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.
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.
Members
Alejandro Melendez-Calderon, cereneo Foundation, Switzerland
Ali Hassan Sodhro, Linkoping University, Sweden
Alkinoos Athanasiou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Amalric Ortlieb, EPFL, Switzerland
Amartya Ganguly, Marsi Bionics, Spain
Andreas Mueller, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Österreich
Andrei Gurtov, Linköping University, Sweden
Carlos Rodriguez-Guerrero, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Claudio Rossi, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Cristina Santos, University of Minho, Portugal
Danijela Ristic-Durrant, Institute of Automation, University of Bremen, Germany
Desislava Despotova, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Bulgaria
Duncan Turner, University of East London, United Kingdom
Edwin van Asseldonk, University of Twente, Netherlands
Evagoras Xydas, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
George Adamides, Agricultural Research Institute, Cyprus
HORVÁTH, János, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
Ildar Farkhatdinov, Queen Mary University of London/Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Isabel Barbancho, Universidad de Malaga, Spain
Izzet Fatih Senturk, Bursa Technical University, Turkey
Jan Babic, “Jožef Stefan” Institute”, Slovenia
Je Hyung Jung, Tecnalia Research and innovation, Spain
Joel Glover, University of Oslo, Norway
Juan Moreno, Instituto Cajal, CSIC, Spain
Katerina Pastra, Cognitive Systems Research Institute, Greece
Krzysztof Kozlowski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Leonard O’Sullivan, University of Limerick, Ireland
Loredana Zollo, Unit of Biomedical Robotics and Biomicrosystems – Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy
Louis Flynn, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Marcella Masciullo, Fondazione Santa Lucia IRCCS, Italy
Marco Molinari, Santa Lucia Foundation, Italy
Marek Traczynski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Maria Kyrarini, Institute of Automation, University of Bremen, Germany
Maria Lazzaroni, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy
Matteo Lancini, Universitá degli Studi di Brescia, Italia
Matúš Pleva, Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia
Max Pascher, Westphalian University of Applied Sciences, Germany
METİN BİLGİN, Bursa Uludağ University, Turkey
Mirjana Filipovic, Mihailo Pupin Institute, Serbia
Nathanaël Jarrassé, ISIR, CNRS – Sorbonne Université, France
Niall Murray, Athlone Institute of Technology, Ireland
Pavel Smrz, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Peter Feys, UHasselt, België
Petko Kiriazov, Institute of Mechanics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Petros Stefaneas, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Philipp Beckerle, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
Qinyuam Fang, University of Bremen, Germany 
Ranko Zotovic Stanisic, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Raziel Riemer, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
Renaud Ronsse, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Romain Valette, France
Sara Hamdan, Özyeğin University – Biomechatronics Lab. Turkey
Senka Anastasova, Centre for Contemporary Cultural Research, Macedonia
Shiqian Wang, Reboocon Bionics B.V. , Netherlands
Simone Pasinetti, University of Brescia, Italy
Sofia Almpani, NTUA, Greece
Stephanie Arevalo, Westphalian University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Tamim Asfour, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Tarik Uzunovic, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Vesna Kirandziska, Faculty of computer science and engineering, Macedonia
Zlatko Matjačić, University rehabilitation institute, Republic of Slovenia, Slovenija