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Learning compliant robotic movements based on biomimetic motor adaptation (2020)
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Zeng, C., Chen, X., Wang, N., & Yang, C. (2021). Learning compliant robotic movements based on biomimetic motor adaptation. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 135, Article 103668. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2020.103668

It is one of the great challenges for a robot to learn compliant movements in interaction tasks. The robot can easily acquire motion skills from a human tutor by kinematics demonstration, however, this becomes much more difficult when it comes to the... Read More about Learning compliant robotic movements based on biomimetic motor adaptation.

Robust neurooptimal control for a robot via adaptive dynamic programming (2020)
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Kong, L., He, W., Yang, C., & Sun, C. (2021). Robust neurooptimal control for a robot via adaptive dynamic programming. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 32(6), 2584-2594. https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2020.3006850

We aim at the optimization of the tracking control of a robot to improve the robustness, under the effect of unknown nonlinear perturbations. First, an auxiliary system is introduced, and optimal control of the auxiliary system can be seen as an appr... Read More about Robust neurooptimal control for a robot via adaptive dynamic programming.

Recent advances in robot-assisted echography: Combining perception, control and cognition (2020)
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Lu, Z., Li, M., Annamalai, A., & Yang, C. (2020). Recent advances in robot-assisted echography: Combining perception, control and cognition. Cognitive Computation and Systems, 2(3), 85-92. https://doi.org/10.1049/ccs.2020.0015

Echography imaging is an important technique frequently used in medical diagnostics due to low-cost, non-ionising characteristics, and pragmatic convenience. Due to the shortage of skilful technicians and injuries of physicians sustained from diagnos... Read More about Recent advances in robot-assisted echography: Combining perception, control and cognition.

An incremental learning framework to enhance teaching by demonstration based on multimodal sensor fusion (2020)
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Li, J., Zhong, J., Yang, J., & Yang, C. (2020). An incremental learning framework to enhance teaching by demonstration based on multimodal sensor fusion. Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 14(55), https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbot.2020.00055

Though a robot can reproduce the demonstration trajectory from a human demonstrator by teleoperation, there is a certain error between the reproduced trajectory and the desired trajectory. To minimize this error, we propose a multimodal incremental l... Read More about An incremental learning framework to enhance teaching by demonstration based on multimodal sensor fusion.

Disturbance observer enhanced variable gain controller for robot teleoperation with motion capture using wearable armbands (2020)
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Huang, D., Yang, C., Ju, Z., & Dai, S. (2020). Disturbance observer enhanced variable gain controller for robot teleoperation with motion capture using wearable armbands. Autonomous Robots, 44(7), 1217-1231. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10514-020-09928-7

Disturbance observer (DOB) based controller performs well in estimating and compensating for perturbation when the external or internal unknown disturbance is slowly time varying. However, to some extent, robot manipulators usually work in complex en... Read More about Disturbance observer enhanced variable gain controller for robot teleoperation with motion capture using wearable armbands.

Novel joint-drift-free scheme at acceleration level for robotic redundancy resolution with tracking error theoretically eliminated (2020)
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Jin, L., Xie, Z., Liu, M., Chen, K., Li, C., & Yang, C. (2021). Novel joint-drift-free scheme at acceleration level for robotic redundancy resolution with tracking error theoretically eliminated. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 26(1), 90-101. https://doi.org/10.1109/tmech.2020.3001624

In this article, three acceleration-level joint-drift-free (ALJDF) schemes for kinematic control of redundant manipulators are proposed and analyzed from perspectives of dynamics and kinematics with the corresponding tracking error analyses. First, t... Read More about Novel joint-drift-free scheme at acceleration level for robotic redundancy resolution with tracking error theoretically eliminated.

Neural-learning-based force sensorless admittance control for robots with input deadzone (2020)
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Peng, G., Chen, C. L. P., He, W., & Yang, C. (2021). Neural-learning-based force sensorless admittance control for robots with input deadzone. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 68(6), 5184-5196. https://doi.org/10.1109/tie.2020.2991929

This paper presents a neural networks based admittance control scheme for robotic manipulators when interacting with the unknown environment in the presence of the actuator deadzone without needing force sensing. A compliant behaviour of robotic mani... Read More about Neural-learning-based force sensorless admittance control for robots with input deadzone.

Adaptive dynamic programming-based controller with admittance adaptation for robot–environment interaction (2020)
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Zhan, H., Huang, D., Chen, Z., Wang, M., & Yang, C. (2020). Adaptive dynamic programming-based controller with admittance adaptation for robot–environment interaction. International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 17(3), 172988142092461. https://doi.org/10.1177/1729881420924610

The problem of optimal tracking control for robot–environment interaction is studied in this article. The environment is regarded as a linear system and an admittance control with iterative linear quadratic regulator method is obtained to guarantee t... Read More about Adaptive dynamic programming-based controller with admittance adaptation for robot–environment interaction.

Disturbance observer-based fault-tolerant control for robotic systems with guaranteed prescribed performance (2020)
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Huang, H., He, W., Li, J., Xu, B., Yang, C., & Zhang, W. (2022). Disturbance observer-based fault-tolerant control for robotic systems with guaranteed prescribed performance. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 52(2), 772-783. https://doi.org/10.1109/tcyb.2019.2921254

The actuator failure compensation control problem of robotic systems possessing dynamic uncertainties has been investigated in this paper. Control design against partial loss of effectiveness (PLOE) and total loss of effectiveness (TLOE) of the actua... Read More about Disturbance observer-based fault-tolerant control for robotic systems with guaranteed prescribed performance.

