Program

Keynote Speakers

Multidisciplinary aspects will be covered, ranging from design, planning and control to psychophysics, usability, and accessibility evaluation of technologies. The range of speakers reflects this multidisciplinariety.

Confirmed Speakers

'Centro di Ricerca E. Piaggio, University of Pisa' & 'Soft Robotics for Human Cooperation and Rehabilitation (SOFTBOT), Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT)'

Impedance Control: Planning or Learning?

'Department of Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt University'

Compliant Actuation for Human Performance Augmentation

'Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London'

Interaction Control in Humans and Robots

'Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) ' & 'Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences , Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)'

Mastering the Skeleton and its Muscles

'Human-centered Assistive Robotics, Technical University of Munich (TUM)', & 'Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, German Aerospace Center (DLR)'

'Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, Arizona State University'

Biomechanics-based Variable Damping Controller for Enhanced Physical Human Robot Interaction

'Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University' & 'Shirley Ryan AbilityLab'

Does the Nervous System Leverage Impedance to Simplify the Neural Control of Movement?

'Tandon School of Engineering, New York University' & 'Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) '

Impedance modulation: a necessary trade-off between environmental uncertainty and external disturbances?

'Robotics And Mechatronics group, University of Twente' & 'Bio-mechatronics and Energy-Efficient Robotics Group, ITMO University '

'Institute of Artificial Intelligence, University of Science and Technology Beijing'

Human-robot collaborative carrying using visual and force sensing