Research

Humanoid robots & human-robot interaction:

• Dynamic whole-body motion generation and control for humanoids;
• Endowing humanoid robots with motion intelligence
• Manipulation of objects with complex dynamics
• Benchmarking humanoid robot motions
• Close physical-social human-humanoid interaction
• Humanoid-humanoid collaboration
• Overimitation of robots by children
• Robots for COVID testing and suppor

Wearable robots, rehabilitation robots and intelligent assistive devices

• Lower limb exoskeletons for motion assistance and rehabilitation
• Spinal exoskeletons for prevention and reintegration
• Mobility assistance robots for older adults
• Prostheses in sports
• Everyday lower limb prostheses
• Robot-assisted gait rehabilitation
• Functional electrical stimulation for upper and lower limbs
• Wearable sensors for medical applications
• Exoskeletons in surgery  

Analysis and improvement of human movement

• Experimental and computational studies of human movement
• Everyday motions Motions in sports
• Change of motions and motor capabilities over the human life cycle
• Stability and robustness of movement
• Human push recovery
• Effects of pathologies on motions
• Motions of persons with mental diseases
• Emotional body language in humans
• Motor control

Efficient models and algorithms

• Realistic modeling of humans and robots and their interactions (MBS models, hybrid MBS-FES models)
• Optimal control-based motion generation and control
• Inverse optimal control
• Real time control
• Combination of model-based and model-free / data driven methods for control
• AI-based motion classification