Collaborative robots can relief human operators from excessive efforts during payload lifting
activities. Modelling the human partner allows the design of safe and efficient collaborative …

When a human and a humanoid robot collaborate physically, ergonomics is a key factor to
consider. Assuming a given humanoid robot, several control architectures exist nowadays to …

Improving the quality of work for human beings is receiving a lot of attention from multiple
research communities. In particular, digital transformation in human factors and ergonomics …

The shift towards product personalization is the main enabler behind Industry 4.0 and drives
the need to deploy flexible and reconfigurable assembly systems. This paper investigates …

The future where the industrial shop-floors witness humans and robots working in unison
and the domestic households becoming a shared space for both these agents is not very far …

In this paper we consider the problem of allowing a humanoid robot that is subject to a
persistent disturbance, in the form of a payload-carrying task, to follow given planned …

Ergonomics is a key factor to consider when designing control architectures for effective
physical collaborations between humans and humanoid robots. In contrast, ergonomic …

Humanoid robot collaborative lifting can be used in a variety of scenarios that require
repetitive lifting tasks. Most existing studies of humanoid robot collaboration often assume …

Humans have an innate ability to collaborate. This translates into the completion of tasks
otherwise impossible, or the capability of performing complex actions in an efficient manner …

In recent years, there has been a drastic improvement in the robotic field concerning the
development and control of humanoid robots to endow them with the ability to interact and …