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Learning industrial robot force/torque compensation: A comparison of support vector and random forests regression
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posted on 2017-01-09, 13:30 authored by Ali Al-Yacoub, Sara Sharifzadeh, Niels Lohse, Zahid Usman, Yee GohYee Goh, Michael JacksonHaptics, as well as force and torque measurements, are increasingly gaining attention in the fields of kinesthetic learning and robot Learning from demonstration (LfD). For such learning techniques, it is essential to obtain accurate force and torque measurements in order to enable accurate control. However, force and torque measurements using a 6-axis force and torque sensor mounted at the end effector of an industrial robot are known to be corrupted due to the robots internal forces, gravity, un-modelled dynamics and nonlinear effects. This paper presents an evaluation of two techniques, SVR and Random Forests, to recover the external forces and accurately selected possible contact situations by estimating a robots internal forces. The performance of the learned models have been evaluated using different performance metrics and comparing them with respect to the features contained in the input space. Both SVR and Random Forests require low computational complexity without intensive training over the operational space under the given ssumptions. In addition, these methods do not need data to be available online. The SVR and Random Forests models are experimentally validated using Motoman SDA10D dual-arm industrial robot controlled by Robot Operating System (ROS). The experiments showed that force and torque compensation based on Random Forests has outperformed Support Vector Regression.
Funding
The authors acknowledge support from the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Intelligent Automation, in undertaking this research work under grant reference number EP/IO33467/1.
History
School
- Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
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ISAR 2016 - The International Conference on Intelligent Systems and RoboticsCitation
AL-YACOUB, A. ...et al., 2016. Learning industrial robot force/torque compensation: A comparison of support vector and random forests regression. IN: Hamza, M.H. (ed.) International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Robotics (ISAR 2016), Zurich, Zwitzerland, 6-8th October.Publisher
© Acta PressVersion
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2016-08-04Publication date
2016Notes
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- en