Multimodal Contact Detection using Auditory and Force Features for Reliable Object Placing in Household Environments

12/02/2020
by   Jaime Maldonado, et al.
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Typical contact detection is based on the monitoring of a threshold value in the force and torque signals. The selection of a threshold is challenging for robots operating in unstructured or highly dynamic environments, such in a household setting, due to the variability of the characteristics of the objects that might be encountered. We propose a multimodal contact detection approach using time and frequency domain features which model the distinctive characteristics of contact events in the auditory and haptic modalities. In our approach the monitoring of force and torque thresholds is not necessary as detection is based on the characteristics of force and torque signals in the frequency domain together with the impact sound generated by the manipulation task. We evaluated our approach with a typical glass placing task in a household setting. Our experimental results show that robust contact detection (99.94 threshold values and suitable of being implemented for operation in highly dynamic scenarios.

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