Semi-autonomous Trajectory Generation for Mobile Robots with Integral Haptic Shared Control

TitleSemi-autonomous Trajectory Generation for Mobile Robots with Integral Haptic Shared Control
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2014
AuthorsMasone, C, Robuffo Giordano, P, Bülthoff, HH, Franchi, A
Conference Name2014 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation
Pagination6468-6475
Date Published05/2014
Conference LocationHong Kong, China
KeywordsBilateral Shared Control of Mobile Robots
Abstract

A new framework for semi-autonomous path plan- ning for mobile robots that extends the classical paradigm of bilateral shared control is presented. The path is represented as a B-spline and the human operator can modify its shape by controlling the motion of a finite number of control points. An autonomous algorithm corrects in real time the human directives in order to facilitate path tracking for the mobile robot and ensures i) collision avoidance, ii) path regularity, and iii) attraction to nearby points of interest. A haptic feedback algorithm processes both human’s and autonomous control terms, and their integrals, to provide an information of the mismatch between the path specified by the operator and the one corrected by the autonomous algorithm. The framework is validated with extensive experiments using a quadrotor UAV and a human in the loop with two haptic interfaces.

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