Interaction control in humans and with robots
ABSTRACT My lecture will present experiments and computational modelling to i) understand how humans learn to skilfully interact with their environment and with each other, and ii) endow robots with similarly successful control behaviours. Impedance control describes how biological or robotic motor commands can shape the mechanical interaction with the environment. We have previously provided the first clear experimental evidence of impedance control in humans and described the underlying computational mechanism, which led to a novel adaptive behaviour for robots.…