Human-machine shared control:New avenue to dexterous prosthetic hand manipulation

At present,albeit the dexterous hand prostheses of multiple degrees of freedom(DOFs)have become prosperous on the market,the user’s demand on intuitively operating these devices have not been well addressed so that their acceptance rate is relatively low.The unintuitive control method and inadequate sensory feedback are frequently cited as the two barriers to the successful application of these dexterous products.Recently,driven by the wave of artificial intelligence(AI),a series of shared control methods have emerged,in which"bodily function"(myoelectric control)and"artificial intelligence"(local autonomy,computer vision,etc.)are tightly integrated,and provided a new conceptual solution for the intuitive operation of dexterous prostheses.In this paper,the background and development trends of this type of methods are described in detail,and the potential development directions and the key technologies that need breakthroughs are indicated.In practice,we instantiate this shared control strategy by proposing a new method combining simultaneous myoelectric control,multi-finger grasp autonomy,and augmented reality(AR)feedback together.This method"divides"the human sophisticated reach-and-grasp task into several subtasks,and then"conquers"them by using different strategies from either human or machine perspective.It is highly expected that the shared control methods with hybrid human-machine intelligence could address the control problem of dexterous prostheses.

Human-Machine Shared Lateral Control Strategy for Intelligent Vehicles Based on Human Driver Risk Perception Reliability

Intelligent vehicle(Ⅳ)technology has developed rapidly in recent years.However,achieving fully unmanned driving still presents numerous challenges,which means that human drivers will continue to play a vital role in vehicle operation for the foreseeable future.Human-machine shared driving,involving cooperation between a human driver and an automated driving system(AVS),has been widely regarded as a necessary stage for the development of IVs.Focusing onⅣdriving safety,this study proposed a human-machine shared lateral control strategy(HSLCS)based on the reliability of driver risk perception.The HSLCS starts by identifying the effective areas of driver risk perception based on eye movements.It establishes an anisotropic driving risk field,which serves as the foundation for the AVS to assess risk levels.Building upon the cumulative and diminishing effects of risk perception,the proposed approach leverages the driver's risk perception effective area and converts the risk field into a representation aligned with the driver's perspective.Subsequently,it quantifies the reliability of the driver's risk perception by using area-matching rules.Finally,based on the driver’s risk perception reliability and dif-ferences in lateral driving operation between the human driver and the AVS,the dynamic distribution of driving authority is achieved through a fuzzy rule-based system,and the human-machine shared lateral control is completed by using model predictive control.The HSLCS was tested across various scenarios on a driver-in-the-loop test platform.The results show that the HSLCS can realize the synergy and complementarity of human and machine intelligence,effectively ensuring the safety ofⅣoperation.

Decision-Making in Driver-Automation Shared Control:A Review and Perspectives

Shared control schemes allow a human driver to work with an automated driving agent in driver-vehicle systems while retaining the driver’s abilities to control.The human driver,as an essential agent in the driver-vehicle shared control systems,should be precisely modeled regarding their cognitive processes,control strategies,and decision-making processes.The interactive strategy design between drivers and automated driving agents brings an excellent challenge for human-centric driver assistance systems due to the inherent characteristics of humans.Many open-ended questions arise,such as what proper role of human drivers should act in a shared control scheme?How to make an intelligent decision capable of balancing the benefits of agents in shared control systems?Due to the advent of these attentions and questions,it is desirable to present a survey on the decision making between human drivers and highly automated vehicles,to understand their architectures,human driver modeling,and interaction strategies under the driver-vehicle shared schemes.Finally,we give a further discussion on the key future challenges and opportunities.They are likely to shape new potential research directions.

Shared Control of Highly Automated Vehicles Using Steer-By-Wire Systems

A shared control of highly automated Steer-by-Wire system is proposed for cooperative driving between the driver and vehicle in the face of driver's abnormal driving. A fault detection scheme is designed to detect the abnormal driving behaviour and transfer the control of the car to the automatic system designed based on a fault tolerant model predictive control(MPC) controller driving the vehicle along an optimal safe path.The proposed concept and control algorithm are tested in a number of scenarios representing intersection, lane change and different types of driver's abnormal behaviour. The simulation results show the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed method.

