Overcoming human force amplification limitations in comanipulation tasks with industrial robot

Comanipulation (i.e. a man and a robot sharing the same task) is an emerging robotics field. Despite interesting preliminary results, there is still a number of issues to be fixed for efficient implementation of cobotics, for example in the force amplification case. We will show how to solve problems like apparent inertia limitation, passivity constraints, force transient optimization, etc. Theoretical, as well as experimental results will be presented.