Abstract Models are among the most essential tools in robotics, such as kinematics and
dynamics models of the robot's own body and controllable external objects. It is widely …

Motivated by the need of a robust and practical inverse kinematics (IK) algorithm for the
WAM robot arm, we reviewed the most used closed-loop IK methods for redundant robots …

With the emergence of more challenging contexts for robotics, the mechanical design of
robots is becoming more and more complex. Moreover, their missions often involve …

Safe human-robot interactions require robots to be able to learn how to behave
appropriately in spaces populated by people and thus to cope with the challenges posed by …

Robots are no longer confined to factories; they are progressively spreading to urban, social
and assistive domains. In order to become handy co-workers and helpful assistants, they …

In the last decades, cognitive models of multisensory integration in human beings have
been developed and applied to model human body experience. Recent research indicates …

In this paper, we describe a novel approach to obtain automatic adaptation of the robot body
schema and to improve the robot perceptual and motor skills based on this body knowledge …

Humanoid robots have complex kinematic chains whose modeling is error prone. If the robot
model is not well calibrated, its hand pose cannot be determined precisely from the encoder …

The termbody schema'refers to a computational representation of a physical body; the
neural representation of a human body, or the numerical representation of a robot body. In …

This paper presents Bézier curve based passive neural control applied in bio-inspired
locomotion in order to decrease the computational cost implemented for 4 legged animal …