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ItemCorrect Software Synthesis for Stable Speed-Controlled Robotic Walking(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013-06) Dantam, Neil ; Hereid, Ayonga ; Ames, Aaron ; Stilman, MikeWe present a software synthesis method for speed- controlled robot walking based on supervisory control of a context-free Motion Grammar. First, we use Human-Inspired control to identify parameters for fixed speed walking and for transitions between fixed speeds, guaranteeing dynamic stability. Next, we build a Motion Grammar representing the discrete- time control for this set of speeds. Then, we synthesize C code from this grammar and generate supervisors¹ online to achieve desired walking speeds, guaranteeing correctness of discrete computation. Finally, we demonstrate this approach on the Aldebaran NAO, showing stable walking transitions with dynamically selected speeds.
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ItemMulti-Process Control Software for HUBO2 Plus Robot(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013-04) Grey, M .X. ; Dantam, Neil ; Lofaro, Daniel M. ; Bobick, Aaron F. ; Egerstedt, Magnus B. ; Oh, Paul ; Stilman, MikeHumanoid robots require greater software reliability than traditional mechantronic systems if they are to perform useful tasks in typical human-oriented environments. This paper covers a software architecture which distributes the load of computation and control tasks over multiple processes, enabling fail-safes within the software. These fail-safes ensure that unexpected crashes or latency do not produce damaging behavior in the robot. The distribution also offers benefits for future software development by making the architecture modular and extensible. Utilizing a low-latency inter-process communication protocol (Ach), processes are able to communicate with high control frequencies. The key motivation of this software architecture is to provide a practical framework for safe and reliable humanoid robot software development. The authors test and verify this framework on a HUBO2 Plus humanoid robot.
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ItemRobust and Efficient Communication for Real-Time Multi-Process Robot Software(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012-11) Dantam, Neil ; Stilman, MikeWe present a new Interprocess Communication (IPC) mechanism and library. Ach is uniquely suited for coordinating drivers, controllers, and algorithms in complex robotic systems such as humanoid robots. Ach eliminates the Head-of-Line Blocking problem for applications that always require access to the newest message. Ach is efficient, robust, and formally verified. It has been tested and demonstrated on a variety of physical robotic systems, and we discuss the implementation on our humanoid robot Golem Krang. Finally, the source code for Ach is available under an Open Source permissive license.
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ItemLinguistic Transfer of Human Assembly Tasks to Robots(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012-10) Dantam, Neil ; Essa, Irfan ; Stilman, MikeWe demonstrate the automatic transfer of an assembly task from human to robot. This work extends efforts showing the utility of linguistic models in verifiable robot control policies by now performing real visual analysis of human demonstrations to automatically extract a policy for the task. This method tokenizes each human demonstration into a sequence of object connection symbols, then transforms the set of sequences from all demonstrations into an automaton, which represents the task-language for assembling a desired object. Finally, we combine this assembly automaton with a kinematic model of a robot arm to reproduce the demonstrated task.
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ItemThe Motion Grammar Calculus for Context-Free Hybrid Systems(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012-06) Dantam, Neil ; Stilman, MikeThis paper provides a method for deriving provably correct controllers for Hybrid Dynamical Systems with Context-Free discrete dynamics, nonlinear continuous dynamics, and nonlinear state partitioning. The proposed method models the system using a Context-Free Motion Grammar and specifies correct performance using a Regular language representation such as Linear Temporal Logic. The initial model is progressively rewritten via a calculus of symbolic transformation rules until it satisfies the desired specification.
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ItemLinguistic Composition of Semantic Maps and Hybrid Controllers(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012-06) Dantam, Neil ; Nieto-Granda, Carlos ; Christensen, Henrik I. ; Stilman, MikeThis work combines semantic maps with hybrid control models, generating a direct link between action and environment models to produce a control policy for mobile manipulation in unstructured environments. First, we generate a semantic map for our environment and design a base model of robot action. Then, we combine this map and action model using the Motion Grammar Calculus to produce a combined robot-environment model. Using this combined model, we apply supervisory control to produce a policy for the manipulation task. We demonstrate this approach on a Segway RMP-200 mobile platform.
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ItemThe Motion Grammar: Linguistic Perception, Planning, and Control(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-06) Dantam, Neil ; Stilman, MikeWe present and analyze the Motion Grammar: a novel unified representation for task decomposition, perception, planning, and control that provides both fast online control of robots in uncertain environments and the ability to guarantee completeness and correctness. The grammar represents a policy for the task which is parsed in real-time based on perceptual input. Branches of the syntax tree form the levels of a hierarchical decomposition, and the individual robot sensor readings are given by tokens. We implement this approach in the interactive game of Yamakuzushi on a physical robot resulting in a system that repeatably competes with a human opponent in sustained gameplay for the roughly six minute duration of each match.
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ItemDynamic Pushing Strategies for Dynamically Stable Mobile Manipulators(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010-05) Kolhe, Pushkar ; Dantam, Neil ; Stilman, MikeThis paper presents three effective manipulation strategies for wheeled, dynamically balancing robots with articulated links. By comparing these strategies through analysis, simulation and robot experiments, we show that contact placement and body posture have a significant impact on the robot's ability to accelerate and displace environment objects. Given object geometry and friction parameters we determine the most effective methods for utilizing wheel torque to perform non-prehensile manipulation.