Title
Control of a Soft Actuator using a Long Short-Term Memory Neural Network
Abstract
Soft robots offer new opportunities because of their compliant physical structure and their wide range of applications. Currently the development of such robots is hampered by their low controllability. One of the main constituents of soft robots are soft actuators. The aim of this project is to improve the control of a non-linear system, the soft actuator, and its interaction with the environment, by training a long short-term memory (LSTM) neural network to accurately predict the actuator's position in space, its curvature, and the force applied by its end-effector on an external object. The increased performance of the trained network resulted in an error as low as <tex xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">$0.01\pm 0.005\ \mathrm{N}$</tex> in estimating the force applied by the end effector on the external object. The results show significantly superior performance (on the order of 10 times) in the positional and curvature predictions of the LSTM network when using one marker per air-chamber.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/MMAR55195.2022.9874322
2022 26th International Conference on Methods and Models in Automation and Robotics (MMAR)
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
LSTM,soft robotics,control,soft pneumatic actuator,neural networks
Conference
978-1-6654-6859-6
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
5
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Victor Yanev100.34
Maria Elena Giannaccini200.34
Sumeet S. Aphale300.34