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Analysis on the Kinematics and Dynamics of Human Arm Movement Toward Upper Limb Exoskeleton Robot Control - Part 2: Combination of Kinematic and Dynamic Constraints

상지 외골격 로봇 제어를 위한 인체 팔 동작의 기구학 및 동역학적 분석 - 파트 2: 제한조건의 선형 결합

  • Kim, Hyunchul (Electrical Engineering, University of California) ;
  • Lee, Choon-Young (School of Mechanical Engineering, Kyungpook National University)
  • Received : 2013.12.15
  • Accepted : 2014.05.23
  • Published : 2014.08.01

Abstract

The redundancy resolution of the seven DOF (Degree of Freedom) upper limb exoskeleton is key to the synchronous motion between a robot and a human user. According to the seven DOF human arm model, positioning and orientating the wrist can be completed by multiple arm configurations that results in the non-unique solution to the inverse kinematics. This paper presents analysis on the kinematic and dynamic aspect of the human arm movement and its effect on the redundancy resolution of the seven DOF human arm model. The redundancy of the arm is expressed mathematically by defining the swivel angle. The final form of swivel angle can be represented as a linear combination of two different swivel angles achieved by optimizing two cost functions based on kinematic and dynamic criteria. The kinematic criterion is to maximize the projection of the longest principal axis of the manipulability ellipsoid of the human arm on the vector connecting the wrist and the virtual target on the head region. The dynamic criterion is to minimize the mechanical work done in the joint space for each of two consecutive points along the task space trajectory. The contribution of each criterion on the redundancy was verified by the post processing of experimental data collected with a motion capture system. Results indicate that the bimodal redundancy resolution approach improved the accuracy of the predicted swivel angle. Statistical testing of the dynamic constraint contribution shows that under moderate speeds and no load, the dynamic component of the human arm is not dominant, and it is enough to resolve the redundancy without dynamic constraint for the realtime application.

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