Tiseo, Carlo, Charitos, Sydney Rebecca and Mistry, Michael (2021) Exploiting spherical projections to generate human-like wrist pointing movements. 2021 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), Mexico, 1-5 November 2021. Published in: 2021 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC). IEEE ISSN 2375-7477 ISBN 9781728111803

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Abstract

The mechanism behind the generation of human movements is of great interest in many fields (e.g. robotics and neuroscience) to improve therapies and technologies. Optimal Feedback Control (OFC) and Passive Motion Paradigm (PMP) are currently two leading theories capable of effectively producing human-like motions, but they require solving nonlinear inverse problems to find a solution. The main benefit of using PMP is the possibility of generating path-independent movements consistent with the stereotypical behaviour observed in humans, while the equivalent OFC formulation is path-dependent. Our results demonstrate how the path-independent behaviour observed for the wrist pointing task can be explained by spherical projections of the planar tasks. The combination of the projections with the fractal impedance controller eliminates the nonlinear inverse problem, which reduces the computational cost compared to previous methodologies. The motion exploits a recently proposed PMP architecture that replaces the nonlinear inverse optimisation with a nonlinear anisotropic stiffness impedance profile generated by the Fractal Impedance Controller, reducing the computational cost and not requiring a task-dependent optimisation.

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Schools and Departments:	School of Engineering and Informatics > Engineering and Design
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Date Deposited:	15 Dec 2021 09:17
Last Modified:	04 Mar 2022 17:29
URI:	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/103374

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