Title
Hardness Recognition of Robotic Forearm Based on Semi-supervised Generative Adversarial Networks.
Abstract
The hardness recognition is of great significance to tactile sensing and robotic control. The hardness recognition methods based on deep learning have demonstrated a good performance, however, a huge amount of manually labeled samples which require lots of time and labor costs are necessary for the training of deep neural networks. In order to alleviate this problem, a semi-supervised generative adversarial network (GAN) which requires less manually labeled samples is proposed in this paper. First of all, a large number of unlabeled samples are made use of through the unsupervised training of GAN, which is used to provide a good initial state to the following model. Afterwards, the manually labeled samples corresponding to each hardness level are individually used to train the GAN, of which the architecture and initial parameter values are inherited from the unsupervised GAN, and augmented by the generator of trained GAN. Finally, the hardness recognition network (HRN), of which the main architecture and initial parameter values are inherited from the discriminator of unsupervised GAN, is pretrained by a large number of augmented labeled samples and fine-tuned by manually labeled samples. The hardness recognition result can be obtained online by importing the tactile data captured by the robotic forearm into the trained HRN. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method can significantly save the manual labeling work while providing an excellent recognition precision for hardness recognition.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.3389/fnbot.2019.00073
FRONTIERS IN NEUROROBOTICS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
tactile sensing,hardness recognition,deep learning,semi-supervised,generative adversarial networks
Journal
13
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1662-5218
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiaoliang Qian1112.93
Erkai Li200.34
Jianwei Zhang301.01
Su-Na Zhao400.34
Qing-E Wu500.34
Huanlong Zhang63613.12
Wei Wang720258.31
Yuanyuan Wu800.34