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Walking control of humanoid robots based on improved footstep planner and whole-body coordination controller.
IF 2.6 4区 计算机科学 Q3 COMPUTER SCIENCE, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Pub Date : 2025-02-21 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fnbot.2025.1538979
Xiangji Wang, Wei Guo, Siyu Yin, Sen Zhang, Fusheng Zha, Mantian Li, Pengfei Wang, Xiaolin Li, Lining Sun

High-speed walking is fundamental for humanoid robots to quickly reach the work site in emergency scenarios. According to biological studies, the coordinated motion of the arms and waist can significantly enhance walking speed and stability in humans. However, existing humanoid robot walking control frameworks predominantly focus on leg control, often overlooking the utilization of upper body joints. In this paper, a novel walking control framework combining the improved footstep planner and the whole-body coordination controller is proposed, aiming to improve the humanoid robot's tracking accuracy of desired speeds and its dynamic walking capability. First, we analyze the issues in traditional footstep planners based on Linear Inverted Pendulum and Model Predictive Control (LIP-MPC). By reconstructing the footstep optimization problem during walking using the Center-of-Mass (CoM) position, we propose an improved footstep planner to enhance the control accuracy of the desired walking speed in humanoid robots. Next, based on biological research, we define a coordinated control strategy for the arms and waist during walking. Specifically, the waist increases the robot's step length, while the arms counteract disturbance momentum and maintain balance. Based on the aforementioned strategy, we design a whole-body coordination controller for the humanoid robot. This controller adopts a novel hierarchical design approach, in which the dynamics and motion controllers for the upper and lower body are modeled and managed separately. This helps avoid the issue of poor control performance caused by multi-task coupling in traditional whole-body controllers. Finally, we integrate these controllers into a novel walking control framework and validate it on the simulation prototype of the humanoid robot Dexbot. Simulation results show that the proposed framework significantly enhances the maximum walking capability of the humanoid robot, demonstrating its feasibility and effectiveness.

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A survey of decision-making and planning methods for self-driving vehicles.
IF 2.6 4区 计算机科学 Q3 COMPUTER SCIENCE, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Pub Date : 2025-02-18 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fnbot.2025.1451923
Jun Hu, Yuefeng Wang, Shuai Cheng, Jinghan Xu, Ningjia Wang, Bingjie Fu, Zuotao Ning, Jingyao Li, Hualin Chen, Chaolu Feng, Yin Zhang

Autonomous driving technology has garnered significant attention due to its potential to revolutionize transportation through advanced robotic systems. Despite optimistic projections for commercial deployment, the development of sophisticated autonomous driving systems remains largely experimental, with the effectiveness of neurorobotics-based decision-making and planning algorithms being crucial for success. This paper delivers a comprehensive review of decision-making and planning algorithms in autonomous driving, covering both knowledge-driven and data-driven approaches. For knowledge-driven methods, this paper explores independent decision-making systems, including rule based, state transition based, game-theory based methods and independent planing systems including search based, sampling based, and optimization based methods. For data-driven methods, it provides a detailed analysis of machine learning paradigms such as imitation learning, reinforcement learning, and inverse reinforcement learning. Furthermore, the paper discusses hybrid models that amalgamate the strengths of both data-driven and knowledge-driven approaches, offering insights into their implementation and challenges. By evaluating experimental platforms, this paper guides the selection of appropriate testing and validation strategies. Through comparative analysis, this paper elucidates the advantages and disadvantages of each method, facilitating the design of more robust autonomous driving systems. Finally, this paper addresses current challenges and offers a perspective on future developments in this rapidly evolving field.

