... . Further, this flowchart also classifies the literature in the laterals of the particular decision-making aspect addressed, namely, planning, control, and human–robot interaction. Section 2 presents a description of applications that have the potential to be large beneficiaries from mobile...

...Gianluca Palli; Giovanni Berselli; Claudio Melchiorri; Gabriele Vassura Variable stiffness actuators can be used in order to achieve a suitable trade-off between performance and safety in robotic devices for physical human–robot interaction. With the aim of improving the compactness...

..., the resulting solution guarantees a safe and danger-free path, given the factors used to characterize the danger. The approach exhibits adequate speed of decision making, rendering it potentially suitable for real-time applications involving human-robot interaction. The proposed method is evaluated using a CRS...

... interaction with a patient during the convalescence, rehabilitation, or end-of-life care stage. The robot has been designed as a platform to incorporate the three design parameters of embodiment, emotion, and nonverbal communication to encourage natural human-robot interactions. Herein, we present the overall...