The Indirect Shared Steering Control Under Double Loop Structure of Driver and Automation

Due to the critical defects of techniques in fully autonomous vehicles,man-machine cooperative driving is still of great significance in today’s transportation system.Unlike the previous shared control structure,this paper introduces a double loop structure which is applied to indirect shared steering control between driver and automation.In contrast to the tandem indirect shared control,the parallel indirect shared control put the authority allocation system of steering angle into the framework to allocate the corresponding weighting coefficients reasonably and output the final desired steering angle according to the current deviation of vehicle and the accuracy of steering angles.Besides,the active disturbance rejection controller(ADRC)is also added in the frame in order to track the desired steering angle fleetly and accurately as well as restrain the internal and external disturbances effectively which including the steering friction torque,wind speed and ground interference etc.Eventually,we validated the advantages of double loop framework through three sets of double lane change and slalom experiments,respectively.Exactly as we expected,the simulation results show that the double loop structure can effectively reduce the lateral displacement error caused by the driver or the controller,significantly improve the tracking precision and keep great performance in trajectory tracking characteristics when driving errors occur in one of driver and controller.

A Type-2 Fuzzy Approach to Driver-Automation Shared Driving Lane Keeping Control of Semi-Autonomous Vehicles Under Imprecise Premise Variable

The driver-automation shared driving is a transition to fully-autonomous driving,in which human driver and vehicular controller cooperatively share the control authority.This paper investigates the shared steering control of semi-autonomous vehicles with uncertainty from imprecise parameter.By considering driver’s lane-keeping behavior on the vehicle system,a driver-automation shared driving model is introduced for control purpose.Based on the interval type-2(IT2)fuzzy theory,moreover,the driver-automation shared driving model with uncertainty from imprecise parameter is described using an IT2 fuzzy model.After that,the corresponding IT2 fuzzy controller is designed and a direct Lyapunov method is applied to analyze the system stability.In this work,sufficient design conditions in terms of linear matrix inequalities are derived,to guarantee the closed-loop stability of the driver-automation shared control system.In addition,an H∞performance is studied to ensure the robustness of control system.Finally,simulation-based results are provided to demonstrate the performance of proposed control method.Furthermore,an existing type-1 fuzzy controller is introduced as comparison to verify the superiority of the proposed IT2 fuzzy controller.

Adaptive Consistent Management to Prevent System Collapse on Shared Object Manipulation in Mixed Reality

A concurrency control mechanism for collaborative work is akey element in a mixed reality environment. However, conventional lockingmechanisms restrict potential tasks or the support of non-owners, thusincreasing the working time because of waiting to avoid conflicts. Herein, wepropose an adaptive concurrency control approach that can reduce conflictsand work time. We classify shared object manipulation in mixed reality intodetailed goals and tasks. Then, we model the relationships among goal,task, and ownership. As the collaborative work progresses, the proposedsystem adapts the different concurrency control mechanisms of shared objectmanipulation according to the modeling of goal–task–ownership. With theproposed concurrency control scheme, users can hold shared objects andmove and rotate together in a mixed reality environment similar to realindustrial sites. Additionally, this system provides MS Hololens and Myosensors to recognize inputs from a user and provides results in a mixed realityenvironment. The proposed method is applied to install an air conditioneras a case study. Experimental results and user studies show that, comparedwith the conventional approach, the proposed method reduced the number ofconflicts, waiting time, and total working time.

Cross-Domain Bilateral Access Control on Blockchain-Cloud Based Data Trading System

