TY - JOUR
T1 - Semiautonomous wheelchair based on quarry of environmental information
AU - Katsura, Seiichiro
AU - Ohnishi, Kouhei
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received July 18, 2003; revised May 24, 2005. Abstract published on the Internet May 18, 2006. This work was supported in part by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan under Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), 17206027, 2005.
PY - 2006/6
Y1 - 2006/6
N2 - In this paper, an intelligent wheelchair robot for adaptation to an unknown environment is developed. Environmental information is a key factor to comply to an unknown and/or unstructured environment. Since the environment has an infinite number of modes, the environmental information should be classified into some modes. This paper develops a novel viewpoint of robot motion control based on quarry of environmental information. The robot adapts to the environment based on the remote and contact information. In order to adapt to the remote environment, the obstacle avoidance problem is treated. This kind of robot motion control is based on position control. On the contrary, in order to adapt to the contact information, compliance control is applied to a robot. If the robot collides with the obstacles, the impact force is relaxed by the method, and safety is improved. This controller, on the other hand, is based on force control. In this paper, position control and force control are integrated in the acceleration dimension based on acceleration control. The robust acceleration control is attained by the disturbance observer. Finally, a semiautonomous function is installed for the improvement of human operationality. The numerical and experimental results show viability of the proposed method.
AB - In this paper, an intelligent wheelchair robot for adaptation to an unknown environment is developed. Environmental information is a key factor to comply to an unknown and/or unstructured environment. Since the environment has an infinite number of modes, the environmental information should be classified into some modes. This paper develops a novel viewpoint of robot motion control based on quarry of environmental information. The robot adapts to the environment based on the remote and contact information. In order to adapt to the remote environment, the obstacle avoidance problem is treated. This kind of robot motion control is based on position control. On the contrary, in order to adapt to the contact information, compliance control is applied to a robot. If the robot collides with the obstacles, the impact force is relaxed by the method, and safety is improved. This controller, on the other hand, is based on force control. In this paper, position control and force control are integrated in the acceleration dimension based on acceleration control. The robust acceleration control is attained by the disturbance observer. Finally, a semiautonomous function is installed for the improvement of human operationality. The numerical and experimental results show viability of the proposed method.
KW - Acceleration control
KW - Compliance control
KW - Disturbance observer
KW - Environmental information
KW - Haptics
KW - Human-robot interaction
KW - Motion control
KW - Obstacle avoidance
KW - Quarry process
KW - Wheelchair
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U2 - 10.1109/TIE.2006.878294
DO - 10.1109/TIE.2006.878294
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33747609120
SN - 0278-0046
VL - 53
SP - 1373
EP - 1382
JO - IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
JF - IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
IS - 4
ER -