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

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Abstract

How do we walk? How do we manipulate objects? How do we talk, sing, play musical instruments and draw a portrait? What does it happens when—after an accident or a disease—our motor skills are modified? And how can we design and control machines able to perform tasks that most people can do effortlessly?

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Notes

  1. 1.

    With this term, I will refer, hereinafter, to the research conducted from the beginning of ’900.

  2. 2.

    The Nervous System is intended in his central and peripheral components.

  3. 3.

    Note the cross-disciplinary similarities with the Impedance Control [59].

  4. 4.

    The term simplexity stands for a complementary relationship between simplicity and complexity. Nature’s control of animal body, and by extension the synergistic control of mechatronic devices, can be intended—at least in principle—as a very simple implementation of a very complex solution.

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Averta, G. (2022). Introduction. In: Human-Aware Robotics: Modeling Human Motor Skills for the Design, Planning and Control of a New Generation of Robotic Devices. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, vol 145. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92521-5_1

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