无需额外传感器,让机器人主动辅助操作者完成高效示范。
Enabling Scalable Kinesthetic Teaching via Observer-based Hand-guiding with Active Support
- 基于模型估测外力,结合关节扭矩与冗余运动学主动支持人体动作。
- 用户实验显示物理耗力显著降低,精细与敏捷任务表现均提升。
- 适合需要长时间示范的工业场景,尤其对体力要求高的应用。
通过机器人手导进行动力学教学为模仿学习和示教编程提供了自然接口。然而,长时间操作会导致操作者疲劳,降低示范质量并限制可扩展性。当前工业级手导方法通常不提供主动协助,而其他方案需昂贵的腕部力矩传感器或依赖未针对新任务训练的运动先验。本文提出RHOAS,一种无需额外硬件即可通过模型化力估计实现主动支持的手导方案。该方法将手导视为操作者主动控制的交互,而非与被动环境的交互。传统方法多采用通用被动性约束的柔顺控制架构,会无谓增加操作者负担,并在主动交互中无法保证预期稳定性。相反,本设计利用模型外力估计算法、内部关节力矩传感与冗余机器人运动学,在人机交互频率带宽内主动支撑操作者意图动作。针对基于观测器的力估计面临的实际挑战——包括未建模关节弹性动态影响、反馈路径测量噪声、接近运动学奇异点时估计精度下降以及静态重力补偿误差——进行了有效处理。在16名参与者使用KUKA LWR iiwa的用户研究中,结果显示物理努力显著减少,精确与敏捷任务的操控性均得到改善,且用户偏好明显更优。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Kinesthetic teaching through robot hand-guiding provides a natural interface for collecting demonstrations in imitation learning and programming-by-demonstration. However, extended sessions cause operator fatigue, reducing demonstration quality and limiting scalability. Current industrial hand-guiding approaches typically provide no active assistance, and alternatives require costly wrist-mounted force-torque sensors or rely on learned motion priors unavailable for new tasks. We propose RHOAS, a hand-guiding scheme that actively supports operator-intended motions using model-based force estimation without additional hardware. Our approach considers robot hand-guiding as an actively controlled interaction by the human operator, rather than an interaction with a passive environment. Standard methods used for hand-guiding typically rely on general passivity-based compliant control architectures that unnecessarily increase operator effort and limit the range of demonstrable motions without providing the intended stability guarantees in active interaction. Instead, our design utilizes model-based external torque estimation, internal joint torque sensing, and redundant robot kinematics to actively support human physical input within the human interaction frequency bandwidth. We address practical challenges of relying on observer-based force estimation, including suppression of unmodeled joint elastic dynamic effects and measurement noise in the feedback path, reduced estimate accuracy close to kinematic singularities, and static gravity compensation errors. In a user study with 16 participants on a KUKA LWR iiwa we demonstrate statistically significant reductions in physical effort, improved maneuverability for both precise and agile tasks, and clear user preference.
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