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Control of human upper limb by electrical stimulation for accurate motion with external mechanical assistance of high bandwidth: basic mechanism and modeling

Research Project

Project/Area Number 20K19843
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Review Section Basic Section 61020:Human interface and interaction-related
Research InstitutionThe University of Tokyo

Principal Investigator

Huang Shouren  東京大学, 情報基盤センター, 特任講師 (20750029)

Project Period (FY) 2020-04-01 – 2023-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2022)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,030,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥930,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥2,340,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥540,000)
Keywordshuman-robot interaction / mechanical assistance / high-speed vision / electrical stimulation / bimanual coordination / high-bandwidth / interaction mechanism / neural network modeling
Outline of Research at the Start

This research firstly intends to investigate the interaction mechanism between human neuromuscular-skeletal system under multimodal perception and external mechanical assistance with great bandwidth gap. Secondly, developing neural networks models to generate electrical stimulation for control of human upper limb to realize collaborative motion with external mechanical assistance.

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The following aspects were achieved by this study. Firstly, electrical stimulation devices that can generate two channels of programmable electrical pulses with a max frequency of 1000Hz was developed. Closed-loop visual feedback control of human upper limb by the developed electrical stimulation from a range of 10Hz - 1000Hz was realized. Secondly, we developed the human-machine interaction system utilizing human visual and force feedback modalities and conducted the primary experimental studies on the interaction between human and external mechanical assistance of bandwidth in terms of bimanual coordination. As an early-stage study, we investigated and verified the possibility of human-machine interaction for accurate manipulation under human visual and force feedback utilizing the bimanual synchronous mechanism.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

We developed the very first systems to incorporate high-bandwidth mechanical assistance into control of human upper limbs, and laid the foundation for future studies on human upper limb control by electrical stimulation and by bimanual coordination under high-bandwidth mechanical assistance.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2022 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2021 Research-status Report
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (4 results)

All 2022 2021 Other

All Presentation (3 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results) Remarks (1 results)

  • [Presentation] Bimanual Coordination Protocol for the Inter-Limb Transmission of Force Feedback2022

    • Author(s)
      Shouren Huang, Yongpeng Cao, Kenichi Murakami ,Masatoshi Ishikawa,Yuji Yamakawa
    • Organizer
      第40回日本ロボット学会学術講演会 (RSJ2022)
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 上腕の一自由度回転運動に向けた高周波電気刺激フィードバック制御システムの構築2021

    • Author(s)
      上野永遠,黄守仁,石川正俊
    • Organizer
      第39回日本ロボット学会学術講演会(RSJ2021)
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Human-Robot Collaboration with Force Feedback Utilizing Bimanual Coordination2021

    • Author(s)
      Shouren Huang, Keisuke Koyama, Masatoshi Ishikawa, and Yuji Yamakawa
    • Organizer
      2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Remarks]

    • URL

      http://ishikawa-vision.org/fusion/BimanualCoord/index-e.html

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report

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Published: 2020-04-28   Modified: 2024-01-30  

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