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Exoskeleton robots have become a promising tool in neurorehabilitation, offering effective physical therapy and recovery monitoring. The success of these therapies relies on precise motion control systems. Although computed torque control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-11 SK Hasan

Segmentation models achieve high accuracy on benchmarks but often fail in real-world domains by relying on spurious correlations instead of true object boundaries. We propose a human-in-the-loop interactive framework that enables…

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This paper presents a hierarchical control strategy based on hybrid systems theory, nonlinear control, and safety-critical systems to enable cooperative locomotion of robotic guide dogs and visually impaired people. We address…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-08 Kaveh Akbari Hamed , Vinay R. Kamidi , Wen-Loong Ma , Alexander Leonessa , Aaron D. Ames

Neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) has been effectively applied in many rehabilitation treatments of individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI). In this context, we introduce a novel, robust, and intelligent control-based…

Human movement analysis is crucial in health and sports biomechanics for understanding physical performance, guiding rehabilitation, and preventing injuries. However, existing tools are often proprietary, expensive, and function as "black…

This work presents an extended framework for learning-based bipedal locomotion that incorporates a heuristic step-planning strategy guided by desired torso velocity tracking. The framework enables precise interaction between a humanoid…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-01 William Suliman , Ekaterina Chaikovskaia , Egor Davydenko , Roman Gorbachev

Lower limb exoskeleton robots hold great potential for rehabilitation, movement assistance, and strength augmentation. Design control to guarantee optimal needed assistance is still a challenge considering the pathological variances between…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-19 Maria-Sara-Nour Sadoun , Fouad Yacef

Much work in robotics has focused on "human-in-the-loop" learning techniques that improve the efficiency of the learning process. However, these algorithms have made the strong assumption of a cooperating human supervisor that assists the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Jiali Duan , Qian Wang , Lerrel Pinto , C. -C. Jay Kuo , Stefanos Nikolaidis

Endowing humanoid robots with the ability to perform highly dynamic motions akin to human-level acrobatics has been a long-standing challenge. Successfully performing these maneuvers requires close consideration of the underlying physics in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Gerald Brantner

Effective close-proximity human-robot interaction (CP-HRI) requires robots to be able to both efficiently perform tasks as well as adapt to human behavior and preferences. However, this ability is mediated by many, sometimes competing,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Sam Scheele , Pierce Howell , Harish Ravichandar

This study modifies the Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy (CMA-ES) algorithm for multi-modal optimization problems. The enhancements focus on addressing the challenges of multiple global minima, improving the algorithm's…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Wathsala Karunarathne , Indu Bala , Dikshit Chauhan , Matthew Roughan , Lewis Mitchell

Behavioural cloning has been extensively used to train agents and is recognized as a fast and solid approach to teach general behaviours based on expert trajectories. Such method follows the supervised learning paradigm and it strongly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Federico Malato , Joona Jehkonen , Ville Hautamäki

A control-theoretic framework for autonomous avatar-guided rehabilitation in virtual reality, based on interpretable, adaptive motor guidance through optimal control, is presented. The framework faces critical challenges in motor…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-11 Francesco De Lellis , Maria Lombardi , Egidio De Benedetto , Pasquale Arpaia , Mario di Bernardo

In this paper, we propose a cost-matching approach for optimal humanoid locomotion within a Model Predictive Control (MPC)-based Reinforcement Learning (RL) framework. A parameterized MPC formulation with centroidal dynamics is trained to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Wenqi Cai , Kyriakos G. Vamvoudakis , Sébastien Gros , Anthony Tzes

Human-in-the-loop learning is gaining popularity, particularly in the field of robotics, because it leverages human knowledge about real-world tasks to facilitate agent learning. When people instruct robots, they naturally adapt their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Jindan Huang , Isaac Sheidlower , Reuben M. Aronson , Elaine Schaertl Short

Learning a locomotion controller for a musculoskeletal system is challenging due to over-actuation and high-dimensional action space. While many reinforcement learning methods attempt to address this issue, they often struggle to learn…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Henri-Jacques Geiß , Firas Al-Hafez , Andre Seyfarth , Jan Peters , Davide Tateo

Compact wearable mapping system (WMS) has gained significant attention due to their convenience in various applications. Specifically, it provides an efficient way to collect prior maps for 3D structure inspection and robot-based "last-mile…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Jianping Li , Shenghai Yuan , Muqing Cao , Thien-Minh Nguyen , Kun Cao , Lihua Xie

Gait analysis is essential in post-stroke rehabilitation but remains time-intensive and cognitively demanding, especially when clinicians must integrate gait videos and motion-capture data into structured reports. We present OGA-AID, a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Khoi T. N. Nguyen , Nghia D. Nguyen , Hui Yu Koh , Patrick W. H. Kwong , Karen Sui Geok Chua , Ananda Sidarta , Baosheng Yu

Generating robust locomotion for a humanoid robot in the presence of disturbances is difficult because of its high number of degrees of freedom and its unstable nature. In this paper, we used the concept of Divergent Component of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Mohammadreza Kasaei , Nuno Lau , Artur Pereira

Long-horizon whole-body humanoid teleoperation remains challenging due to accumulated global pose drift, particularly on full-sized humanoids. Although recent learning-based tracking methods enable agile and coordinated motions, they…