Abstract
The free energy principle from neuroscience provides a brain-inspired perception scheme through a data-driven model learning algorithm called Dynamic Expectation Maximization (DEM). This paper aims at introducing an exper-imental design to provide the first experimental confirmation of the usefulness of DEM as a state and input estimator for real robots. Through a series of quadcopter flight experiments under unmodelled wind dynamics, we prove that DEM can leverage the information from colored noise for accurate state and input estimation through the use of generalized coordinates. We demonstrate the superior performance of DEM for state es-timation under colored noise with respect to other benchmarks like State Augmentation, SMIKF and Kalman Filtering through its minimal estimation error. We demonstrate the similarities in the performance of DEM and Unknown Input Observer (UIO) for input estimation. The paper concludes by showing the influence of prior beliefs in shaping the accuracy-complexity trade-off during DEM's estimation.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2022 |
Publisher | IEEE |
Pages | 5389-5395 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-7281-9681-7 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2022 |
Event | 39th IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2022 - Philadelphia, United States Duration: 23 May 2022 → 27 May 2022 |
Conference
Conference | 39th IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2022 |
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Country/Territory | United States |
City | Philadelphia |
Period | 23/05/22 → 27/05/22 |
Bibliographical note
Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-careOtherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.
Keywords
- Estimation error
- Neuroscience
- Filtering
- Heuristic algorithms
- Robot kinematics
- Observers
- Benchmark testing