Modeling Human Motor Skills to Enhance Robots' Physical Interaction

The need for users’ safety and technology acceptability has incredibly
increased with the deployment of co-bots physically interacting with humans in
industrial settings, and for people assistance. A well-studied approach to meet
these requirements is to ensure human-like robot motions and interactions. In this
manuscript, we present a research approach that moves from the understanding
of human movements and derives usefull guidelines for the planning of arm
movements and the learning of skills for physical interaction of robots with the
surrounding environment.