Citation

Kojima M, Sugihara T. Front. Robot. AI 2022; 9: e729593.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2022, Frontiers Media)

DOI

10.3389/frobt.2022.729593

PMID

35572372

PMCID

PMC9096700

Abstract

An explicit mathematical form of a human's step-and-brake controller is identified through motion measurement of the human subject. The controller was originally designed for biped robots based on the reduced-order dynamics and the model predictive control scheme with the terminal capturability condition, and is compatible with both stand-still and stepping motions. The minimal number of parameters facilitates the identification from measured trajectories of the center of mass and the zero-moment point of the human subject. In spite of the minimality, the result only suited the human's behaviors well with slight modifications of the model by taking direction-dependency of the natural falling speed and the inertial torque about the center of mass into account. Furthermore, the parameters are successfully identified even from the first half of motion sequence, which means that the proposed method is available in designing on-the-fly systems to evaluate balancing abilities of humans and to assist balances of humans in walking.

Language: en

Keywords

biped locomotion; capturability; COM-ZMP model; human motor control; step-and-brake motion; system identification