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Wrapping Haptic Displays Around Robot Arms to Communicate Learning

07/07/2022
by   Antonio Alvarez Valdivia, et al.
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Humans can leverage physical interaction to teach robot arms. As the human kinesthetically guides the robot through demonstrations, the robot learns the desired task. While prior works focus on how the robot learns, it is equally important for the human teacher to understand what their robot is learning. Visual displays can communicate this information; however, we hypothesize that visual feedback alone misses out on the physical connection between the human and robot. In this paper we introduce a novel class of soft haptic displays that wrap around the robot arm, adding signals without affecting interaction. We first design a pneumatic actuation array that remains flexible in mounting. We then develop single and multi-dimensional versions of this wrapped haptic display, and explore human perception of the rendered signals during psychophysic tests and robot learning. We ultimately find that people accurately distinguish single-dimensional feedback with a Weber fraction of 11.4 physically teaching robot arms, humans leverage the single- and multi-dimensional feedback to provide better demonstrations than with visual feedback: our wrapped haptic display decreases teaching time while increasing demonstration quality. This improvement depends on the location and distribution of the wrapped haptic display. You can see videos of our device and experiments here: https://youtu.be/yPcMGeqsjdM

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