Evaluation of a 7-DoFs Robotic Manipulator as Haptic Interface During Planar Reaching Tasks

Alessia Noccaro,Silvia Buscaglione,Mattia Pinardi,Giovanni Di Pino,Domenico Formica,Alessia Noccaro,Silvia Buscaglione,Mattia Pinardi,Giovanni Di Pino,Domenico Formica

In this work, we evaluated the suitability of using a 7 degrees of freedom robotic manipulator as a planar haptic interface for studies in motor neuroscience. In particular, we assessed to what extent it can measure human movement and forces without applying undesired perturbations. To this aim, we evaluated the amount of perturbation exerted by the robot during planar reaching movements when cont...