The possibility to provide an adequate task assistance using underactuated robots for human-robot tool comanipulation is investigated. This novel approach does not take into account any a priori knowledge about user depending parameters however optimizes the robot-user synergy, for instance during US breast examinations. Results show that the examination time can be reduced and a tendency for increasing scanning accuracy using underactuated robots.
Affiliations
Université Pierre et Marie Curie - CNRSInstitut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique
Marx, A., Vitrani, M.-A., Herman, B., Iordache, R., Muller, S., & Morel, G. (2011). Synergic comanipulation despite underactuated robot. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2011), 5756-5761. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2011.5979938