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Path planning of mobile robot based on improved double deep Q-network algorithm.
IF 2.6 4区 计算机科学 Q3 COMPUTER SCIENCE, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Pub Date : 2025-02-13 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fnbot.2025.1512953
Zhenggang Wang, Shuhong Song, Shenghui Cheng

Aiming at the problems of slow network convergence, poor reward convergence stability, and low path planning efficiency of traditional deep reinforcement learning algorithms, this paper proposes a BiLSTM-D3QN (Bidirectional Long and Short-Term Memory Dueling Double Deep Q-Network) path planning algorithm based on the DDQN (Double Deep Q-Network) decision model. Firstly, a Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory network (BiLSTM) is introduced to make the network have memory, increase the stability of decision making and make the reward converge more stably; secondly, Dueling Network is introduced to further solve the problem of overestimating the Q-value of the neural network, which makes the network able to be updated quickly; Adaptive reprioritization based on the frequency penalty function is proposed. Experience Playback, which extracts important and fresh data from the experience pool to accelerate the convergence of the neural network; finally, an adaptive action selection mechanism is introduced to further optimize the action exploration. Simulation experiments show that the BiLSTM-D3QN path planning algorithm outperforms the traditional Deep Reinforcement Learning algorithm in terms of network convergence speed, planning efficiency, stability of reward convergence, and success rate in simple environments; in complex environments, the path length of BiLSTM-D3QN is 20 m shorter than that of the improved ERDDQN (Experience Replay Double Deep Q-Network) algorithm, the number of turning points is 7 fewer, the planning time is 0.54 s shorter, and the success rate is 10.4% higher. The superiority of the BiLSTM-D3QN algorithm in terms of network convergence speed and path planning performance is demonstrated.

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A conceptual approach to material detection based on damping vibration-force signals via robot.
IF 2.6 4区 计算机科学 Q3 COMPUTER SCIENCE, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Pub Date : 2025-02-11 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fnbot.2025.1503398
Ahmad Saleh Asheghabadi, Mohammad Keymanesh, Saeed Bahrami Moqadam, Jing Xu

Introduction: Object perception, particularly material detection, is predominantly performed through texture recognition, which presents significant limitations. These methods are insufficient to distinguish between different materials with similar surface roughness, and noise caused by tactile movements affects the system performance.

Methods: This paper presents a straightforward, impact-based approach to identifying materials, utilizing the cantilever beam mechanism in the UR5e robot's artificial finger. To detect object material, an elastic metal sheet was fixed to a load cell with an accelerometer and a metal appendage positioned above and below its free end, respectively. After recording the damping force signal and vibration data from the load cell and accelerometer caused by the metal appendage's impact, features such as vibration amplitude, damping time, wavelength, and force amplitude were retrieved. Three machine-learning techniques were then used to classify the objects' materials according to their damping rates. Data clustering was performed using the deflection of the cantilever beam to boost classification accuracy.

Results and discussion: Online object materials detection shows an accuracy of 95.46% in a study of ten objects [metals (steel, cast iron), plastics (foam, compressed plastic), wood, silicon, rubber, leather, brick and cartoon]. This method overcomes the limitations of the tactile approach and has the potential to be used in industrial robots.

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A scalable multi-modal learning fruit detection algorithm for dynamic environments.
IF 2.6 4区 计算机科学 Q3 COMPUTER SCIENCE, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Pub Date : 2025-02-07 eCollection Date: 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fnbot.2024.1518878
Liang Mao, Zihao Guo, Mingzhe Liu, Yue Li, Linlin Wang, Jie Li

Introduction: To enhance the detection of litchi fruits in natural scenes, address challenges such as dense occlusion and small target identification, this paper proposes a novel multimodal target detection method, denoted as YOLOv5-Litchi.

Methods: Initially, the Neck layer network of YOLOv5s is simplified by changing its FPN+PAN structure to an FPN structure and increasing the number of detection heads from 3 to 5. Additionally, the detection heads with resolutions of 80 × 80 pixels and 160 × 160 pixels are replaced by TSCD detection heads to enhance the model's ability to detect small targets. Subsequently, the positioning loss function is replaced with the EIoU loss function, and the confidence loss is substituted by VFLoss to further improve the accuracy of the detection bounding box and reduce the missed detection rate in occluded targets. A sliding slice method is then employed to predict image targets, thereby reducing the miss rate of small targets.

