Abstract:

This paper presents a method of controlling robot manipulators with fuzzy voice commands. Recently, there has been some research on controlling robots using information-rich fuzzy voice commands such as 'go little slowly' and learning from such commands. However, the scope of all those works was limited to basic fuzzy voice motion commands. In this paper, we introduce a method of controlling the posture of a manipulator using complex fuzzy voice commands. A complex fuzzy voice command is composed of a set of fuzzy voice joint commands. Complex fuzzy voice commands can be used for complicated maneuvering of a manipulator, while fuzzy voice joint commands affect only a single joint. Once joint commands are learned, any complex command can be learned as a combination of some or all of them, so that, using the learned complex commands, a human user can control the manipulator in a complicated manner with natural language commands. Learning of complex commands is discussed in the framework of fuzzy coach-player model. The proposed idea is demonstrated with a PA-10 redundant manipulator.

Keywords: FUZZY COACH-PLAYER SYSTEM; SUB-COACH; VOICE COMMANDS; HUMAN-FRIENDLY ROBOTS; POSTURE CONTROL

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1163/156855307780131983

Affiliations: 1: Department of Advanced Systems Control Engineering, Saga University, Japan