Nonlinearity compensation in a multi-DoF shoulder sensing exosuit for real-time teleoperation
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Accepted version
Author(s)
Varghese, Rejin John
Nguyen, Anh
Burdet, Etienne
Yang, Guang-Zhong
Lo, Benny PL
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
The compliant nature of soft wearable robots makes them ideal for complex multiple degrees of freedom (DoF) joints, but also introduce additional structural nonlinearities. Intuitive control of these wearable robots requires robust sensing to overcome the inherent nonlinearities. This paper presents a joint kinematics estimator for a bio-inspired multi- DoF shoulder exosuit capable of compensating the encountered nonlinearities. To overcome the nonlinearities and hysteresis inherent to the soft and compliant nature of the suit, we developed a deep learning-based method to map the sensor data to the joint space. The experimental results show that the new learning-based framework outperforms recent state-of-the-art methods by a large margin while achieving 12ms inference time using only a GPU-based edge-computing device. The effectiveness of our combined exosuit and learning framework is demonstrated through real-time teleoperation with a simulated NAO humanoid robot.
Date Issued
2020-06-15
Date Acceptance
2020-01-01
Citation
2020 3RD IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOFT ROBOTICS (ROBOSOFT), 2020, pp.668-675
Publisher
IEEE
Start Page
668
End Page
675
Journal / Book Title
2020 3RD IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOFT ROBOTICS (ROBOSOFT)
Copyright Statement
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Sponsor
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Identifier
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Grant Number
EP/N027132/1
Source
3rd IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft)
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Robotics
Engineering
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2020-05-15
Finish Date
2020-07-15
Coverage Spatial
New Haven, CT
Date Publish Online
2020-06-15