Intention recognition by inverted two-wheeled mobile robot through interactive operation

Recently, two-wheeled inverted pendulum mobile robots have been popular. They support human locomotion and/or small goods transportation based on inverted pendulum upright controllers. The conventional inverted pendulum mobile robot controls to follow the fixed desired posture angle and wheel velocity. It is desirable to change the control parameters according to the user intention in order to offer comfortable operability of the robot. This paper proposes a user intention recognition system for a inverted pendulum mobile robot and shows experimental results.