Summary: We present an evaluation of different techniques for the estimation of forces and torques measured by a single six-axis force/torque sensor placed along the kinematic chain of a humanoid robot arm. In order to retrieve the external forces and detect possible contact situations, the internal forces must be estimated. The prediction performance of an analytically derived dynamic model as well as two supervised machine learning techniques, namely Least Squares Support Vector Machines and Neural Networks, are investigated on this problem. The performance are evaluated on the normalized mean square error (NMSE) and the comparison is made with respect to the dimension of the training set, the information contained in the input space and, finally, using a Euclidean subsampling strategy.
For the entire collection see [Zbl 1185.68745].