Multidisciplinary discussion, this is the key.
The workshop is open to any student, researcher, or company interested in exploiting robotic systems for tasks (potentially) involving a high level of forceful interactions, including interactions with unknown and dynamic environments or cooperation with humans. A proper impedance regulation is indeed an aspect of paramount importance to fruitfully execute the desired task while avoiding damages to the robot and guaranteeing human safety. Multiple solutions have been proposed so far by the research community, tackling the problem at different levels, from robot control and planning to system design.
For this reason, we believe that the considered topic could be of significant interest for a very broad audience. The main targeted communities are those related to robotic force control and human-robot and/or robot-robot physical interaction. However, people working on the design of intrinsically compliant systems, e.g. soft robots, may have interest in the proposed workshop to discuss ambitious alternative solutions to this challenge. Finally, we expect human neuromotor control community can provide inspiration to develop data-driven approaches with recent progress in human natural movements and impedance regulation.