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A kind of biomimetic control method to anthropomorphize a redundant manipulator for complex tasks

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It is an urgent problem for robots to operate complex tasks with some unknown motion mechanisms caused by the strong coupling of force and motion. However, humans can perform complex tasks well due to their natural evolution and postnatal training. A novel biomimetic control method based on a human motion mechanism with high movement adaptability is proposed in this paper. The core is to present a novel variable-parameter compliance controller based on human operation mechanisms with an action-planning method derived from optimization by human motion, and the main contribution is to change the parameters of compliance controller according to human operating intention synchronized with humanoid motion; this change could establish a humanoid map between the force and motion for a seven degree-of-freedom redundant manipulator to deal with the unknown motion mechanism in complex tasks, so the redundant manipulator can operate complex tasks with high performance. Sufficient experiments were performed, and the results validated the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

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  1. School of Mechatronic Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China

    Yang Mo, ZhiHong Jiang, Hui Li, Hong Yang & Qiang Huang

  2. Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Intelligent Robots and Systems, Beijing, 100081, China

    Yang Mo, ZhiHong Jiang, Hui Li & Qiang Huang

  3. Key Laboratory of Biomimetic Robots and Systems, Ministry of Education, Beijing, 100081, China

    Yang Mo, ZhiHong Jiang, Hui Li & Qiang Huang

  4. Institute of Manned Spacecraft System Engineering, China Academy of Space Technology, Beijing, 100080, China

    Hong Yang

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This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2018YFB1305300), the Key Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61733001, U1713215), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61573063, 61873039).

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Mo, Y., Jiang, Z., Li, H. et al. A kind of biomimetic control method to anthropomorphize a redundant manipulator for complex tasks. Sci. China Technol. Sci. 63, 14–24 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11431-019-9542-5

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