Human adaptive mechatronics - Interaction and intelligence

Human adaptive mechatronics (HAM) is an intelligent mechanical system that adapts themselves to human skill under various environments, improves human skill, and assists the operation to achieve best performance of the human-machine system. In this new kind of human-machine system, human factor has to be taken into consideration for the motion-control design. In this paper, several topics of system theories that focus attention on the relation between human and machine are presented.