Results: Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed model improves accuracy, recall, and mean average precision (mAP) by 9.5, 0.9, and 12.3 percentage points, respectively, compared to the original YOLOv5s model. When benchmarked against other models such as YOLOx, YOLOv6, and YOLOv8, the proposed model's AP value increases by 4.0, 6.3, and 3.7 percentage points, respectively.

Discussion: The improved network exhibits distinct improvements, primarily focusing on enhancing the recall rate and AP value, thereby reducing the missed detection rate which exhibiting a reduced number of missed targets and a more accurate prediction frame, indicating its suitability for litchi fruit detection. Therefore, this method significantly enhances the detection accuracy of mature litchi fruits and effectively addresses the challenges of dense occlusion and small target detection, providing crucial technical support for subsequent litchi yield estimation.

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Universal slip detection of robotic hand with tactile sensing.
IF 2.6 4区 计算机科学 Q3 COMPUTER SCIENCE, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Pub Date : 2025-02-05 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fnbot.2025.1478758
Chuangri Zhao, Yang Yu, Zeqi Ye, Ziyang Tian, Yifan Zhang, Ling-Li Zeng

Slip detection is to recognize whether an object remains stable during grasping, which can significantly enhance manipulation dexterity. In this study, we explore slip detection for five-finger robotic hands being capable of performing various grasp types, and detect slippage across all five fingers as a whole rather than concentrating on individual fingertips. First, we constructed a dataset collected during the grasping of common objects from daily life across six grasp types, comprising more than 200 k data points. Second, according to the principle of deep double descent, we designed a lightweight universal slip detection convolutional network for different grasp types (USDConvNet-DG) to classify grasp states (no-touch, slipping, and stable grasp). By combining frequency with time domain features, the network achieves a computation time of only 1.26 ms and an average accuracy of over 97% on both the validation and test datasets, demonstrating strong generalization capabilities. Furthermore, we validated the proposed USDConvNet-DG in real-time grasp force adjustment in real-world scenarios, showing that it can effectively improve the stability and reliability of robotic manipulation.

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Construction of multi-robot platform based on dobot robots.
IF 2.6 4区 计算机科学 Q3 COMPUTER SCIENCE, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Pub Date : 2025-02-05 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fnbot.2025.1550787
Jinchi Han, Duojicairang Ma

For the researches of cooperative control scheme for multirobot systems, this paper sets up an experimental platform based on dobot robots, which can be used to perform physical experiments to verify related schemes. A distributed scheme is proposed to achieve cooperative control for multirobot systems. Simulation results prove the effectiveness of the distributed scheme. Then, the experimental platform based on dobot robots is built to verify the proposed scheme. Specifically, a computer sends data to the microcontroller inside the host through WiFi communication, then the host distributes data to the slaves. Finally, the physical experiment of related schemes is performed on the experimental platform. Comparing the simulations with the physical experiments, the task is successfully completed on this experimental platform, which proves the effectiveness of the scheme and the feasibility of the platform. The experimental platform developed in this paper possesses the capability to validate various schemes and exhibits strong expandability and practicality.

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Noise-immune zeroing neural dynamics for dynamic signal source localization system and robotic applications in the presence of noise.
IF 2.6 4区 计算机科学 Q3 COMPUTER SCIENCE, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Pub Date : 2025-02-05 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fnbot.2025.1546731
Yuxin Zhao, Jiahao Wu, Mianjie Zheng