Data trading enables data owners and data requesters to sell and purchase data.With the emergence of blockchain technology,research on blockchain-based data trading systems is receiving a lot of attention.Particularly,to reduce the on-chain storage cost,a novel paradigm of blockchain and cloud fusion has been widely considered as a promising data trading platform.Moreover,the fact that data can be used for commercial purposes will encourage users and organizations from various fields to participate in the data marketplace.In the data marketplace,it is a challenge how to trade the data securely outsourced to the external cloud in a way that restricts access to the data only to authorized users across multiple domains.In this paper,we propose a cross-domain bilateral access control protocol for blockchain-cloud based data trading systems.We consider a system model that consists of domain authorities,data senders,data receivers,a blockchain layer,and a cloud provider.The proposed protocol enables access control and source identification of the outsourced data by leveraging identity-based cryptographic techniques.In the proposed protocol,the outsourced data of the sender is encrypted under the target receiver’s identity,and the cloud provider performs policy-match verification on the authorization tags of the sender and receiver generated by the identity-based signature scheme.Therefore,data trading can be achieved only if the identities of the data sender and receiver simultaneously meet the policies specified by each other.To demonstrate efficiency,we evaluate the performance of the proposed protocol and compare it with existing studies.

Regional Multi-Agent Cooperative Reinforcement Learning for City-Level Traffic Grid Signal Control

This article studies the effective traffic signal control problem of multiple intersections in a city-level traffic system.A novel regional multi-agent cooperative reinforcement learning algorithm called RegionSTLight is proposed to improve the traffic efficiency.Firstly a regional multi-agent Q-learning framework is proposed,which can equivalently decompose the global Q value of the traffic system into the local values of several regions Based on the framework and the idea of human-machine cooperation,a dynamic zoning method is designed to divide the traffic network into several strong-coupled regions according to realtime traffic flow densities.In order to achieve better cooperation inside each region,a lightweight spatio-temporal fusion feature extraction network is designed.The experiments in synthetic real-world and city-level scenarios show that the proposed RegionS TLight converges more quickly,is more stable,and obtains better asymptotic performance compared to state-of-theart models.

M/S Controller Area Network(CAN) System Using Shared-Clock Scheduler

The Controller Area Network (CAN) is a well established control network for automotive and automation control applications. Time-Triggered Controller Area Network (TTCAN) is a recent development which introduces a session layer,for message scheduling,to the existing CAN standard,which is a two layer standard comprising of a physical layer and a data link layer. TTCAN facilitates network communication in a time-triggered fashion,by introducing a Time Division Multiple Access style communication scheme. This allows deterministic network behavior,where maximum message latency times can be quantified and guaranteed. In order to solve the problem of determinate time latency and synchronization among several districted units in one auto panel CAN systems,this paper proposed a prototype design implementation for a shared-clock scheduler based on PIC18F458 MCU. This leads to improved CAN system performance and avoid the latency jitters and guarantee a deterministic communication pattern on the bus. The real runtime performance is satisfied.

SHARED CONTROL METHOD FOR COMBINATION STATE CONVERSION OF ELECTRO－MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT

The theory of shared control combines organically the control of every controlled ele-ments and with it all the controlled elements share the same control element. Applying theschemes of shared control searched by assembly programs, an integrated control of all the ele-ments is fulfilled. The distinguishing point of the method is that the maximum control output canbe obtained with the least input information. Hence it is the optimum for the conversion of com-bination states. Finally, a thared rotary valve is designed, and it is the simplest with only onegroup of control holes.

Framework and Key Technologies of Human-machine Hybrid-augmented Intelligence System for Large-scale Power Grid Dispatching and Control

With integration of large-scale renewable energy,new controllable devices,and required reinforcement of power grids,modern power systems have typical characteristics such as uncertainty,vulnerability and openness,which makes operation and control of power grids face severe security challenges.Application of artificial intelligence(AI)technologies represented by machine learning in power grid regulation is limited by reliability,interpretability and generalization ability of complex modeling.Mode of hybrid-augmented intelligence(HAI)based on human-machine collaboration(HMC)is a pivotal direction for future development of AI technology in this field.Based on characteristics of applications in power grid regulation,this paper discusses system architecture and key technologies of human-machine hybrid-augmented intelligence(HHI)system for large-scale power grid dispatching and control(PGDC).First,theory and application scenarios of HHI are introduced and analyzed;then physical and functional architectures of HHI system and human-machine collaborative regulation process are proposed.Key technologies are discussed to achieve a thorough integration of human/machine intelligence.Finally,state-of-theart and future development of HHI in power grid regulation are summarized,aiming to efficiently improve the intelligent level of power grid regulation in a human-machine interactive and collaborative way.

