Dynamically shared control in human-robot teams through physical interactions

Abstract

An intelligent robot control scheme is presented which enables a cooperative work of humans and robots through direct contact interaction in a partially known environment. The control of the degrees of freedom of the manipulator is shared through a hybrid controller between the operator and the intelligent control system. The allocation of the control among human and robot occurs dynamically according to the state of the task execution and the capabilities of the human and the robot. Experiments were conducted to prove the effectiveness of our concept.