Solving Robotic Trajectory Sequential Writing Problem via Learning Character’s Structural and Sequential Information

Li, Quanfeng, Guo, Zhihua, Chao, Fei, Chang, Xiang, Yang, Longzhi, Lin, Chih-Min, Shang, Changjing and Shen, Qiang (2022) Solving Robotic Trajectory Sequential Writing Problem via Learning Character’s Structural and Sequential Information. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. pp. 1-13. ISSN 2168-2267 (In Press)

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1109/TCYB.2022.3194700

Abstract

The writing sequence of numerals or letters often affects aesthetic aspects of the writing outcomes. As such, it remains a challenge for robotic calligraphy systems to perform, mimicking human writers’ implicit intention. This article presents a new robot calligraphy system that is able to learn writing sequences with limited sequential information, producing writing results compatible to human writers with good diversity. In particular, the system innovatively applies a gated recurrent unit (GRU) network to generate robotic writing actions with the support of a prelabeled trajectory sequence vector. Also, a new evaluation method is proposed that considers the shape, trajectory sequence, and structural information of the writing outcome, thereby helping ensure the writing quality. A swarm optimization algorithm is exploited to create an optimal set of parameters of the proposed system. The proposed approach is evaluated using Arabic numerals, and the experimental results demonstrate the competitive writing performance of the system against state-of-the-art approaches regarding multiple criteria (including FID, MAE, PSNR, SSIM, and PerLoss), as well as diversity performance concerning variance and entropy. Importantly, the proposed GRU-based robotic motion planning system, supported with swarm optimization can learn from a small dataset, while producing calligraphy writing with diverse and aesthetically pleasing outcomes.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: Feature extraction, Gated recurrent unit (GRU) network, Logic gates, Particle swarm optimization, robotic calligraphy, robotic motion planning, Robots, Training, Trajectory, Writing
Uncontrolled Keywords: Funding information: This work was supported in part by the Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province of China (2021J01002) and Strategic Partner Acceleration Award (80761-AU201), funded under the Ser Cymru II programme, UK.
Subjects: G400 Computer Science
G500 Information Systems
Department: Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Computer and Information Sciences
Depositing User: Elena Carlaw
Date Deposited: 06 Oct 2022 15:14
Last Modified: 06 Oct 2022 15:15
URI: https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/50315

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