Working Group 3 – Application-domains
Working Group Leader
Catherine Bidard

Working Group Leader
Simona Crea
Wearable robots are human body worn actuated devices that mechanically interact with the sensorimotor system of a human user for the purpose of augmentation, assistance, or substitution of human motor functions. Among others, the evolution of WRs into a mainstream technology calls for better embedding of their development in application domains.
In the healthcare domain, Wearable Robots are emerging rapidly as tools to provide intense repetitive rehabilitation, movements training or to provide assistance during lower-limb and upper-limb functional tasks, as well as to support medical practitioners such as physical therapists, surgeons, and care workers by reducing their physical burden and support precise motions. Wearable Robots have also been developed to physically assist workers in production and logistics, by transferring the load carried by the user or helping in keeping some postures. Other application domains include sport training, teleoperation, haptics and new applications will appear, each one presenting diverse functional, technical, ethical and regulatory needs.
By defining profiles of Wearable Robots for different applications and domains, we intend to help and promote the discussions between experts, product developers and users, considering societal and market needs, roadblocks and risks. The final goal is to highlight the key issues per application domain that may facilitate or hinder the effective and beneficial introduction of Wearable Robots.
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During the Working Group meeting in Porto we brainstormed on possible classifications of application domains for WRs and carried out the profile analysis of relevant prostheses and exoskeletons commercially available. The analysis of product profiles allowed to list the most common terms used to identify primary and secondary functions of WRs.
During the COST meeting in London, the WG3 leaders presented a first list of review papers and databases for the product state of the art and a first draft of product profile sheet for the product overview. The plan of the activities for the first year of the project was also discussed with other COST members.
Members
Alejandro Melendez-Calderon, cereneo Foundation, Switzerland
Alexandros Gkiokas, Ortelio, United Kingdom
Ali Hassan Sodhro, Linkoping University, Sweden
Alkinoos Athanasiou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Amalric Ortlieb, EPFL, Switzerland
Amartya Ganguly, Marsi Bionics, Spain
Annick Timmermans, Universiteit Hasselt, Belgium
Antonio I Cuesta-Vargas, Universidad de Malaga /Insitituo de Investigación Biomedica de Malaga, Spain
Antonio J. del-Ama, Servicio de Salud de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Carlos Rodriguez-Guerrero, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Chris Baten, Roessingh Research and Development, Nederland
Cristina Santos, University of Minho, Portugal
Cristina Urdiales Garcia, Universidad de Malaga, Espana
Daniel Roetenberg, Hocoma, Switzerland
Danijela Ristic-Durrant, Institute of Automation, University of Bremen, Germany
Dejan Popovic, University of Belgrade, Facuty of Electrical Engineering, Serbia
Desislava Despotova, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Bulgaria
Duncan Turner, University of East London, United Kingdom
Erik Prinsen, Roessingh Research and Development, the Netherlands
Evagoras Xydas, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
Gediminas Valiulis, Siauliai University Research Institute, Lithuania
George Adamides, Agricultural Research Institute, Cyprus
Gerdienke Prange, Roessingh Research and Development, Netherlands
Guillaume Fau, Space Applications Services NV/SA, Belgium
Guna Berzina, Riga Stradins University, Latvia
Ildar Farkhatdinov, Queen Mary University of London/Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Indrek Must, IMS Lab, Institute of Technology University of Tartu, Estonia
Isabel Barbancho, Universidad de Malaga, Spain
Jaap Buurke, Roessingh Research and Development, Netherlands
Jan Veneman, Tecnalia Research and Innovation, Spain
Joel Glover, University of Oslo, Norway
Jose Gonzalez-Vargas, Otto Bock HealthCare GmbH, Germany
Juan Moreno, Instituto Cajal, CSIC, Spain
Katerina Pastra, Cognitive Systems Research Institute, Greece
Kristin Briem, University of Iceland, Iceland
Krzysztof Kozlowski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Lana Popović-Maneski, Institute of Technical Sciences of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Serbia
Leonard O’Sullivan, University of Limerick, Ireland
Loredana Zollo, Unit of Biomedical Robotics and Biomicrosystems – Universit? Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy
Loris Roveda, ITIA-CNR, Italy
Maria Kyrarini, Institute of Automation, University of Bremen, Germany
Marija Radmilovic, Institute Mihailo Pupin, Serbia
Massimo Di Pardo, CRF, Italy
Matúš Pleva, Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia
Michiel de Looze, TNO, Netherlands
Mihai Berteanu, Elias University Hospital, Romania
Mirjana Filipovic, Mihailo Pupin Institute, Serbia
Motti haridim, Holon institute of technology, Israel
Nathanaël Jarrassé, ISIR, CNRS – Sorbonne Université, France
Nevena Ackovska, Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, Macedonia
Nikola Milasinovic, Academy of Criminalistic and Police Studies, Department of Forensics, Serbia
Panos Markopoulos, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Pavel Smrz, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Peter Feys, UHasselt, België
Petros Stefaneas, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Philipp Beckerle, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
Pierre Letier, Space Applications Services NV/SA, Belgium
Qinyuam Fang, University of Bremen, Germany
Ramon Sancibrian, Department of Structural and Mechanical Engineering, University of Cantabria, Spain
Ranko Zotovic Stanisic, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Raziel Riemer, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
Romain Valette, , France
Ruben Alonso, CARTIF, Spain
saeed zahedi, Blatchford, United Kingdom
Samer Mohammed, University Paris-Est Créteil – UPEC, France
Sara Hamdan, Özye?in University – Biomechatronics Lab., Turkey
Senka Anastasova, Centre for Contemporary Cultural Research, Macedonia
Shiqian Wang, Reboocon Bionics B.V., Netherlands
Simona Crea, The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy
Simone Pasinetti, University of Brescia, Italy
Stefano Toxiri, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy
Suzanne-Marie Psaila, University of Malta, Malta
Tamim Asfour, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Vagan Terziyan, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Zlatko Matjačić, University rehabilitation institute, Republic of Slovenia, Slovenija
Zoran Pandilov, Ss.Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje,Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Macedonia
