TY - GEN
T1 - A scalable joint-space controller for musculoskeletal robots with spherical joints
AU - Jäntsch, Michael
AU - Schmaler, Christian
AU - Wittmeier, Steffen
AU - Dalamagkidis, Konstantinos
AU - Knoll, Alois
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - In the long history of robotics research, the most prominent problem has always been, to develop robots that can safely operate in human-centered environments. One way towards the goal of a safe, and human-friendly robot, is to incorporate more and more of the flexibility that can be found in humans, by mimicking the internal mechanisms. In this work we propose a scalable joint-space control scheme based on computed torque control for an anthropomimetic robot. To achieve this, the dynamic system model of the robot is decomposed into hierarchical subsystems, using scalable modeling algorithms where possible. Machine learning techniques were employed to tackle the problem of muscle force to joint torque mapping. The developed control scheme has been evaluated using the highly refined simulation of an anthropomimetic robot arm featuring 11 muscles, a revolute elbow joint and a spherical shoulder joint. We show trajectory tracking based on a low-level muscle and a high-level joint control scheme, taking into account the coupling between the joints due to inertial reactions and bi-articular muscles.
AB - In the long history of robotics research, the most prominent problem has always been, to develop robots that can safely operate in human-centered environments. One way towards the goal of a safe, and human-friendly robot, is to incorporate more and more of the flexibility that can be found in humans, by mimicking the internal mechanisms. In this work we propose a scalable joint-space control scheme based on computed torque control for an anthropomimetic robot. To achieve this, the dynamic system model of the robot is decomposed into hierarchical subsystems, using scalable modeling algorithms where possible. Machine learning techniques were employed to tackle the problem of muscle force to joint torque mapping. The developed control scheme has been evaluated using the highly refined simulation of an anthropomimetic robot arm featuring 11 muscles, a revolute elbow joint and a spherical shoulder joint. We show trajectory tracking based on a low-level muscle and a high-level joint control scheme, taking into account the coupling between the joints due to inertial reactions and bi-articular muscles.
KW - anthropomimetic robot
KW - biomechanics
KW - biorobotics
KW - distributed control
KW - robot control
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84860754328&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ROBIO.2011.6181620
DO - 10.1109/ROBIO.2011.6181620
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84860754328
SN - 9781457721373
T3 - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2011
SP - 2211
EP - 2216
BT - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2011
T2 - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2011
Y2 - 7 December 2011 through 11 December 2011
ER -