Departmental Papers (MEAM)
Document Type
Conference Paper
Date of this Version
6-2012
Abstract
New robots for teleoperation and autonomous manipulation are increasingly being equipped with high-bandwidth accelerometers for measuring the transient vibrational cues that occur during con- tact with objects. Unfortunately, the robot's own internal mechanisms often generate significant high-frequency accelerations, which we term ego-vibrations. This paper presents an approach to characterizing and removing these signals from acceleration measurements. We adapt the audio processing technique of spectral subtraction over short time windows to remove the noise that is estimated to occur at the robot's present joint velocities. Implementation for the wrist roll and gripper joints on a Willow Garage PR2 robot demonstrates that spectral subtraction significantly increases signal-to-noise ratio, which should improve vibrotactile event detection in both teleoperation and autonomous robotics.
Keywords
haptic feedback for teleoperation, vibrations, tactile accelerations, noise suppression
Date Posted: 21 August 2012
This document has been peer reviewed.
Comments
W. McMahan and K. J. Kuchenbecker. Spectral Subtraction of Robot Motion Noise for Improved Event Detection in Tactile Acceleration Signals. In Proceedings, EuroHaptics, pages 326-337, June 2012. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-31401-8_30
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