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Human-Likeness Indicator for Robot Posture Control and Balance

Robotics 2022-10-28 v1

Abstract

Similarly to humans, humanoid robots require posture control and balance to walk and interact with the environment. In this work posture control in perturbed conditions is evaluated as a performance test for humanoid control. A specific performance indicator is proposed: the score is based on the comparison between the body sway of the tested humanoid standing on a moving surface and the sway produced by healthy subjects performing the same experiment. This approach is here oriented to the evaluation of a human-likeness. The measure is tested using a humanoid robot in order to demonstrate a typical usage of the proposed evaluation scheme and an example of how to improve robot control on the basis of such a performance indicator score

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@article{arxiv.2210.15478,
  title  = {Human-Likeness Indicator for Robot Posture Control and Balance},
  author = {Vittorio Lippi and Christoph Maurer and Thomas Mergner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.15478},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

16 pages, 5 Figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2110.14395

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