Delay-Compensated Stiffness Estimation for Robot-Mediated Dyadic Interaction
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| author | Du, Mingtian Kulkarni, Suhas Raghavendra Noronha, Bernardo Campolo, Domenico |
| author_facet | Du, Mingtian Kulkarni, Suhas Raghavendra Noronha, Bernardo Campolo, Domenico |
| contents | Robot-mediated human-human (dyadic) interactions enable therapists to provide physical therapy remotely, yet an accurate perception of patient stiffness remains challenging due to network-induced haptic delays. Conventional stiffness estimation methods, which neglect delay, suffer from temporal misalignment between force and position signals, leading to significant estimation errors as delays increase. To address this, we propose a robust, delay-compensated stiffness estimation framework by deriving an algebraic estimator based on quasi-static equilibrium that explicitly accounts for temporally aligning the expert's input with the novice's response. A Normalised Weighted Least Squares (NWLS) implementation is then introduced to robustly filter dynamic bias resulting from the algebraic derivation. Experiments using commercial rehabilitation robots (H-MAN) as the platform demonstrate that the proposed method significantly outperforms the standard estimator, maintaining consistent tracking accuracy under multiple introduced delays. These findings offer a promising solution for achieving high-fidelity haptic perception in remote dyadic interaction, potentially facilitating reliable stiffness assessment in therapeutic settings across networks. |
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| spellingShingle | Delay-Compensated Stiffness Estimation for Robot-Mediated Dyadic Interaction Du, Mingtian Kulkarni, Suhas Raghavendra Noronha, Bernardo Campolo, Domenico Robotics Human-Computer Interaction Systems and Control Robot-mediated human-human (dyadic) interactions enable therapists to provide physical therapy remotely, yet an accurate perception of patient stiffness remains challenging due to network-induced haptic delays. Conventional stiffness estimation methods, which neglect delay, suffer from temporal misalignment between force and position signals, leading to significant estimation errors as delays increase. To address this, we propose a robust, delay-compensated stiffness estimation framework by deriving an algebraic estimator based on quasi-static equilibrium that explicitly accounts for temporally aligning the expert's input with the novice's response. A Normalised Weighted Least Squares (NWLS) implementation is then introduced to robustly filter dynamic bias resulting from the algebraic derivation. Experiments using commercial rehabilitation robots (H-MAN) as the platform demonstrate that the proposed method significantly outperforms the standard estimator, maintaining consistent tracking accuracy under multiple introduced delays. These findings offer a promising solution for achieving high-fidelity haptic perception in remote dyadic interaction, potentially facilitating reliable stiffness assessment in therapeutic settings across networks. |
| title | Delay-Compensated Stiffness Estimation for Robot-Mediated Dyadic Interaction |
| topic | Robotics Human-Computer Interaction Systems and Control |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.17812 |