Trabajo presentado en la IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), conferencia virtual celebrada del 31 de mayo al 31 de agosto de 2020 ; Human-robot interaction is one of the keys of assistive robots. Robots are expected to be compliant with people but at the same time correctly perform the tasks. In such applications, Cartesian impedance control is preferred over joint control, as the desired interaction and environmental feedback can be described more naturally, and the force to be exerted by the robot can be readily adjusted. This paper addresses the problem of controlling a robot arm in the operational space with variable stiffness so as to continuously adapt the force exerted in each phase of motion according to the precision requirements. Moreover, performing dimensionality reduction we can separate the degrees of freedom (DoF) relevant for the task from the redundant ones. The stiffness of the former can be adjusted constantly to achieve the required accuracy, while task-redundant DoF can be used to achieve other goals such as avoiding obstacles by moving in the directions where accuracy is not critical. The designed method is tested teaching the robot to give water to drink to a model of human head. Our empirical results demonstrate that the robot can learn precision requirements from demonstration. Furthermore, dimensionality reduction is proved to be useful to avoid obstacles. ; This work was partially developed in the context of the project CLOTHILDE ("CLOTH manIpulation Learning from DEmonstrations"), which has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Advanced Grant agreement No 741930). This work is also supported by the Spanish State Research Agency through the María de Maeztu Seal of Excellence to IRI MdM-IP-2018-05. ; Peer reviewed


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    Title :

    Variable impedance control in Cartesian latent space while avoiding obstacles in null space



    Publication date :

    2020-01-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English


    Classification :

    DDC:    629



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