Intention Recognition in Physical Human-Robot Interaction Based on Radial Basis Function Neural Network

Abstract

To solve synchronization movement problem in human-robot haptic collaboration, the robot is often required to recognize intention of the cooperator. In this paper, a method based on radial basis function neural network (RBFNN) model is presented to identify the motion intention of collaborator. Here, the human intention is defined as the desired velocity in human limb model, of which the estimation is obtained in real time based on interaction force and the contact point movement characteristics (current position and velocity of the robot) by the trained RBFNN model. To obtain training samples, adaptive impedance control method is used to control the robot during the data acquisition process, and then the data matching is executed due to the phase delay of the impedance function. The advantage of proposed intention estimation method according to the system real-time status is that the model overcomes the shortcoming of difficult estimating the human body impedance parameters. The experimental results show that this proposed method improves the synchronization of human-robot collaboration and reduces the force of the collaborator.