SUPER-MAN：人間とロボットの協調作業を支援するスーパーナメラリ・ロボットボディ
SUPER-MAN: SUPERnumerary Robotic Bodies for Physical Assistance in HuMAN-Robot Conjoined Actions
人間の動作に追従して作業を支援する移動型スーパーナメラリ・ロボットシステムを提案し、2種類の実装とユーザー評価を示した論文。
著者: Alberto Giammarino, Juan M. Gandarias, Pietro Balatti, Mattia Leonori, Marta Lorenzini, Arash Ajoudani
分類: cs.RO
原文アブストラクト
This paper presents a mobile supernumerary robotic approach to physical assistance in human-robot conjoined actions. The study starts with a description of the SUPER-MAN concept. The idea is to develop and utilize mobile collaborative systems that can follow human loco-manipulation commands to perform industrial tasks through three main components: i) an admittance-type interface, ii) a human-robot interaction controller, and iii) a supernumerary robotic body. Next, we present two possible implementations within the framework from theoretical and hardware perspectives. The first system is called MOCA-MAN and comprises a redundant torque-controlled robotic arm and an omnidirectional mobile platform. The second one is called Kairos-MAN, formed by a high-payload 6-DoF velocity-controlled robotic arm and an omnidirectional mobile platform. The systems share the same admittance interface, through which user wrenches are translated to loco-manipulation commands generated by whole-body controllers of each system. Besides, a thorough user study with multiple and cross-gender subjects is presented to reveal the quantitative performance of the two systems in effort-demanding and dexterous tasks. Moreover, we provide qualitative results from the NASA-TLX questionnaire to demonstrate the SUPER-MAN approach's potential and its acceptability from the users' viewpoint.
