Cognitive Reasoning for Compliant Robot Manipulation

In order to achieve human-like performance, this book covers the four steps of reasoning a robot must provide in the concept of intelligent physical compliance: to represent, plan, execute, and interpret compliant manipulation tasks. A classification of manipulation tasks is conducted to identify the central research questions of the addressed topic.
It is investigated how symbolic task descriptions can be translated into meaningful robot commands.Among others, the developed concept is appli...