The use of mobile assistance robots can reduce the physical and mental strain on physically impaired people during everyday tasks, enabling them to remain in their own homes for as long as possible. However, important aspects such as personal safety and user acceptance in human-robot interaction have not yet been sufficiently researched.

The aim of this project is to improve the basic skills of complex interaction strategies for mobile assistance robots. The project focuses on handover processes between humans and robots in close proximity, without spatial or temporal separation. The use of new types of sensors that can detect both contact and proximity is intended to ensure the continuous and complete guarantee of physical integrity as a basic prerequisite for handover scenarios with points of contact between humans and robot systems and to make handover processes significantly safer and more flexible.