arXiv:2411.17060cs.ROeess.SP2024-11被引 5

让触觉识别更抗干扰,模拟人手感知机制提升机器人触感稳定性。

Invariant neuromorphic representations of tactile stimuli improve robustness of a real-time texture classification system

  • 模仿人体皮肤感受器,分三步生成抗速度和压力干扰的脉冲信号。
  • 在15种不同速度与压力下测试,分类准确率显著提升,计算效率更高。
  • 适合需要稳定触觉反馈的假肢或机器人系统,尤其应对人为操作不精准。

人类拥有精细的触觉,而机器人与假肢系统正努力复现这一能力。本文开发了算法,生成类神经元(神经形态)的脉冲式触觉表示,对扫描速度和接触压力具有不变性。这些脉冲表示模仿了人体皮肤中机械感受器的活动,并进一步模拟至大脑的处理过程。神经形态编码通过三个连续阶段实现:力不变模块(模拟域)、脉冲活动编码模块(从模拟到脉冲域转换)、速度不变模块(脉冲域)。算法在15种不同速度-力条件下采集的触觉纹理数据集上进行测试。基于不变表示构建的离线分类系统,分类准确率更高,计算效率更优,并能识别全新速度-力条件下的纹理。该速度不变算法被应用于实时人工操作的纹理分类系统,同样提升了分类准确率、计算效率及对新条件的适应能力。在该场景下,由于人为操作的不精确性,系统常将其视为新条件,因此不变表示尤为重要。结果表明,不变的神经形态表示可显著提升神经机器人触觉系统的性能。此外,由于其基于生物感知机制,未来可用于上肢截肢者自然化的感官反馈。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Humans have an exquisite sense of touch which robotic and prosthetic systems aim to recreate. We developed algorithms to create neuron-like (neuromorphic) spiking representations of texture that are invariant to the scanning speed and contact force applied in the sensing process. The spiking representations are based on mimicking activity from mechanoreceptors in human skin and further processing up to the brain. The neuromorphic encoding process transforms analog sensor readings into speed and force invariant spiking representations in three sequential stages: the force invariance module (in the analog domain), the spiking activity encoding module (transforms from analog to spiking domain), and the speed invariance module (in the spiking domain). The algorithms were tested on a tactile texture dataset collected in 15 speed-force conditions. An offline texture classification system built on the invariant representations has higher classification accuracy, improved computational efficiency, and increased capability to identify textures explored in novel speed-force conditions. The speed invariance algorithm was adapted to a real-time human-operated texture classification system. Similarly, the invariant representations improved classification accuracy, computational efficiency, and capability to identify textures explored in novel conditions. The invariant representation is even more crucial in this context due to human imprecision which seems to the classification system as a novel condition. These results demonstrate that invariant neuromorphic representations enable better performing neurorobotic tactile sensing systems. Furthermore, because the neuromorphic representations are based on biological processing, this work can be used in the future as the basis for naturalistic sensory feedback for upper limb amputees.

触觉感知神经形态假肢鲁棒性

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