Alessandra Toffolo
Real-Time Intention Recognition for Anticipatory Robotic Assistance Based on Ground Reaction Forces (From Intention Recognition to Context-Aware Validation in Multi-Environment Scenarios).
Rel. Laura Gastaldi. Politecnico di Torino, Master of science program in Biomedical Engineering, 2026
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The integration of anticipatory robotic assistance within Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) environments represents a critical challenge in modern biomedical engineering. Traditional assistive interfaces, such as wearable sensors or vision-based systems, often suffer from physical intrusiveness, privacy issues, or high computational latency. This thesis proposes a non-invasive and real-time robotic control system based on Ground Reaction Force (GRF) analysis for the recognition of human postural intentions. The goal is to develop an intelligent framework that, beyond intention recognition, provides proactive support through a robot that adapts its movements based on both the surrounding environment and the specific kinetic signals received from the force platforms.
The core of the system is an "invisible" sensing infrastructure utilizing low-cost floor-embedded force plates to capture Center of Pressure (CoP) trajectories and vertical force (Fz) variations
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