{"title":"Learning to Grasp by Extending the Peri-Personal Space Graph","authors":"J. Juett, B. Kuipers","doi":"10.1109/IROS.2018.8593938","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2018.8593938","url":null,"abstract":"We present a robot model of early reach and grasp learning, inspired by infant learning without prior knowledge of the geometry, kinematics, or dynamics of the arm. Human infants at reach onset are capable of using a sequence of jerky submotions to bring the hand to the position of a nearby object. A robotic learning agent can produce qualitatively similar behavior by using a graph representation to encode a set of safe, potentially useful arm states and feasible moves between them. These observations show that the Peri-Personal Space (PPS) Graph model is sufficient for early reaching and suggest that infants may use analogous models during this phase. In this paper, we show that the PPS Graph, with a simulated Palmar reflex (a reflex in infants that closes the fingers when the palm is touched), allows accidental grasps to occur during continued reaching practice. Given these occasional events, the agent can bootstrap to a simple deliberate grasp action. In particular, the agent must learn three new necessary conditions for a grasp: the hand should be open as the grasp begins, the final motion of the hand should be led by the gripper opening so that it reaches the target first, and the wrist must be oriented such that the gripper fingers may close around the target object, often requiring the opening to be perpendicular to the object's major axis. Combined with the existing capability to reach and interact with target objects, knowledge of these conditions allows the agent to learn increasingly reliable purposeful grasps. The first two conditions are addressed in this paper, and allow 45% of grasps to succeed. This work contributes toward the larger goal of foundational robot learning after the model of infant learning, with minimal prior knowledge of its own anatomy or its environment. The ability to grasp will allow the agent to control the motion and position of objects, providing a richer representation for its environment and new experiences to learn from.","PeriodicalId":6640,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)","volume":"12 1","pages":"8695-8700"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80162819","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":"3D Deep Object Recognition and Semantic Understanding for Visually-Guided Robotic Service","authors":"Sukhan Lee, A. Naguib, N. Islam","doi":"10.1109/IROS.2018.8593985","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2018.8593985","url":null,"abstract":"For the success of visually-guided robotic errand service, it is critical to ensure dependability under various ill-conditioned visual environments. To this end, we have developed Adaptive Bayesian Recognition Framework in which in-situ selection of multiple sets of optimal features or evidences as well as proactive collection of sufficient evidences are proposed to implement the principle of dependability. The framework has shown excellent performance with a limited number of objects in a scene. However, there arises a need to extend the framework for handling a larger number of objects without performance degradation, while avoiding difficulty in feature engineering. To this end, a novel deep learning architecture, referred to here as FER-CNN, is introduced and integrated into the Adaptive Bayesian Recognition Framework. FER-CNN has capability of not only extracting but also reconstructing a hierarchy of features with the layer-wise independent feedback connections that can be trained. Reconstructed features representing parts of 3D objects then allow them to be semantically linked to ontology for exploring object categories and properties. Experiments are conducted in a home environment with real 3D daily-life objects as well as with the standard ModelNet dataset. In particular, it is shown that FER-CNN allows the number of objects and their categories to be extended by 10 and 5 times, respectively, while registering the recognition rate for ModelNet10 and ModelNet40 by 97% and 89.5%, respectively.","PeriodicalId":6640,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)","volume":"2 1","pages":"903-910"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79439146","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}
L. Ku, J. Rogers, Philip Strawser, Julia M. Badger, E. Learned-Miller, R. Grupen
{"title":"A Framework for Dexterous Manipulation","authors":"L. Ku, J. Rogers, Philip Strawser, Julia M. Badger, E. Learned-Miller, R. Grupen","doi":"10.1109/IROS.2018.8594497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2018.8594497","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, we introduce a framework for performing dexterous manipulations on the humanoid robot Robonaut-2. This framework memorizes how actions change perceptions and can learn a sequence of actions based on demonstrations. With the anthropomorphic Robonaut-2 hand and arm, a variety of manipulation tasks such as grasping novel objects, rotating a drill for grasping, and tightening a bolt with a ratchet can be accomplished. This framework was also used to compete in the IROS2018 Fan Robotic Challenge that requires manipulating a hand fan and was a winner of the phase I modality A competition.","PeriodicalId":6640,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)","volume":"4 1","pages":"4131-4138"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81414392","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}
