NDLI: Active and Passive Control of Walk-Assist Robot for Outdoor Guidance

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Chun-Hsu Ko Kuu-Young Young Yi-Che Huang Agrawal, S.K.
Copyright Year	1996
Abstract	In the currently aging society, walk-assist robots can play an important role in improving the activities of daily living of the elderly. In this paper, we propose a robot walking helper with both passive and active control modes for guidance. From the perspective of human safety, the passive mode adopts a braking control law on the wheels to differentially steer the vehicle. However, if the user walks uphill in the outdoor environment, external forces need to be supplied to the human-walker system. In this paper, we add an active mode to guide the user in situations where the passive control mode alone with user-applied forces is not adequate for guidance. The theory of differential flatness is used to plan the trajectory of control gains within the proposed scheme of the controller. Since the user input force and slope angle of the path are not known a priori , the theory of model predictive control is used to periodically compute the trajectory of these control gains. The simulation and experiment results show that the walk-assist robot, along with the structure of this proposed control scheme, can guide the user to a goal on a slope effectively.
Starting Page	1211
Ending Page	1220
Page Count	10
File Size	1489676
File Format	PDF
ISSN	10834435
Volume Number	18
Issue Number	3
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2013-01-01
Publisher Place	U.S.A.
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Legged locomotion Trajectory Planning Robot kinematics Force walk-assist robot Differential flatness model predictive control (MPC) slope guidance
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Control and Systems Engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering Computer Science Applications

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