Adaptive active inceptor design under shared control architecture for nonlinear pilot-induced oscillations

This paper presents a Shared Control Architecture(SCA)between a human pilot and a smart inceptor for nonlinear Pilot Induced Oscillations(PIOs),e.g.,category II or III PIOs.One innovation of this paper is that an intelligent shared control architecture is developed based on the intelligent active inceptor technique,i.e.,Smart Adaptive Flight Effective Cue(SAFE-Cue).A deep reinforcement learning approach namely Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient(DDPG)method is chosen to design a gain adaptation mechanism for the SAFE-Cue module.By doing this,the gains of the SAFE-Cue will be intelligently tuned once nonlinear PIOs triggered;meanwhile,the human pilot will receive a force cue from the SAFE-Cue,and will consequently adapting his/her control policy.The second innovation of this paper is that the reward function of the DDPG based gain adaptation approach is constructed according to flying qualities.Under the premise of considering failure situation,task completion qualities and pilot workload are also taken into account.Finally,the proposed approach is validated using numerical simulation experiments with two types of scenarios:lower actuator rate limits and airframe damages.The Inceptor Peak Power-Phase(IPPP)metric is adopted to analyze the human-vehicle system simulation results.Results and analysis show that the DDPG based sharing control approach can well address nonlinear PIO problems consisting of Categories Ⅱ and Ⅲ PIO events.

An Adaptive Wireless Power Sharing Control for Multiterminal HVDC

Power sharing among multiterminal high voltage direct current terminals(MT-HVDC)is mainly developed based on a priority or sequential manners,which uses to prevent the problem of overloading due to a predefined controller coefficient.Furthermore,fixed power sharing control also suffers from an inability to identify power availability at a rectification station.There is a need for a controller that ensures an efficient power sharing among the MT-HVDC terminals,prevents the possibility of overloading,and utilizes the available power sharing.A new adaptive wireless control for active power sharing among multiterminal(MT-HVDC)systems,including power availability and power management policy,is proposed in this paper.The proposed control strategy solves these issues and,this proposed controller strategy is a generic method that can be applied for unlimited number of converter stations.The rational of this proposed controller is to increase the system reliability by avoiding the necessity of fast communication links.The test system in this paper consists of four converter stations based on three phase-two AC voltage levels.The proposed control strategy for a multiterminal HVDC system is conducted in the power systems computer aided design/electromagnetic transient design and control(PSCAD/EMTDC)simulation environment.The simulation results significantly show the flexibility and usefulness of the proposed power sharing control provided by the new adaptive wireless method.

可撤销属性加密的区块链数据访问控制方法

针对区块链数据共享中存在的粗粒度访问控制问题,提出一种基于属性撤销密文策略属性基加密的区块链数据访问控制方法。在现有方案基础上进行改造,引入预解密过程,结合属性撤销列表实现属性实时撤销;基于非对称群下的DBDH困难问题假设进行安全性证明;基于超级账本Fabric进行系统设计,结合星际文件系统采用链上链下存储方式解决区块链容量不足和系统效率问题。实验结果表明,所提方案撤销属性时无需更新密钥密文重复上链,仅需要6次Pairing操作进行预解密和解密,且在大规模属性集下,预解密时间和解密时间平均保持在百毫秒左右的常量级上,实现区块链数据高效、细粒度的访问控制。

船舶远程驾驶人机主从博弈控制方法研究

针对船舶远程驾驶场景下的人机目标非一致性问题,本文设计了系统人主机辅的运行模式,提出一种主从博弈框架下的共享控制方法,将船舶协同避碰转向任务中的人机交互作用描述为完全信息条件下的非合作博弈关系,通过构造驾驶员和共驾控制器的状态空间推导主从博弈的Stackelberg微分对策,使用Fan-GFlicksberg不动点定理证明纳什均衡解的存在性与唯一性。根据驾驶风格和操纵技能预分配驾驶权重,基于模型预测控制方法设计轨迹跟踪器,采取反馈校正方式在有限时域内滚动优化,综合考虑船舶安全航行边界、碰撞风险和人机冲突程度在线进行调节。选取船舶横向偏移误差和驾驶员操作负荷等评价指标,在内河操纵环境下验证了方法的有效性。仿真结果表明:本文所提出的主从博弈控制方法能够为具备不同驾驶风格和操纵技能的作业人员提供个性化辅助,当驾驶员和共驾控制器发生意图冲突时,根据航行风险对预分配权重进行调节,在确保航行安全的前提下使船舶尽可能满足驾驶员的操纵意图。