Carlos Sampedro, Hriday Bavle, Alejandro Rodriguez-Ramos, P. D. L. Puente, P. Campoy
{"title":"Laser-Based Reactive Navigation for Multirotor Aerial Robots using Deep Reinforcement Learning","authors":"Carlos Sampedro, Hriday Bavle, Alejandro Rodriguez-Ramos, P. D. L. Puente, P. Campoy","doi":"10.1109/IROS.2018.8593706","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2018.8593706","url":null,"abstract":"Navigation in unknown indoor environments with fast collision avoidance capabilities is an ongoing research topic. Traditional motion planning algorithms rely on precise maps of the environment, where re-adapting a generated path can be highly demanding in terms of computational cost. In this paper, we present a fast reactive navigation algorithm using Deep Reinforcement Learning applied to multi rotor aerial robots. Taking as input the 2D-laser range measurements and the relative position of the aerial robot with respect to the desired goal, the proposed algorithm is successfully trained in a Gazebo-based simulation scenario by adopting an artificial potential field formulation. A thorough evaluation of the trained agent has been carried out both in simulated and real indoor scenarios, showing the appropriate reactive navigation behavior of the agent in the presence of static and dynamic obstacles.","PeriodicalId":6640,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)","volume":"20 1","pages":"1024-1031"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81425902","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":"Smooth Point-to-Point Trajectory Planning in $SE$ (3)with Self-Collision and Joint Constraints Avoidance","authors":"R. Grassmann, Lars Johannsmeier, S. Haddadin","doi":"10.1109/IROS.2018.8594339","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2018.8594339","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we introduce a novel point-to-point trajectory planner for serial robotic structures that combines the ability to avoid self-collisions and to respect motion constraints, while complying with the requirement of being $C^{4}$ continuous. The latter property makes our approach also suited for 4th order dynamics flexible joint robots, which gained significant practical relevance recently. In particular, we address the problem of generating a smooth, kinematically nearly time-optimal $SE$ (3)trajectory while simultaneously avoiding potential collisions of the robot end-effector with its base as well as respecting the Cartesian unreachable states induced by the joint limits of the proximal kinematic structure.","PeriodicalId":6640,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)","volume":"20 1","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81573571","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":"Contingent Contact-Based Motion Planning","authors":"Elod Páll, Arne Sieverling, O. Brock","doi":"10.1109/IROS.2018.8594365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2018.8594365","url":null,"abstract":"A robot with contact sensing capability can reduce uncertainty relative to the environment by deliberately moving into contact and matching the resulting contact measurement to different possible states in the world. We present a manipulation planner that finds and sequences these actions by reasoning explicitly about the uncertainty over the robot's state. The planner incrementally constructs a policy that covers all possible contact states during a manipulation and finds contingencies for each of them. In contrast to conformant planners (without contingencies), the planned contingent policies are more robust. We demonstrate this in simulated and real-world manipulation experiments. In contrast to POMDP-based planners, we show that our planner can be directly applied to high-dimensional configuration spaces.","PeriodicalId":6640,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)","volume":"99 1","pages":"6615-6621"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81592026","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}
Massimo Vespignani, Jeffrey M. Friesen, Vytas SunSpiral, J. Bruce
{"title":"Design of SUPERball v2, a Compliant Tensegrity Robot for Absorbing Large Impacts","authors":"Massimo Vespignani, Jeffrey M. Friesen, Vytas SunSpiral, J. Bruce","doi":"10.1109/IROS.2018.8594374","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2018.8594374","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present the system design and initial testing of SUPERball v2, a completely re-designed 2-meter spherical six-bar tensegrity robot designed to survive high-speed landings as well as locomote to desired locations. SUPERball v2 was designed to enable a host of new actuation and experimentation. The prototype features a fully actuated six-bar design (24 actuators), compliant nylon cables (up to 15% stretch), torque-control enabled motors, and a robust mechanical structure capable of surviving impact velocities upwards of 8 m/s.","PeriodicalId":6640,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)","volume":"7 1","pages":"2865-2871"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81836846","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}
