| EPSRC Reference: |
EP/P010202/1 |
| Title: |
Soft Robotic Skill Learning from Human Demonstration |
| Principal Investigator: |
Howard, Dr MJW |
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Informatics |
| Organisation: |
Kings College London |
| Scheme: |
First Grant - Revised 2009 |
| Starts: |
01 April 2017 |
Ends: |
31 May 2018 |
Value (£): |
92,197
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| Control Engineering |
Robotics & Autonomy |
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Summary on Grant Application Form |
SoftSkills will look at ways in which ordinary users can program robots way by teaching them how to control their movements and forces through demonstration. It will focus on using redundancy (additional degrees of freedom that are not directly required for a task) and compliance (the extent to which the robot gives way when subjected to external forces) in order to ensure safety and stability while teaching and interacting with robots, by blending behaviours taught to the robot, with specialist engineered controllers internal to the robot. In doing so, it is hoped that this will lead to new knowledge on how humans themselves exploit redundancy and compliance in their own musculoskeletal system, as well as enabling non expert users to program robots intuitively, leading to new applications in areas, such as manufacture, automation in the home and work place, transport, logistics, healthcare and agriculture.
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