Time angle of arrival (AoA) and time difference of arrival (TDOA) are two widely used methods for solving dynamic signal source localization (DSSL) problems, where the position of a moving target is determined by measuring the angle and time difference of the signal's arrival, respectively. In robotic manipulator applications, accurate and real-time joint information is crucial for tasks such as trajectory tracking and visual servoing. However, signal propagation and acquisition are susceptible to noise interference, which poses challenges for real-time systems. To address this issue, a noise-immune zeroing neural dynamics (NIZND) model is proposed. The NIZND model is a brain-inspired algorithm that incorporates an integral term and an activation function into the traditional zeroing neural dynamics (ZND) model, designed to effectively mitigate noise interference during localization tasks. Theoretical analysis confirms that the proposed NIZND model exhibits global convergence and high precision under noisy conditions. Simulation experiments demonstrate the robustness and effectiveness of the NIZND model in comparison to traditional DSSL-solving schemes and in a trajectory tracking scheme for robotic manipulators. The NIZND model offers a promising solution to the challenge of accurate localization in noisy environments, ensuring both high precision and effective noise suppression. The experimental results highlight its superiority in real-time applications where noise interference is prevalent.

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Critical review on the relationship between design variables and performance of dexterous hands: a quantitative analysis.
IF 2.6 4区 计算机科学 Q3 COMPUTER SCIENCE, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Pub Date : 2025-01-30 eCollection Date: 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fnbot.2024.1513458
Lei Jiang, Chaojie Fu, Yanhong Liang, Yongbin Jin, Hongtao Wang

Dexterous hands play vital roles in tasks performed by humanoid robots. For the first time, we quantify the correlation between design variables and the performance of 65 dexterous hands using Cramér's V. Comprehensive cross-correlation analysis quantitatively reveals how the performance, such as speed, weight, fingertip force, and compactness are related to the design variables including degrees of freedom (DOF), structural form, driving form, and transmission mode. This study shows how various design parameters are coupled inherently, leading to compromise in performance metrics. These findings provide a theoretical basis for the design of dexterous hands in various application scenarios and offer new insights for performance optimization.

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LoCS-Net: Localizing convolutional spiking neural network for fast visual place recognition.
IF 2.6 4区 计算机科学 Q3 COMPUTER SCIENCE, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Pub Date : 2025-01-29 eCollection Date: 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fnbot.2024.1490267
Ugur Akcal, Ivan Georgiev Raikov, Ekaterina Dmitrievna Gribkova, Anwesa Choudhuri, Seung Hyun Kim, Mattia Gazzola, Rhanor Gillette, Ivan Soltesz, Girish Chowdhary

Visual place recognition (VPR) is the ability to recognize locations in a physical environment based only on visual inputs. It is a challenging task due to perceptual aliasing, viewpoint and appearance variations and complexity of dynamic scenes. Despite promising demonstrations, many state-of-the-art (SOTA) VPR approaches based on artificial neural networks (ANNs) suffer from computational inefficiency. However, spiking neural networks (SNNs) implemented on neuromorphic hardware are reported to have remarkable potential for more efficient solutions computationally. Still, training SOTA SNNs for VPR is often intractable on large and diverse datasets, and they typically demonstrate poor real-time operation performance. To address these shortcomings, we developed an end-to-end convolutional SNN model for VPR that leverages backpropagation for tractable training. Rate-based approximations of leaky integrate-and-fire (LIF) neurons are employed during training, which are then replaced with spiking LIF neurons during inference. The proposed method significantly outperforms existing SOTA SNNs on challenging datasets like Nordland and Oxford RobotCar, achieving 78.6% precision at 100% recall on the Nordland dataset (compared to 73.0% from the current SOTA) and 45.7% on the Oxford RobotCar dataset (compared to 20.2% from the current SOTA). Our approach offers a simpler training pipeline while yielding significant improvements in both training and inference times compared to SOTA SNNs for VPR. Hardware-in-the-loop tests using Intel's neuromorphic USB form factor, Kapoho Bay, show that our on-chip spiking models for VPR trained via the ANN-to-SNN conversion strategy continue to outperform their SNN counterparts, despite a slight but noticeable decrease in performance when transitioning from off-chip to on-chip, while offering significant energy efficiency. The results highlight the outstanding rapid prototyping and real-world deployment capabilities of this approach, showing it to be a substantial step toward more prevalent SNN-based real-world robotics solutions.

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