We study a reaching movement controller for a redundant serial arm manipulator, based on two principles believed to be central
to biological motion control: multi-referential control and dynamical system control. The resulting controller is based on
two concurrent dynamical systems acting on different, yet redundant variables. The first dynamical system acts on the end-effector
location variables and the second one acts on the joint angle variables. Coherence constraints are enforced between those
two redundant representations of the movement and can be used to modulate the relative influence of each dynamical system.
We illustrate the advantages of such a redundant representation of the movement regarding singularities and joint angle avoidance.
Keywords Bio-inspired reaching - Dynamical system control - Multi-referential control - DLS inverse - Redundant manipulator control - Joint limit avoidance - Singularity avoidance