Title
A human inspired handover policy using Gaussian Mixture Models and haptic cues
Abstract
A handover strategy is proposed that aims at natural and fluent robot to human object handovers. For the approaching phase, a globally asymptotically stable dynamical system (DS) is utilized, trained from human demonstrations and exploiting the existence of mirroring in the human wrist motion. The DS operates in the robot task space thus achieving independence with respect to the robot platform, encapsulating the position and orientation of the human wrist within a single DS. It is proven that the motion generated by such a DS, having as target the current wrist pose of the receiver’s hand, is bounded and converges to the previously unknown handover location. Haptic cues based on load estimates at the robot giver ensure full object load transfer before grip release. The proposed strategy is validated with simulations and experiments in real settings.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1007/s10514-018-9705-x
Autonomous Robots
Keywords
Field
DocType
Programming by Demonstration, Gaussian Mixture Model, Physical human-robot interaction, Haptic communication
Programming by demonstration,Computer vision,Haptic communication,Simulation,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Robot,Dynamical system,Mixture model,Handover,Haptic technology,Bounded function
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
43.0
6
1573-7527
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.38
15
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Antonis Sidiropoulos130.38
Psomopoulou, E.231.06
Zoe Doulgeri333247.11