Overview
- Develops methods for best performance and stability in shared control systems
- Winner of the Georges Giralt PhD Award
- Provides a framework to make adaptive shared controllers stable
Part of the book series: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (STAR, volume 158)
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (7 chapters)
Keywords
About this book
Robotic research and developments in computing technologies including artificial intelligence have led to significant improvements in autonomous capabilities of robots. Yet, human supervision is advisable and, in many cases, necessary when robots interact with real-world, outside-lab environments. This is due to the fact that complete autonomy in robots has not yet been achieved. When robots encounter challenges beyond their capabilities, a viable solution is to include human operators in the loop, who can support robots through teleoperation, taking complete control or shared control.
This monograph focuses on a special form of shared control, namely mixed-initiative, where the final command to the robot is a weighted sum of the commands from the operator and the autonomous controller. The weights (fixed or adaptive), called authority allocation (AA) factors, decide who has more control authority over the robot. Several research groups use different methods toadapt the AA factors online and the benefits of adaptive mixed-initiative shared control have been well established in terms of task completion success and operator usability. However, stability of the overall shared control framework, with communication time-delays between the operator and the robot, is a field that has not been examined extensively. This monograph presents methods to improve performance and stability in shared control so that the possibilities of its applications can be widened. Firstly, methods to improve the haptic feedback performance of teleoperation are developed. Secondly, methods to stabilize adaptive shared control systems, while still ensuring high teleoperation performance, are proposed. The methods are validated on multiple robotic systems and they were applied in several projects, both in space and terrestrial domains.
With the aforementioned contributions, this monograph provides an overarching framework to improve synergy between humans and robots. The flexibility of the framework allows integration of existent teleoperation and shared control approaches, which further promotes synergy within the robotics community.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Stable and Transparent Framework for Adaptive Shared Control of Robots
Authors: Ribin Balachandran
Series Title: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47934-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Intelligent Technologies and Robotics, Intelligent Technologies and Robotics (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-47933-5Published: 03 January 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-47936-6Due: 29 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-47934-2Published: 28 December 2023
Series ISSN: 1610-7438
Series E-ISSN: 1610-742X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 181
Number of Illustrations: 63 b/w illustrations, 92 illustrations in colour
Topics: Control, Robotics, Mechatronics, Robotics and Automation, Control and Systems Theory