Title
Adaptive-Constrained Impedance Control for Human–Robot Co-Transportation
Abstract
Human–robot co-transportation allows for a human and a robot to perform an object transportation task cooperatively on a shared environment. This range of applications raises a great number of theoretical and practical challenges arising mainly from the unknown human–robot interaction model as well as from the difficulty of accurately model the robot dynamics. In this article, an adaptive impedance controller for human–robot co-transportation is put forward in task space. Vision and force sensing are employed to obtain the human hand position, and to measure the interaction force between the human and the robot. Using the latest developments in nonlinear control theory, we propose a robot end-effector controller to track the motion of the human partner under actuators’ input constraints, unknown initial conditions, and unknown robot dynamics. The proposed adaptive impedance control algorithm offers a safe interaction between the human and the robot and achieves a smooth control behavior along the different phases of the co-transportation task. Simulations and experiments are conducted to illustrate the performance of the proposed techniques in a co-transportation task.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/TCYB.2021.3107357
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Humans,Robotics,Electric Impedance,Algorithms
Journal
52
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
12
2168-2267
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
53
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xinbo Yu1463.99
Bin Li2948.79
wei he32061102.03
Yang-He Feng4239.91
Long Cheng5149273.97
Carlos Silvestre639649.09