Identifying Inverse Human Arm Dynamics Using a Robotic Testbed
Document Type
Conference Paper
Publication Date
9-2014
Publication Title
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2014)
Abstract
We present a method to experimentally identify the inverse dynamics of a human arm. We drive a person's hand with a robot along smooth reaching trajectories while measuring the motion of the shoulder and elbow joints and the force required to move the hand. We fit a model that predicts the shoulder and elbow joint torques required to achieve a desired arm motion. This torque can be supplied by functional electrical stimulation of muscles to control the arm of a person paralyzed by spinal cord injury. Errors in predictions of the joint torques for a subject without spinal cord injury were less than 20% of the maximum torques observed in the identification experiments. In most cases a semiparametric Gaussian process model predicted joint torques with equal or less error than a nonparametric Gaussian process model or a parametric model.
Recommended Citation
Schearer, E. M., Yu-Wei Liao, Perreault, E. J., 2014, "Identifying inverse human arm dynamics using a robotic testbed," Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2014), 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on, pp. 3585-3591.
DOI
10.1109/IROS.2014.6943064
Comments
This work was supported by NSF grant 0932263 and NSF Graduate Fellowship DGE-0824162.