Robots are required to autonomously respond to changing situations. Imitation
learning is a promising candidate for achieving generalization performance, and
extensive results have been demonstrated in object manipulation...However,
cooperative work between humans and robots is still a challenging issue because
robots must control dynamic interactions among themselves, humans, and objects. Furthermore, it is difficult to follow subtle perturbations that may occur
among coworkers. In this study, we find that cooperative work can be
accomplished by imitation learning using bilateral control. Thanks to bilateral
control, which can extract response values and command values independently,
human skills to control dynamic interactions can be extracted. Then, the task
of serving food is considered. The experimental results clearly demonstrate the
importance of force control, and the dynamic interactions can be controlled by
the inferred action force.(read more)