TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - Impedance-based Gaussian processes for modeling human motor behavior in physical and non-physical interaction
JO  - IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
A1  - Medina, Jose Ramon
A1  - Borner, Hendrik
A1  - Endo, Satoshi
A1  - Hirche, Sandra
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - OBJECTIVE: Modeling of human motor intention plays an essential role in predictively controlling a robotic system in human-robot interaction tasks. In most machine learning techniques, human motor behavior is modeled as a generic stochastic process. However, the integration of a priori knowledge about underlying system structures can provide insights on otherwise unobservable intrinsic states that yield superior prediction performance and increased generalization capabilities. <br><br>METHODS: We present a novel method for modeling human motor behavior that explicitly includes a neuroscientifically supported model of human motor control, in which the dynamics of the human arm are modeled by a mechanical impedance that tracks a latent desired trajectory. We adopt a Bayesian setting by defining Gaussian process (GP) priors for the impedance elements and the latent desired trajectory. This enables exploitation of a priori human arm impedance knowledge for regression of interaction forces through inference of a latent desired human trajectory. <br><br>RESULTS: The method is validated using simulated data, with particular focus on effects of GP prior parameterization and intention estimation capabilities. Superior prediction performance is shown with respect to a naive GP prior. An experiment with human participants evaluates generalization capabilities and effects of training data sparsity. <br><br>CONCLUSION: We derive the correlations of an impedance-based GP model of human motor behavior that exploits a priori knowledge. SIGNIFICANCE: The model effectively predicts interaction forces by inferring a latent desired human trajectory in previously observed as well as unobserved regions of the input space.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0018-9294
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TBME.2018.2890710
ID  - ref1
ER  -