Mapping human intentions to robot motions via physical interaction through a jointly-held object

In this paper we consider the problem of human-robot collaborative manipulation of an object, where the human is active in controlling the motion, and the robot is passively following the human's lead. Assuming that the human grasp of the object only allows for transfer of forces and not torques, there is a disambiguity as to whether the human desires translation or rotation. In this paper, we analyze different approaches to this problem both theoretically and in experiment. This leads to the proposal of a control methodology that uses switching between two different admittance control modes based on the magnitude of measured force to achieve disambiguation of the rotation/translation problem.

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