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ArticleFrontiers in neurorobotics2019

Generating Pointing Motions for a Humanoid Robot by Combining Motor Primitives.

J Camilo Vasquez Tieck, Tristan Schnell, Jacques Kaiser, Felix Mauch, Arne Roennau, Rüdiger Dillmann

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Article in Frontiers in neurorobotics, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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  1. Embodied neuromorphic intelligence.Nature communications · 2022
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J Camilo Vasquez TieckFZI Research Center for Information Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany.
Tristan SchnellFZI Research Center for Information Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany.
Jacques KaiserFZI Research Center for Information Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany.
Felix MauchFZI Research Center for Information Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany.
Arne RoennauFZI Research Center for Information Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany.
Rüdiger DillmannFZI Research Center for Information Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany.

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Abstract

The human motor system is robust, adaptive and very flexible. The underlying principles of human motion provide inspiration for robotics. Pointing at different targets is a common robotics task, where insights about human motion can be applied. Traditionally in robotics, when a motion is generated it has to be validated so that the robot configurations involved are appropriate. The human brain, in contrast, uses the motor cortex to generate new motions reusing and combining existing knowledge before executing the motion. We propose a method to generate and control pointing motions for a robot using a biological inspired architecture implemented with spiking neural networks. We outline a simplified model of the human motor cortex that generates motions using motor primitives. The network learns a base motor primitive for pointing at a target in the center, and four correction primitives to point at targets up, down, left and right from the base primitive, respectively. The primitives are combined to reach different targets. We evaluate the performance of the network with a humanoid robot pointing at different targets marked on a plane. The network was able to combine one, two or three motor primitives at the same time to control the robot in real-time to reach a specific target. We work on extending this work from pointing to a given target to performing a grasping or tool manipulation task. This has many applications for engineering and industry involving real robots.

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closed-loophumanoid robot (HR)motion generationmotor primitivesneuroroboticspointing a targetspiking neural networks (SNN)

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PMID31619981
PMCPMC6759768

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