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Decentralized control of rhythmic activities in fully-actuated/under-actuated robots

Yazdani, M ; Sharif University of Technology | 2018

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2017.12.003
  3. Publisher: Elsevier B.V , 2018
  4. Abstract:
  5. Rhythmic activities such as swimming stroke in the human body are learnable through conscious trainings. Inspiringly, the main objective of this study is to develop a control framework to reproduce the described functionality in the imitating robots. To do so, a two layer supervisory controller is proposed. The high-level controller, which acts as the conscious controller during trainings, is a supervisory dynamic-based controller and uses all system sensory data to generate stable rhythmic movements. On the other hand, the low-level controller in this structure is a distributed trajectory-based controller network. Each node in this network is an oscillatory dynamical system which has the ability to learn and reproduce the desired trajectory. Also, each node has a critic agent which evaluates the control eligibility of the low-level controllers for controlling the system. Then, based on the evaluation, these agents decide to assign the control of the system to the high-level controller or the low-level controllers. By using this structure, the system controller will act as simple and computing efficient as trajectory-based controllers and will perform as stably and robustly as dynamic-based controllers. At last, the applicability of this framework is demonstrated on a fully actuated robot and on an under-actuated biped robot. © 2018 Elsevier B.V
  6. Keywords:
  7. Biped robot ; Distributed control ; Online learning ; Rhythmic activity ; Supervisory control ; Decentralized control ; Distributed parameter control systems ; Dynamical systems ; Level control ; Robots ; Trajectories ; Controllers
  8. Source: Robotics and Autonomous Systems ; Volume 101 , 2018 , Pages 20-33 ; 09218890 (ISSN)
  9. URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921889017300192