Abstract:A nonlinear robust adaptive bilateral impedance controller is proposed to provide the absolute stability of multi-DOF teleoperation systems with communication delays, in addition to the force and position tracking performance. The proposed controller realizes two desired (or reference) impedance models for the master and slave robots using a new nonlinear robust version of the Model Reference Adaptive Control (MRAC) scheme. Using the absolute stability criterion, the robustness condition of the teleoperation s… Show more
“…Method 2 : The bilateral impedance control (Sharifi et al , 2018) is used, where the impedance control is set for both leader and follower robot. The impedance parameters are tuned separately across different subjects.…”
Purpose
This paper aims to propose a bilateral robotic system for lower extremity hemiparesis rehabilitation. The hemiplegic patients can complete rehabilitation exercise voluntarily with the assistance of the robot. The reinforcement learning is included in the robot control system, enhancing the muscle activation of the impaired limbs (ILs) efficiently with ensuring the patients’ safety.
Design/methodology/approach
A bilateral leader–follower robotic system is constructed for lower extremity hemiparesis rehabilitation, where the leader robot interacts with the healthy limb (HL) and the follow robot is worn by the IL. The therapeutic training is transferred from the HL to the IL with the assistance of the robot, and the IL follows the motion trajectory prescribed by the HL, which is called the mirror therapy. The model reference adaptive impedance control is used for the leader robot, and the reinforcement learning controller is designed for the follower robot. The reinforcement learning aims to increase the muscle activation of the IL and ensure that its motion can be mastered by the HL for safety. An asynchronous algorithm is designed by improving experience relay to run in parallel on multiple robotic platforms to reduce learning time.
Findings
Through clinical tests, the lower extremity hemiplegic patients can rehabilitate with high efficiency using the robotic system. Also, the proposed scheme outperforms other state-of-the-art methods in tracking performance, muscle activation, learning efficiency and rehabilitation efficacy.
Originality/value
Using the aimed robotic system, the lower extremity hemiplegic patients with different movement abilities can obtain better rehabilitation efficacy.
“…Method 2 : The bilateral impedance control (Sharifi et al , 2018) is used, where the impedance control is set for both leader and follower robot. The impedance parameters are tuned separately across different subjects.…”
Purpose
This paper aims to propose a bilateral robotic system for lower extremity hemiparesis rehabilitation. The hemiplegic patients can complete rehabilitation exercise voluntarily with the assistance of the robot. The reinforcement learning is included in the robot control system, enhancing the muscle activation of the impaired limbs (ILs) efficiently with ensuring the patients’ safety.
Design/methodology/approach
A bilateral leader–follower robotic system is constructed for lower extremity hemiparesis rehabilitation, where the leader robot interacts with the healthy limb (HL) and the follow robot is worn by the IL. The therapeutic training is transferred from the HL to the IL with the assistance of the robot, and the IL follows the motion trajectory prescribed by the HL, which is called the mirror therapy. The model reference adaptive impedance control is used for the leader robot, and the reinforcement learning controller is designed for the follower robot. The reinforcement learning aims to increase the muscle activation of the IL and ensure that its motion can be mastered by the HL for safety. An asynchronous algorithm is designed by improving experience relay to run in parallel on multiple robotic platforms to reduce learning time.
Findings
Through clinical tests, the lower extremity hemiplegic patients can rehabilitate with high efficiency using the robotic system. Also, the proposed scheme outperforms other state-of-the-art methods in tracking performance, muscle activation, learning efficiency and rehabilitation efficacy.
Originality/value
Using the aimed robotic system, the lower extremity hemiplegic patients with different movement abilities can obtain better rehabilitation efficacy.
“…To solve the problem, impedance control is adopted to improve transparency and flexibility for underwater teleoperation systems. Two desired impedance models [14]- [15] are proposed for underwater teleoperation systems to provide the manipulators' desired trajectory. The impedance control models can regulate the reference trajectory tracked by the manipulators through changes of different contact forces, which improves the transparency and makes the teleoperation systems complete more precise work in applications.…”
New robust fixed-time model-free impedance controllers are proposed in this paper for coordination control of underwater teleoperation systems with system model uncertainties and unknown external underwater interference. Firstly, the transparency and the flexibility of the master-slave manipulators are improved without force sensor, respectively. A new terminal sliding mode force observer is designed to estimate force in fixed time by designing observer parameters. Moreover, time delay estimators are designed to compensate for the effect of model uncertainties and unknown external disturbances. Furthermore, a novel nonsingular integral terminal sliding mode (NITSM) surface and fixed-time controllers are proposed, so that master-slave coordination control can be obtained in fixed time with zero errors. The coordination performance and global stability of the underwater teleoperation systems are proved with the Lyapunov stability theory. Finally, simulation results highlight the feasibility of the proposed control scheme. The results show the super performance of the position and force coordination control for the underwater teleoperation systems.
“…Teleoperation systems bring together communication networks, robotics and modern control theories to enable remote manipulation over a distance [1][2][3]. In such systems, a human operator manipulates a master robot via the exchange of signals over a communication network to command a slave robot to perform tasks in a remote environment.…”
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