Learning control in robot-assisted rehabilitation of motor skills–a review

Abstract

The key idea in iterative learning control is captured by the intuition of ‘practice makes perfect’. The underlying learning is based on a gradient descent algorithm iteratively optimising an appropriate input–output measured criterion. How this paradigm is used to model quantitatively, at an input/output level, the learning that happens in the context of human motor skill learning is discussed in this note. Experimental studies of human motor learning, in robotically controlled environments, indicate that a model consisting of a classical (iterative) learning control augmented with an appropriate kinematic model of human motor motion fits the observed human learning behaviour well. In the c..