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Reinforcement learning of clothing assistance with a dual-arm robot

Tamei, Tomoya, Matsubara, Takamitsu, Rai, Akshara, Shibata, Tomohiro·2011·2011 11th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots

Abstract

This study aims at robotic clothing assistance as it is yet an open field for robotics despite it is one of the basic and important assistance activities in daily life of elderly as well as disabled people. The clothing assistance is a challenging problem since robots must interact with non-rigid clothes generally represented in a high-dimensional space, and with the assisted person whose posture can vary during the assistance. Thus, the robot is required to manage two difficulties to perform the task of the clothing assistance: 1) handling of non-rigid materials and 2) adaptation of the assisting movements to the assisted person's posture. To overcome these difficulties, we propose to use reinforcement learning with the cloth's state which is low-dimensionally represented in topology coordinates, and with the reward defined in the low-dimensional coordinates. With our developed experimental system, for T-shirt clothing assistance, including an anthropomorphic dual-arm robot and a soft mannequin, we demonstrate the robot quickly learns a suitable arm motion for putting the mannequin's head into a T-shirt.

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Authors
Tamei, T., Matsubara, T., Rai, A., & Shibata, T.
Affiliations
  • Nara Institute of Science and Technology (JP)
  • Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IN)
Venue
2011 11th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2011-10
Pages
733-738
OpenAlex
W1989564233
Cited by
103
References
7
Citations by year
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FWCI
5.35
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids) (publishedVersion)
Funders
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Control and Systems Engineering › Robot Manipulation and Learning
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Reinforcement Learning in Robotics
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics
Keywords
dual-arm robot, reinforcement learning, humanoid robots

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