Working Group 1 – Foundational Science

Working Group Leader
Edwin van Asseldonk

Working Group Leader
Etienne Burdet
As the name implies, in wearable robotics there will always be a person who is “wearing” the robotic device. The person will be wearing the device as (s)he wants to benefit from it, for instance by making him/her better in performing a particular task, making it less energy demanding to perform a task and/or performing a task that would be impossible to perform without the device. The human and robotic device will always have to cooperate to complete a task. Consequently, when optimizing the performance of wearable robotics, the human and its interaction with the robot need to be taken into account. This Working Group WG1 on foundational sciences focusses on this human machine interaction. Its objective is to identify and prioritize the main open research questions related to human-robot-interaction and -interfaces. This will cover topics like robust classification of human motion intention, artificial sensory feedback on human-robot performance, the automatic learning taking place when using robotic devices and how to facilitate their use, inter-subject variability in response to robotic support, interaction control algorithms. We plan to organize focused workshops on selected topics to discuss the open and most relevant issues regarding this topic. These workshops will lead to position papers that will summarize and further discuss the most important results from these workshops.
WG 1 - Upcoming Events
There are no upcoming events.
Past events
During the plenary presentation, we gave a short introduction to our working group, give some more examples of topics covered in this working group and shortly discussed some recently published research in human-machine interaction that illustrated the current state of the art.
In the parallel session, we performed a brain storming sessions to make a start with identifying the most important open research questions regarding human-machine interaction control and human-machine interfacing. Each participant wrote down their 3-5 most urgent questions and these questions were discussed and categorized. In the coming years, we plan to organize workshops around these categories to further discuss and identify the most important issues and work towards position/review papers regarding these issues.
During this meeting, we gave a short presentation in which we introduced the objectives and tasks of our working group and shortly outlined some topics that could be part of our working group. Finally, we presented our plans to organize satellite workshops at some conferences next year like Biorob.
