Cristian Secchi

Building a Safe and Seamless Human-Robot Synergy: the Energy Tank approach

Talk abstract: Operating in a dynamic and unstructured environment is one of the maim challenges of today’s robotics. Robots have  to physically interact with entities with unknown dynamics, among which the human is the most challenging. In this scenario, the interactive behavior of the robot has to be reliable, dynamic and safe. In this talk, I will show how, using energy based arguments, it is possible to build a flexible yet provably reliable and safe control strategy for human robot interaction.