On the Effect of Human Arm Manipulability in 3D Force Tasks: Towards Force-controlled Exoskeletons
Coupling the human upper limbs with robotic devices is gaining increasing attention in the last decade, due to the emerging applications in orthotics, prosthetics and rehabilitation devices. In the cases of every-day life tasks, force exertion and generally interaction with the environment is absolutely critical. Therefore, the decoding of the user’s force exertion intention is important for the robust control of orthotic robots (e.g. arm exoskeletons). In this paper, the human arm manipulability is analyzed and its effect on the recruitment of the musculo-skeletal system is explored. It was found that the recruitment and activation of muscles is strongly affected by arm manipulability. Based on this finding, a decoding method is built in order to estimate force exerted in the three-dimensional (3D) task space from surface ElectroMyoGraphic (EMG) signals, recorded from muscles of the arm. The method is using the manipulability information for the given force task. Experimental results were verified in various arm configurations with two subjects.
Panagiotis K. Artemiadis Pantelis T. Katsiaris Minas V. Liarokapis Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
Department of Mechanical Engineering,Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),Cambridge,MA,USA Control Systems Lab,School of Mechanical Eng.,National Technical University of Athens,9 Heroon Polyt
国际会议
2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation(2011年IEEE世界机器人与自动化大会 ICRA 2011)
上海
英文
3784-3789
2011-05-09（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）