion planner that avoids multiple moving obstacles without knowing their dynamics or intentions. This method uses convex optimization to generate trajectories for linear plant models over a planning horizon (i.e. model-predictive control). While convex optimizations allow for fast planning, obstacle avoidance can be challenging to incorporate because Euclidean distance calculations tend to break convexity. By using a half-space convex relaxation, our planner reasons about an approximated distance-to-obstacle measure that is linear in its decision variables and preserves convexity. Further, by iteratively updating the relaxation over the planning horizon, the half-space approximation is improved, enabling nimble avoidance maneuvers. We further augment avoidance performance with a soft penalty slack-variable for-mulation that introduces a piecewise quadratic cost. As a proof of concept, we demonstrate the planner on double-integrator models in both single-agent and multi-agent tasks-avoiding multiple obstacles and other agents in 2D and 3D environments. We show extensions to legged locomotion by bipedally walking around obstacles in simulation using the Linear Inverted Pendulum Model (LIPM). We then present two sets of hardware experiments showing real-time obstacle avoid-ance with quadcopter drones: (1) avoiding a 10m/s swinging pendulum and (2) dodging a chasing drone.","PeriodicalId":431373,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)","volume":"121 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123930073","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}