Novel engineering approach for more human-like robots

Humanoids cannot stand ground in environments that humans easily navigate. An EU initiative proposed an alternative engineering control paradigm to replicate the adaptability and flexibility of human motor control.

Intermittent control (IC) uses a sequence of parameterised open-loop control trajectories whose parameters are adjusted sporadically using feedback. The EU-funded ROBOTICS project proposed a specific robotics implementation of the IC model, and argued that this is a valuable element missing from current robotic schemes.

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