Jianjie Lin, N. Somani, Biao Hu, Markus Rickert, A. Knoll
{"title":"An Efficient and Time-Optimal Trajectory Generation Approach for Waypoints Under Kinematic Constraints and Error Bounds","authors":"Jianjie Lin, N. Somani, Biao Hu, Markus Rickert, A. Knoll","doi":"10.1109/IROS.2018.8593577","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2018.8593577","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an approach to generate the time-optimal trajectory for a robot manipulator under certain kinematic constraints such as joint position, velocity, acceleration, and jerk limits. This problem of generating a trajectory that takes the minimum time to pass through specified waypoints is formulated as a nonlinear constraint optimization problem. Unlike prior approaches that model the motion of consecutive waypoints as a Cubic Spline, we model this motion with a seven-segment acceleration profile, as this trajectory results in a shorter overall motion time while staying within the bounds of the robot manipulator's constraints. The optimization bottleneck lies in the complexity that increases exponentially with the number of waypoints. To make the optimization scale well with the number of waypoints, we propose an approach that has linear complexity. This approach first divides all waypoints to consecutive batches, each with an overlap of two waypoints. The overlapping waypoints then act as a bridge to concatenate the optimization results of two consecutive batches. The whole trajectory is effectively optimized by successively optimizing every batch. We conduct experiments on practical scenarios and trajectories generated by motion planners to evaluate the effectiveness of our proposed approach over existing state-of-the-art approaches.","PeriodicalId":6640,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)","volume":"56 1","pages":"5869-5876"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85046069","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}
S. Oota, Y. Okamura-Oho, Ko Ayusawa, Y. Ikegami, A. Murai, E. Yoshida, Yoshihiko Nakamura
{"title":"Neurorobotic Approach to Study Huntington Disease Based on a Mouse Neuromusculoskeletal Model","authors":"S. Oota, Y. Okamura-Oho, Ko Ayusawa, Y. Ikegami, A. Murai, E. Yoshida, Yoshihiko Nakamura","doi":"10.1109/IROS.2018.8594491","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2018.8594491","url":null,"abstract":"Motor functions of the biological system has been forged through 4 billion years evolution. From a neurorobotics view, it is important not only to know how well it works, but also how it fails. To quantitatively describe early onset symptoms of a neurodegenerative disease, we analyzed phenotypes of genetically engineered Huntington disease (HD) model mice, which reveal progressive impaired motor functions. We devised a simple yet sensitive paradigm called the crystalized motion profile (CMP), by which we successfully detected subtle difference between normal and abnormal mice in terms of whole-body level motor coordination. Our long-term objective is to remodel human mind and body to regain impaired motor and cognitive functions with ageing. To do so, we are developing a soft neurorobotic suit that provides integrated cognitive and physical interventions to users. Our analysis on the HD model mice is important as the first step to bridge between molecular mechanisms (altered genetic code) and the macroscopic neuro-musculoskeletal model. With this, we can extrapolate from knowledge of non-human mammals to human to derive the remodeling.","PeriodicalId":6640,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)","volume":"5 1","pages":"6720-6727"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85238087","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}
Bin Zhao, Weihao Zhang, Zhaoyu Zhang, Xiangyang Zhu, Kai Xu
{"title":"Continuum Manipulator with Redundant Backbones and Constrained Bending Curvature for Continuously Variable Stiffness","authors":"Bin Zhao, Weihao Zhang, Zhaoyu Zhang, Xiangyang Zhu, Kai Xu","doi":"10.1109/IROS.2018.8593437","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2018.8593437","url":null,"abstract":"Snake-like manipulators can navigate and perform manipulation in confined spaces. Their recent implementations in surgical robots attracted a lot of attentions. These slender manipulators usually possess either a hyper-redundant articulated vertebrate structure or a continuum one. Primary design considerations usually converge to a balance between proper workspace and acceptable stiffness. Efforts have hence been constantly made to achieve higher or adjustable stiffness for a manipulator to widen its applications. This paper presents a simple continuum manipulator design with variable stiffness based on redundantly arranged elastic backbones and continuously constrained bending curvature. The design concepts, kinematics, a preliminary formulation for stiffness adjustment, system construction and experimental characterizations are elaborated. The results showed that the manipulator's stiffness can be increased up to 4.71 times of the value without the curvature constraining rod, indicating the efficacy of the proposed idea.","PeriodicalId":6640,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)","volume":"17 1","pages":"7492-7499"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85882976","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}