Title
Imitating human acceleration of a gyroscopic device
Abstract
Spinning up a Power®ball—a hand-held gyroscopic toy or exerciser that exhibits rotor spin-up when applying appropriate torque to its casing—is a fairly easy task for a human but rather complex to perform with a robot. To accomplish the task of spinning up the rotor of the Power®ball with a robot, we measured the motion of a human and identified the conditions an individual uses for a successful spin-up. Several control approaches were applied to the device mainly using feedback information from the velocity counter and force/torque sensor to synchronize the torque exerted by the device and the motion of the robot. Best human imitation was achieved with two modified learning methods with highest rotor speeds in excess of 1480 rad/s, rating among top 100 world Power®ball players.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1017/S0263574707003396
Robotica
Keywords
DocType
Volume
best human imitation,human acceleration,successful spin-up,easy task,ball player,control approach,appropriate torque,world Power,gyroscopic device,torque sensor,highest rotor speed,rotor spin-up
Journal
25
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
0263-5747
7
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.68
6
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Andrej Gams138529.54
Leon Žlajpah2613.86
Jadran Lenarcic313622.94