企业ESG表现提升劳动收入份额实证研究——基于中国上市公司的经验证据

基于中国上市公司大样本数据检验证实:企业ESG表现提升劳动收入份额源自多种因素的共同作用。笔者依据相关公司治理理论,以2009—2021年中国沪深A股非金融类上市公司的样本有效数据,运用多元线性回归方法实证检验了企业ESG表现与劳动收入份额之间的关系及其变化。检验结果证实:企业ESG表现与劳动收入份额正相关;资金支持、内部控制水平、技术升级中介企业ESG表现与劳动收入份额的相关性;以劳动密集程度和技术密集程度为代表的要素密集程度正向调节企业ESG表现对劳动收入份额的提升,而企业规模和劳动调整成本则发挥反向调节作用。本研究通过将公司内部治理和公司外部性等相关理论原理尝试性地运用于企业ESG表现与劳动收入份额关系的实证研究,从一系列检验诸多相关要素的有机联系上证实了企业ESG表现显著提升劳动收入份额,丰富了关于可持续发展研究领域的现有文献,研究结论有助于为企业以改善ESG表现方式实现高质量发展提供理论依据。

基于全频谱共享的三维轨迹和功率优化方法

当前蜂窝系统频谱资源极度短缺,免授权频谱因而被建议在蜂窝系统中使用。无人机(UAV)的飞行轨迹和功率控制对频谱利用效率有重大影响。然而,基于频谱共享的3维轨迹和功率优化方法却鲜少研究。为此,该文首先提出一种全频谱共享方法,即无人机通过控制上行蜂窝用户和设备到设备(D2D)用户的发射功率,在不影响WiFi设备正常传输的前提下使用免授权频谱;同时无人机也能够在不影响其他下行蜂窝用户的前提下使用授权频谱。然后基于提出的全频谱共享方法,该文构建了无人机电池能量约束下的3维飞行轨迹和发射功率的联合优化问题。为了求解提出的复杂多变量耦合的非凸优化问题,该文采用块坐标下降和连续凸逼近方法将原问题转化为3维轨迹优化和功率控制两个凸优化子问题并迭代求解。大量仿真结果证明提出的基于3维轨迹和功率优化的全频谱共享方法能够显著提高频谱利用效率。

一种全生命周期可控的公共数据共享方案

公共数据作为数据要素将极大赋能政府公共服务和社会治理,然而,频繁爆发的数据泄露事件严重阻碍了公共数据共享的进程。虽然现有的属性基加密方案能够实现公共数据的安全访问,但存在授权管理低效、共享后难以管控等问题,不适合现有的公共数据共享模式。为此,文章提出了一种全生命周期可控的公共数据共享方案。该方案设计了一种数据胶囊封装方法,将共享的公共数据与访问授权策略进行深度绑定,并构建了共享数据多方参与的分层授权、全生命周期感知的访问管控方式。安全性分析以及实验仿真表明,该方案实现了公共数据共享的全生命周期可控,开销较小,符合现实需求。

自适应下垂系数的孤岛微电网无功均分策略

在孤岛微电网中,由于线路阻抗的不匹配,常常导致传统的下垂控制无法完成分布式电源(DG)之间无功功率的均分.为了消除DG之间的无功不均分,首先分析了传统下垂控制无法完成无功均分的原因,设计了可自适应调节的无功下垂系数,使无功下垂系数可以满足无功均分的条件,从而解决无功功率无法均分的问题.为了使无功均分控制器具有更高的灵活性和可靠性,设计了动态分布式观测器,并证明了其收敛性.动态分布式观测器可以使DG以分布式的方式更加灵活可靠地获取所需的信息.通过4个不同的算例对所提的控制策略进行验证,仿真结果验证了所提控制策略的优越性和有效性.