arXiv:2501.05610cs.ROcs.ET2025-01被引 1

用脑机接口控制助行机器人,实现更自然的连续速度调节。

Towards Probabilistic Inference of Human Motor Intentions by Assistive Mobile Robots Controlled via a Brain-Computer Interface

  • 将用户意图建模为贝叶斯观测者的概率分布,提升对模糊脑电信号的理解
  • 通过生成对抗网络学习世界状态分布,在模拟环境中验证性能提升
  • 适合关注脑机接口与智能助行系统融合的研究者

助行机器人是帮助残障人士恢复自主移动能力的变革性技术。尽管自动驾驶轮椅显著降低了用户操作负担,但仍需人工输入以保持控制权并适应环境变化。脑机接口(BCI)因其无需肢体动作而成为理想选择。现有BCI系统仅能识别加速或减速指令,且以离散步长执行,无法实现如人类自速运动般的平滑连续速度变化。本文聚焦于改进BCI系统中的感知-行动循环,重点解决感知环节:提出一个规范性问题——‘机器人应如何计算以最优地推断不完整或含噪的感官观测?’ 基于采集的实证脑电数据,采用生成对抗网络框架学习并评估作为世界状态的概率表示。构建了基于ROS的仿真系统,集成Gazebo中包含室内数字孪生与虚拟轮椅模型的环境。通过信号处理与统计分析,识别出时空频维度中最具判别性的特征,并用于构建机器人代理的世界模型,使其以贝叶斯观察者方式解析用户运动意图。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Assistive mobile robots are a transformative technology that helps persons with disabilities regain the ability to move freely. Although autonomous wheelchairs significantly reduce user effort, they still require human input to allow users to maintain control and adapt to changing environments. Brain Computer Interface (BCI) stands out as a highly user-friendly option that does not require physical movement. Current BCI systems can understand whether users want to accelerate or decelerate, but they implement these changes in discrete speed steps rather than allowing for smooth, continuous velocity adjustments. This limitation prevents the systems from mimicking the natural, fluid speed changes seen in human self-paced motion. The authors aim to address this limitation by redesigning the perception-action cycle in a BCI controlled robotic system: improving how the robotic agent interprets the user's motion intentions (world state) and implementing these actions in a way that better reflects natural physical properties of motion, such as inertia and damping. The scope of this paper focuses on the perception aspect. We asked and answered a normative question "what computation should the robotic agent carry out to optimally perceive incomplete or noisy sensory observations?" Empirical EEG data were collected, and probabilistic representation that served as world state distributions were learned and evaluated in a Generative Adversarial Network framework. The ROS framework was established that connected with a Gazebo environment containing a digital twin of an indoor space and a virtual model of a robotic wheelchair. Signal processing and statistical analyses were implemented to identity the most discriminative features in the spatial-spectral-temporal dimensions, which are then used to construct the world model for the robotic agent to interpret user motion intentions as a Bayesian observer.

脑机接口助行机器人贝叶斯推理运动意图

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