ArmSym: A Virtual Human-Robot Interaction Laboratory for Assistive Robotics

• Published in: IEEE transactions on human-machine systems Vol. 51; no. 6; pp. 568 - 577
• Main Authors: Bustamante, Samuel, Peters, Jan, Scholkopf, Bernhard, Grosse-Wentrup, Moritz, Jayaram, Vinay
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.12.2021; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: ArmSym; Human-robot interaction; Laboratories; Prostheses; Prosthetics; Rehabilitation robotics; robot arm; Robot arms; Robot control; Robotics; Robots; simulated laboratory; Virtual humans; Virtual reality; Wheelchairs

Research in human-robot interaction for assistive robotics usually presents many technical challenges for experimenters, forcing researchers to split their time between solving technical problems and conducting experiments. In addition, previous work in virtual reality setups tends to focus on a sin...