全身運動に基づく不確実性対応型コンプライアント支援のための参照軌道生成
Whole-Body Motion Guided Reference Generation for Uncertainty-Aware Compliant Assistance
全身運動と外骨格の固有感覚から将来の支援軌道を生成し、その予測分散を不確実性として可変アドミタンス制御の剛性調整に用いる二重ループ支援手法を提案した。筋活動と代謝エネルギーを低減することを実験で示した。
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著者: Muyuan Ma, Long Cheng, Lijun Han, Haotian Zhai, Xinpan Meng, Xiuze Xia, Houcheng Li, Zeyu Liu
分類: cs.RO
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Exoskeletons have shown great potential for augmenting human physical capabilities, yet generating reliable assistance remains challenging because human motion patterns and interaction requirements vary substantially in practice. To address this problem, a dual-loop assistance strategy is proposed to couple multimodal exoskeleton trajectory generation with variable admittance control, where trajectory variance links the outer-loop generator and the inner-loop controller. The generator synthesizes future exoskeleton trajectories through denoising, primarily using whole-body human motion and exoskeleton proprioception, with task descriptions as auxiliary semantic cues. To reduce cross-modal representation mismatch, a three-stage training pipeline is introduced to progressively optimize the human motion encoder, the exoskeleton proprioception encoder, and the trajectory generator. In the inner loop, multiple future trajectories are sampled from the generator to estimate the trajectory mean and variance. The mean is used as the control reference, while the variance provides an uncertainty measure for prediction reliability. This measure is further incorporated into a stiffness regulation law, enabling compliant assistance with input-to-state stability under bounded lumped interaction input. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method significantly reduces muscle activation levels compared with standard baselines, while also decreasing users' metabolic energy expenditure relative to the unassisted condition.