11 accepted papers
Haptic interaction plays a crucial role in enhancing realism and immersion in virtual environments, particularly in applications such as robotic rehabilitation. In these environments, therapy based on serious games that combine VR and haptic feed promise to offer engaging, affordable and reliable tr
Robotic-assisted upper limb rehabilitation has gained significant attention in recent years due to its potential to enhance the recovery process for individuals with motor impairments resulting from neurological conditions and injuries. The main rehabilitation treatments rely on the repetitive execu…
This letter presents the dynamic modeling, the gait sequence design, and the control architecture of the BADGER autonomous underground robot. BADGER is a modular and articulated robotic mechanism which employs inchworm biomimetic motion to drill and propel within the soil. It is used to drill and ma
Soft links and actuators are nowadays emerging technologies aiming to overcome some problems in robotics such as weight, cost or human interaction. However, the nonlinear nature of their elements can make their characterization challenging and hinder the use of standard control engineering tools. In…
This paper presents a novel method for the control of the elbow joint of the humanoid robot TEO, based on a fractional order PD controller. Due to the graphical nature of the proposed method, a few basic operations are enough to tune the controller, offering very competitive results compared to clas…
Continuous Goal-Directed Actions (CGDA)is a robot imitation framework that encodes actions as the changes they produce on the environment. While it presents numerous advantages with respect to other robot imitation frameworks in terms of generalization and portability, final robot joint trajectories…
Robotics can play a significant role in the rehabilitation of patients with spasticity by improving their early diagnosis and reducing the costs associated with care. Spasticity is a muscle control disorder characterized by an increase in muscle tone with exaggerated stretch reflexes, as one compone…
The maintenance and inspection of the flooded shafts, specially coal ones, is an important environmental problem. There are thousands of shafts of this type in Europe with the danger of pollution, flood and collapse. This paper presents some of the main ongoing works of the EU project STAMS that dev…
Dynamic balance control for humanoid robots encounters difficulties such as stability, speed, and smoothness. In most of the previous studies, joints act as controller of the Center of Mass (CoM)supported using a simplified mathematical model. Then, the stability of the motion is guaranteed using th…
As robotic systems become more popular in household environments, the complexity of required tasks also increases. In this work we focus on a domestic chore deemed dull by a majority of the population, the task of ironing. The presented algorithm improves on the limited number of previous works by j…
This article presents the design, implementation and test of a joint mechanical device created to improve the safety and performance of robots interacting physically with human beings. The mechanism consists of a series of linear springs, preloaded and arranged in such a way to take advantage of the…