Adaptive Optimal Control for Redundantly Actuated Arms
Djordje Mitrovic1
, Stefan Klanke1
and Sethu Vijayakumar1 
| (1) |
Institute of Perception, Action & Behavior, University of Edinburgh, The King’s Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, United Kingdom |
Abstract
Optimal feedback control has been proposed as an attractive movement generation strategy in goal reaching tasks for anthropomorphic
manipulator systems. Recent developments, such as the iterative Linear Quadratic Gaussian (iLQG) algorithm, have focused on
the case of non-linear, but still analytically available, dynamics. For realistic control systems, however, the dynamics may
often be unknown, difficult to estimate, or subject to frequent systematic changes. In this paper, we combine the iLQG framework
with learning the forward dynamics for a simulated arm with two limbs and six antagonistic muscles, and we demonstrate how
our approach can compensate for complex dynamic perturbations in an online fashion.
Keywords Adaptive optimal control - learning dynamics - redundant actuation
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