title: Using "human state aware" robots to enhance physical human-robot interaction in a cooperative scenario.
abstract: Human motor performance, speed and variability are highly susceptible to emotional states. This paper reviews the impact of the emotions on the motor control performance, and studies the possibility of improving the perceived skill/challenge relation on a multimodal neural rehabilitation scenario, by means of a biocybernetic controller that modulates the assistance provided by a haptic controlled robot in reaction to undesirable physical and mental states. Results from psychophysiological, performance and self assessment data for closed loop experiments in contrast with their open loop counterparts, suggest that the proposed method had a positive impact on the overall challenge/skill relation leading to an enhanced physical human-robot interaction experience.
authors.affiliation: Fundacion CARTIF, Biomedical Engineering Division, Centro Tecnologico de Boecillo, 205, 47151 Boecillo, Valladolid, Spain. Electronic address: sagan61@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Carlos Rodriguez
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Guerrero
authors.forename: Juan Carlos
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Fraile Marinero
authors.forename: Javier Perez
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Turiel
authors.forename: Victor
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Muñoz
mesh_terms: D002138:Calibration; D004644:Emotions; D006801:Humans; D008328:Man-Machine Systems; D012371:Robotics; D014584:User-Computer Interface
keywords: Biocybernetic; Haptics; Human–robot interaction; Psychophysiology; Rehabilitation robotics