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For a safe and successful daily living assistance, far from the highly controlled environment of a factory, robots should be able to adapt to ever-changing situations. Programming such a robot is a tedious process that requires expert knowledge. An alterna ...
How do I automate this task? This is a crucial question for production engineers. In classical industrial automation (think of a car factory) robots perform a small set of tasks for long periods of time. They were selected because their kinematic structure ...
Humans naturally vary their body posture in order to quickly move or apply forces along specific directions. Such posture changes are strongly linked to the specific requirements of the task at hand, and therefore play a relevant role on task performance. ...
When learning skills from demonstrations, one is often required to think in advance about the appropriate task representation (usually in either operational or configuration spaces). We here propose a probabilistic approach for simultaneously learning and ...
Despite recent advances in prostheses, intuitive and robust control of poly-articulated prosthetic hands remains an unsolved problem. The TACT-HAND project aims at providing hand amputees with improved dexterous capabilities by exploiting tactile sensing a ...
The goal of this special issue is to document and highlight recent progress in robot learning for human–robot collaboration (HRC), covering a diversity of articles that reflect the state-of-the-art in the field. Following an open call for papers, we receiv ...
Shared control strategies can improve task-performance in teleoperation. In such systems automation guides or corrects a human operator. The amount of correction or guidance that is provided is denoted the level-of-automation. As the variety of teleoperati ...
This paper presents a novel strategy to learn a positional controller for the body of a flexible surgical manipulator used for minimally invasive surgery. The manipulator is developed within the STIFF-FLOP European project and is targeted for a laparoscopi ...
Underwater manipulation is a challenging problem. The state of the art is dominated by Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROV). ROV operations typically require an offshore crew consisting of at least an intendant, an operator, and a navigator. This crew often ha ...
In the context of robotic control, synergies can form an elementary unit of behavior. By specifying task-dependent coordination behaviors at a low control level, one can achieve task-specific disturbance rejection. In this work we present an approach to le ...
