Lorenzo Vianello

Cooperation or Collaboration? on a Human-Inspired Impedance Strategy in a Human-Robot Co-Manipulation Task

Learning Therapist Policy from Therapist-Exoskeleton-Patient Interaction

Post-stroke rehabilitation is often necessary for patients to regain proper walking gait. However, the typical therapy process can be exhausting and physically demanding for therapists, potentially reducing therapy intensity, duration, and consistency over time. We propose a Patient-Therapist Force …

Exoskeleton-Mediated Physical Human-Human Interaction for a Sit-to-Stand Rehabilitation Task

Sit-to-Stand (StS) is a fundamental daily activity that can be challenging for stroke survivors due to strength, motor control, and proprioception deficits in their lower limbs. Existing therapies involve repetitive StS exercises, but these can be physically demanding for therapists while assistive…

Human Posture Prediction During Physical Human-Robot Interaction

When a human is interacting physically with a robot to accomplish a task, his/her posture is inevitably influenced by the robot movement. Since the human is not controllable, an active robot imposing a collaborative trajectory should predict the most likely human posture. This prediction should cons