Data-driven Force Observer for Human-Robot Interaction with Series Elastic Actuators using Gaussian Processes

Fuente: arXiv
Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
Hauptverfasser: Tesfazgi, Samuel, Keßler, Markus, Trigili, Emilio, Lederer, Armin, Hirche, Sandra
Format: Preprint
Veröffentlicht: 2024
Schlagworte:
Online-Zugang:
Tags: Tag hinzufügen
Keine Tags, Fügen Sie den ersten Tag hinzu!
_version_ 1866916246129213440
author Tesfazgi, Samuel
Keßler, Markus
Trigili, Emilio
Lederer, Armin
Hirche, Sandra
author_facet Tesfazgi, Samuel
Keßler, Markus
Trigili, Emilio
Lederer, Armin
Hirche, Sandra
contents Ensuring safety and adapting to the user's behavior are of paramount importance in physical human-robot interaction. Thus, incorporating elastic actuators in the robot's mechanical design has become popular, since it offers intrinsic compliance and additionally provide a coarse estimate for the interaction force by measuring the deformation of the elastic components. While observer-based methods have been shown to improve these estimates, they rely on accurate models of the system, which are challenging to obtain in complex operating environments. In this work, we overcome this issue by learning the unknown dynamics components using Gaussian process (GP) regression. By employing the learned model in a Bayesian filtering framework, we improve the estimation accuracy and additionally obtain an observer that explicitly considers local model uncertainty in the confidence measure of the state estimate. Furthermore, we derive guaranteed estimation error bounds, thus, facilitating the use in safety-critical applications. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach experimentally in a human-exoskeleton interaction scenario.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2405_08711
institution arXiv
publishDate 2024
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Data-driven Force Observer for Human-Robot Interaction with Series Elastic Actuators using Gaussian Processes
Tesfazgi, Samuel
Keßler, Markus
Trigili, Emilio
Lederer, Armin
Hirche, Sandra
Robotics
Machine Learning
Systems and Control
Ensuring safety and adapting to the user's behavior are of paramount importance in physical human-robot interaction. Thus, incorporating elastic actuators in the robot's mechanical design has become popular, since it offers intrinsic compliance and additionally provide a coarse estimate for the interaction force by measuring the deformation of the elastic components. While observer-based methods have been shown to improve these estimates, they rely on accurate models of the system, which are challenging to obtain in complex operating environments. In this work, we overcome this issue by learning the unknown dynamics components using Gaussian process (GP) regression. By employing the learned model in a Bayesian filtering framework, we improve the estimation accuracy and additionally obtain an observer that explicitly considers local model uncertainty in the confidence measure of the state estimate. Furthermore, we derive guaranteed estimation error bounds, thus, facilitating the use in safety-critical applications. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach experimentally in a human-exoskeleton interaction scenario.
title Data-driven Force Observer for Human-Robot Interaction with Series Elastic Actuators using Gaussian Processes
topic Robotics
Machine Learning
Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.08711