改进手免控制,让球形机器人更稳定地响应骑乘者动作。
An Interactive Hands-Free Controller for a Riding Ballbot to Enable Simple Shared Control Tasks
- 引入自适应增益与交互补偿模块提升速度跟踪精度
- 实测显示最大速度从1.9米/秒降至1.1米/秒,控制更精准
- 适合轮椅使用者与需要安全协作的场景
我们团队开发了一种动态稳定的全向球形机器人PURE,采用倾斜转向控制。此前集成的手免阻抗控制方案(HACS)允许不同躯干功能的用户通过躯干倾斜和扭转操控机器人运动,但该接口需协调能力,且易因操作不熟练导致碰撞。为此,我们提出一种交互式手免阻抗控制(iHACS),在原有基础上增加控制增益个性化模块与交互补偿模块,以改善速度跟踪性能。通过简单任务测试——静止保持与速度限制——对比HACS与iHACS表现。四名参与者(两名手动轮椅使用者,两名健全人)被要求施加对抗性躯干动作,考验系统在保持静止或低于设定速度时的能力。在静止保持任务中,即使存在显著躯干倾斜,iHACS仍实现最小平移运动与低命令速度跟踪均方根误差;在速度限制任务中,命令速度设为0.5米/秒时,系统平均最高速度由HACS的超过1.9米/秒降至iHACS的1.1米/秒。结果表明,iHACS显著增强机器人对骑乘者的控制力,使其能反向施加物理交互,形成协同互动关系。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Our team developed a riding ballbot (called PURE) that is dynamically stable, omnidirectional, and driven by lean-to-steer control. A hands-free admittance control scheme (HACS) was previously integrated to allow riders with different torso functions to control the robot's movements via torso leaning and twisting. Such an interface requires motor coordination skills and could result in collisions with obstacles due to low proficiency. Hence, a shared controller (SC) that limits the speed of PURE could be helpful to ensure the safety of riders. However, the self-balancing dynamics of PURE could result in a weak control authority of its motion, in which the torso motion of the rider could easily result in poor tracking of the command speed dictated by the shared controller. Thus, we proposed an interactive hands-free admittance control scheme (iHACS), which added two modules to HACS to improve the speed-tracking performance of PURE: control gain personalization module and interaction compensation module. Human riding tests of simple tasks, idle-keeping and speed-limiting, were conducted to compare the performance of HACS and iHACS. Two manual wheelchair users and two able-bodied individuals participated in this study. They were instructed to use "adversarial" torso motions that would tax the SC's ability to keep the ballbot idling or below a set speed. In the idle-keeping tasks, iHACS demonstrated minimal translational motion and low command speed tracking RMSE, even with significant torso lean angles. During the speed-limiting task with command speed saturated at 0.5 m/s, the system achieved an average maximum speed of 1.1 m/s with iHACS, compared with that of over 1.9 m/s with HACS. These results suggest that iHACS can enhance PURE's control authority over the rider, which enables PURE to provide physical interactions back to the rider and results in a collaborative rider-robot synergy.
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