Beyond Heuristics: A Standardized Real2Sim Pipeline for Physical Human Robot Interaction in Human-in-the-Loop Simulation

arXiv:2607.03017v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The aging global population drives demand for assistive robots, yet the safety risks and costs of physical testing make Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) simulation an attractive alternative. Its fidelity for coupled systems, however, is limited by interaction models whose impedance parameters are tuned heuristically rather than identified from data. We present a Real2Sim pipeline that identifies the coupled Physical Human-Robot Interaction (pHRI) dynamics ...