具有多模式介面的輔助行走機器人之共同控制策略

Abstract

行走輔助機器人是幫助老年人或殘疾人安全、穩定、高效地移動的輔助設備。與傳統助行器提供的步行和復健功能相比，主動式輔助行走機器人爲特殊的使用者提供了不同程度的人工智慧以提升使用者的操控性和舒適度。 在本文中我們提出了一種多模態界面的基於學習的共享控制系統。該多模態介面包括利用步態分析所得特徵的認知人機互動介面和傳統的測量使用者施力狀態的物理互動介面。該介面通過一種新穎的傳感器資訊融合方法來預測使用者意圖，即一種結合模糊決策與具有長短期記憶的神經元網絡的架構：(一)深度相機用來估計使用者下肢運動和推斷使用者偏離機器人的速度方向的傾向；(二)力傳感器用來測量使用者手部作用于助行器扶手上的力。在此基礎上，考慮到機器人需具有自主適應不同使用者的操作習慣和運動能力的能力，我們提出了基於強化學習的共享控制算法，使機器人可以根據觀察到的具有個體差異性的控制效率及步行環境以動態地調整使用者控制的權重，從而提供適當的輔助以提高使用者在使用設備時的舒適度，以達到自動適應使用者行爲的效果。最後，通過仿真實驗和真實環境下的真人實驗，我們驗證了該算法在特定環境下的有效性。

Walking-aid robot is developed as an assistance device for enabling safe, stable and efficient locomotion for elderly or disabled individuals, which, furthermore, provides different levels of intelligence as additional aids to suit certain applications, such as navigation and rehabilitation function. In this thesis, a learning-based shared control system with multimodal interface is proposed, containing both cognitive human-robot interaction (HRI) for gait analysis and traditional physical HRI for measuring user's exerted force. The interface extracts navigation intentions from a novel neural network based method, which combines features from: (i) a depth camera to estimate the user legs' kinematics and to infer user orientation deviating from robot's velocity direction, and (ii) force sensors to measure the physical interaction between the human's hands and the robotic walker. Then, considering the robot's ability to autonomously adapt to different user's operation preference and motor abilities, a reinforcement learning-based shared control algorithm is proposed. By dynamically adjusting the user control weight according to different user's control efficiencies and walking environments, the robot not only can improve the user's degree of comfort while using the device but also can automatically adapt to user's behavior. Finally, the effectiveness of our algorithm is verified by simulation and experiments in a specified environment.