Sharing the Load: Human-Robot Team Lifting Using Muscle Activity
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delpreto_emg_team_lifting_ICRA19.pdf
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Author(s)
DelPreto, Joseph
Rus, Daniela
Date Issued
May 2019
Journal
Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
Publisher
IEEE
Citation
DelPreto, Joseph and Rus, Daniela. 2019. "Sharing the Load: Human-Robot Team Lifting Using Muscle Activity." Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2019-May.
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Author's final manuscript
Abstract
Seamless communication of desired motions and goals is essential for enabling effective physical human-robot collaboration. In such cases, muscle activity measured via surface electromyography (EMG) can provide insight into a person's intentions while minimally distracting from the task. The presented system uses two muscle signals to create a control framework for team lifting tasks in which a human and robot lift an object together. A continuous setpoint algorithm uses biceps activity to estimate changes in the user's hand height, and also allows the user to explicitly adjust the robot by stiffening or relaxing their arm. In addition to this pipeline, a neural network trained only on previous users classifies biceps and triceps activity to detect up or down gestures on a rolling basis; this enables finer control over the robot and expands the feasible workspace. The resulting system is evaluated by 10 untrained subjects performing a variety of team lifting and assembly tasks with rigid and flexible objects.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
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DOI of Published Version
https://doi.org/10.1109/icra.2019.8794414
