Research Interests within KHeaT

A tight and synergetic human machine collaboration plays a major role in future health technologies, examples are cooperative surgery, rehabilitation through cooperation and telemanipulated medicine. 

Our group is working on human machine cooperation with a strong emphasis on optimality principles, which show on the one hand a substantial better descriptive power of collaboration and can therefore be used for collaborative designs. On the other hand, there is first evidence for a neurological foundation of optimality as fundamental principle of collaboration.

Among other subjects, our group works on inverse optimality principles in collaborative settings. We are the first, who developed inverse methods being online capable.

Application fields in the health sector are robot guided rehabilitation, low cost telemanipulation and cooperative health services.