Human-Aware Robotics: Modeling Human Motor Skills for the Design, Planning and Control of a New Generation of Robotic Devices

By Giuseppe Averta

Book Overview

Introduction.- Part I: Taming the Complexity of Human Motion Generation.- Understanding the Principal Modes of Natural Movements in Temporal Domain.- Quantifying the Time-Invariance Properties of Upper Limb Synergies.- Evidences on the Hierarchical Control of Human Hands.- Part II: On the Design of Nature-Inspired Prostheses and the Assessment of Motion Impairment.- Using Nature-Inspired Principles to Design of Robotic Limbs: the Soft Wrist.- A Novel Approach to Quantify Motion Impairment.- A novel mechatronic system for evaluating elbow muscular spasticity relying on Tonic Stretch Reflex Threshold estimation.- Part III: Transferring Human Principles to Cobots and Autonomous Robots.- Natural Motion: Embedding Human-Likeliness in Robot Movements.- A Focus on Motion Dynamics: Planning Impedance Behaviors in Physical Interaction.- Learning from Humans How to Grasp: a Reactive-Based Approach.- Learning from Humans How to Grasp: Enhancing the Reaching Strategy.- Learning to prevent grasp failure with soft hands: from on-line prediction to dual-arm grasp recovery.- Dexterity Augmentation of Robotic Hands: a Study on the Kinetic Domain.- Exploiting Principal Components for Robots Walking: an Approach for Sub-Optimal Locomotion.- Conclusions and Lessons Learned.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 303092520X
• ISBN13: 9783030925208
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"