Ensuring Interaction Safety in Multitask Exoskeleton Control: A Simulation-Trained Variable Impedance Framework
Wearable exoskeletons can augment human phys ical capabilities during complex activities. However, ensuring adaptation across diverse tasks while guaranteeing interaction safety remains a critical challenge. To address this, a simulation trained variable impedance control approach with stability guarantees is proposed. First, a simulation-based human exoskeleton motion data generation pipeline is established, utilizing Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) to synthesize human muscle activations while the exoskeleton provides direct compensation for human biological joint torques. Subsequently, the generated dataset is used to train a dual modality policy that fuses semantic instructions with proprioceptive history, enabling the prediction of reference trajectories and variable impedance gains for nine different motion tasks. To guarantee safety, the network outputs are constrained by a stability criterion derived from Lyapunov stability theory, which bounds stiffness variations to ensure the asymptotic stability of the coupled system. Experimental results indicate that the proposed framework reduces metabolic cost in real-world scenarios com pared with standard baseline methods. These findings suggest the feasibility of the proposed framework for safe, multitask exoskeleton control.
Code (0)
등록된 구현이 없습니다.
Similar Papers 제목 키워드 기반
Design and Koopman Model Predictive Control of A Soft Exoskeleton Based on Origami-Inspired Pneumatic Actuator for Knee Rehabilitation
Effective rehabilitation methods are essential for the recovery of lower limb dysfunction caused by stroke. Nowadays, robotic exoskeletons have shown great potentials in rehabilitation. Nevertheless, traditional rigid ex…
From Vision to Assistance: Gaze and Vision-Enabled Adaptive Control for a Back-Support Exoskeleton
Back-support exoskeletons have been proposed to mitigate spinal loading in industrial handling, yet their effectiveness critically depends on timely and context-aware assistance. Most existing approaches rely either on l…
A Semantic-Aware Framework for Safe and Intent-Integrative Assistance in Upper-Limb Exoskeletons
Upper-limb exoskeletons are primarily designed to provide assistive support by accurately interpreting and responding to human intentions. In home-care scenarios, exoskeletons are expected to adapt their assistive config…
Data-driven Force Observer for Human-Robot Interaction with Series Elastic Actuators using Gaussian Processes
Ensuring safety and adapting to the user's behavior are of paramount importance in physical human-robot interaction. Thus, incorporating elastic actuators in the robot's mechanical design has become popular, since it off…
Gaussian ProcessesReinforcement Learning Based Adaptive WalkingAssistance Control of a Lower Limb Exoskeleton
Lower limb exoskeleton for people suffering from unilateral weakness or even hemiparesis has attracted considerable interest in recent years. For walking assistance in such scenarios, the exoskeleton is expected to help …
reinforcement-learningReinforcement Learning (RL)