Biologically inspired deadbeat control of robotic leg prostheses (2020)
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Pi, M., Li, Z., Li, Q., Kan, Z., Xu, C., Kang, Y., …Yang, C. (2020). Biologically inspired deadbeat control of robotic leg prostheses. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 25(6), 2733-2742. https://doi.org/10.1109/tmech.2020.2990406

Recent advances in robotics technology provide great support for robotic leg prostheses to realize full biomechanical functionalities of the contralateral leg. In order to reproduce the biomechanical behaviors of the contralateral leg, this article a... Read More about Biologically inspired deadbeat control of robotic leg prostheses.

Multi-hierarchy interaction control of a redundant robot using impedance learning (2020)
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Jiang, Y., Yang, C., Wang, Y., Ju, Z., Li, Y., & Su, C. (2020). Multi-hierarchy interaction control of a redundant robot using impedance learning. Mechatronics, 67, Article 102348. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechatronics.2020.102348

The control of robots with a compliant joint motion is important for reducing collision forces and improving safety during human robot interactions. In this paper, a multi-hierarchy control framework is proposed for the redundant robot to enable the... Read More about Multi-hierarchy interaction control of a redundant robot using impedance learning.

Admittance-based controller design for physical human-robot interaction in the constrained task space (2020)
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He, W., Xue, C., Yu, X., Li, Z., & Yang, C. (2020). Admittance-based controller design for physical human-robot interaction in the constrained task space. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 17(4), 1937-1949. https://doi.org/10.1109/tase.2020.2983225

In this article, an admittance-based controller for physical human-robot interaction (pHRI) is presented to perform the coordinated operation in the constrained task space. An admittance model and a soft saturation function are employed to generate a... Read More about Admittance-based controller design for physical human-robot interaction in the constrained task space.

A method of motion recognition based on electromyographic signals (2020)
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Luo, J., Liu, C., Feng, Y., & Yang, C. (2020). A method of motion recognition based on electromyographic signals. Advanced Robotics, 34(15), 976-984. https://doi.org/10.1080/01691864.2020.1750480

In a robot-assisted surgery, a skillful surgeon can perform the operation excellently through flexible wrist motions and rich experience. However, there are little researches about the relationship between the wrist motion and electromyography (EMG)... Read More about A method of motion recognition based on electromyographic signals.

Hand gesture recognition in complex background based on convolutional pose machine and fuzzy gaussian mixture models (2020)
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Zhang, T., Lin, H., Ju, Z., & Yang, C. (2020). Hand gesture recognition in complex background based on convolutional pose machine and fuzzy gaussian mixture models. International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, 22, 1330-1341. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40815-020-00825-w

© 2020, The Author(s). Hand gesture is one of the most intuitive and natural ways for human to communicate with computers, and it has been widely adopted in many human–computer interaction applications. However, it is still a challenging problem when... Read More about Hand gesture recognition in complex background based on convolutional pose machine and fuzzy gaussian mixture models.

Reinforcement learning control of a flexible two-link manipulator: an experimental investigation (2020)
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He, W., Gao, H., Zhou, C., Yang, C., & Li, Z. (2021). Reinforcement learning control of a flexible two-link manipulator: an experimental investigation. IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics: Systems, 51(12), 7326-7336. https://doi.org/10.1109/TSMC.2020.2975232

This article discusses the control design and experiment validation of a flexible two-link manipulator (FTLM) system represented by ordinary differential equations (ODEs). A reinforcement learning (RL) control strategy is developed that is based on a... Read More about Reinforcement learning control of a flexible two-link manipulator: an experimental investigation.

Information entropy-based intention prediction of aerial targets under uncertain and incomplete information (2020)
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Zhou, T., Chen, M., Wang, Y., He, J., & Yang, C. (2020). Information entropy-based intention prediction of aerial targets under uncertain and incomplete information. Entropy, 22(3), Article 279. https://doi.org/10.3390/e22030279

© 2020 by authors. To improve the effectiveness of air combat decision-making systems, target intention has been extensively studied. In general, aerial target intention is composed of attack, surveillance, penetration, feint, defense, reconnaissance... Read More about Information entropy-based intention prediction of aerial targets under uncertain and incomplete information.

Mixed reality enhanced user interactive path planning for omnidirectional mobile robot (2020)
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Wu, M., Dai, S., & Yang, C. (2020). Mixed reality enhanced user interactive path planning for omnidirectional mobile robot. Applied Sciences, 10(3), Article 1135. https://doi.org/10.3390/app10031135

This paper proposes a novel control system for the path planning of an omnidirectional mobile robot based on mixed reality. Most research on mobile robots is carried out in a completely real environment or a completely virtual environment. However, a... Read More about Mixed reality enhanced user interactive path planning for omnidirectional mobile robot.

A sEMG-based shared control system with no-target obstacle avoidance for omnidirectional mobile robots (2020)
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Kong, H., Yang, C., Li, G., & Dai, S. (2020). A sEMG-based shared control system with no-target obstacle avoidance for omnidirectional mobile robots. IEEE Access, 8, 26030-26040. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2020.2970468

We propose a novel shared control strategy for mobile robots in a human-robot interaction manner based on surface eletromyography (sEMG) signals. For security reasons, an obstacle avoidance scheme is introduced to the shared control system as collisi... Read More about A sEMG-based shared control system with no-target obstacle avoidance for omnidirectional mobile robots.

Neural learning enhanced variable admittance control for human-robot collaboration (2020)
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Chen, X., Wang, N., Cheng, H., & Yang, C. (2020). Neural learning enhanced variable admittance control for human-robot collaboration. IEEE Access, 8, 25727-25737. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2020.2969085

© 2013 IEEE. In this paper, we propose a novel strategy for human-robot impedance mapping to realize an effective execution of human-robot collaboration. The endpoint stiffness of the human arm impedance is estimated according to the configurations o... Read More about Neural learning enhanced variable admittance control for human-robot collaboration.