Title
An Intuitive Formulation of the Human Arm Active Endpoint Stiffness.
Abstract
In this work, we propose an intuitive and real-time model of the human arm active endpoint stiffness. In our model, the symmetric and positive-definite stiffness matrix is constructed through the eigen decomposition K-c = VDVT, where V is an orthonormal matrix whose columns are the normalized eigenvectors of K-c, and D is a diagonal matrix whose entries are the eigenvalues of K-c. In this formulation, we propose to construct V and D directly by exploiting the geometric information from a reduced human arm skeleton structure in 3D and from the assumption that human arm muscles work synergistically when co-contracted. Through the perturbation experiments across multiple subjects under different arm configurations and muscle activation states, we identified the model parameters and examined the modeling accuracy. In comparison to our previous models for predicting human active arm endpoint stiffness, the new model offers significant advantages such as fast identification and personalization due to its principled simplicity. The proposed model is suitable for applications such as teleoperation, human-robot interaction and collaboration, and human ergonomic assessments, where a personalizable and real-time human kinodynamic model is a crucial requirement.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.3390/s20185357
SENSORS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
human factors,physical human-robot collaboration,robot adaptation and learning
Journal
20
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
18
1424-8220
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yuqiang Wu100.34
Fei Zhao200.34
Wansoo Kim331.45
Arash Ajoudani426839.88