Goal Estimation-based Adaptive Shared Control for Brain-Machine Interfaces Remote Robot Navigation

Tomoka Muraoka, Tatsuya Aoki, Masayuki Hirata, Tadahiro Taniguchi, Takato Horii, Takayuki Nagai

Abstract: In this study, we propose a shared control method for teleoperated mobile robots using brain-machine interfaces (BMI). The control commands generated through BMI for robot operation face issues of low input frequency, discreteness, and uncertainty due to noise. To address these challenges, our method estimates the user's intended goal from their commands and uses this goal to generate auxiliary commands through the autonomous system that are both at a higher input frequency and more continuous. Furthermore, by defining the confidence level of the estimation, we adaptively calculated the weights for combining user and autonomous commands, thus achieving shared control.