Working Group 2 – Key enabling technologies and tools

Working Group Leader

Carlos Rodriguez Guerrero

This working group focuses on the key enabling technologies and tools (KETT) for wearable robots. In general, KETTs provide the basis for innovation in a range of products across all industrial sectors. They underpin the shift to a greener economy, are instrumental in modernising Europe’s industrial base, and drive the development of entirely new industries. Their importance makes them a key element of European industrial policy.
In other words, the KETTs are those pieces of applied science, that give us the tools and techniques we need, to facilitate innovation and the appearing of disruptive technologies in a certain industry or emerging technology. In fact, most of the times, the KETTs are those responsible for the appearance of entirely new technologies and scientific fields.
Not only technology but also tools can trigger innovation. Moreover, in order to be able to compare two pieces of technologies, benchmarking is key. One of our biggest efforts need to be, that of finding out suitable benchmarking techniques, to assess and compare the selected KETTs.
In this working group, our focus will be that of defining state-of-the-art and R&I goals for Key Enabling Tools and Technologies such as actuators, sensors, microcontrollers, system modelling tools, human modelling tools and approaches, support inclusion of novel technologies and materials, as well as prior solutions developed and used in several national and international research projects; make existing R&D better accessible to WR community and comparable throughout the research community, by providing adequate benchmarks.
We organized 2 mini workshops on Thursday and Friday respectively. We defined an initial working plan, defining a first internal deadline on march 2018, to have the very first working dataset with categories, coming from inputs of different partners. Some dates in between had also been defined for brainstorm and possible skype activities. 
Workshop #1: Thursday: 15:00-17:00   2 hours
    Brainstorm to define the target technologies. I.e: Prosthetics, Exoskeletons, Exosuits.
    Brainstorm on the proposed categories. Propose new / reduce the number.
    Brainstorm on the elements for each category. Use the given list as a starting point. Add, reduce, adapt them.
Workshop #2: Friday: 9:00-11:00   2 hours
    Brainstorm to define the 4 years objectives and milestones.
    Brainstorm to define the 1st year action plan. I.e: tasks that lead to a proper 1st version document where KETT’s are clearly identified, and each element is described and selected with an application domain in mind (WG3). Therefore, tasks need to be coordinated with the outputs of WG3.
    Discuss further internal organization of the WG and the ways to communicate effectively. (propose software tools for management and communications).
We have made the first presentation on WG3 KETT’s and discussed ideas on how to proceed. We have established contact with interested people
Members
Aleksandar Jevremovic, Singidunum University, Serbia
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
Andreas Mueller, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Österreich
Andrei Gurtov, Linköping University, Sweden
Anna Pribilova, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia
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
Axel Koopman, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Nederland
Brian Andrews, Universities of Oxford and Warwick, UK
Carlos Rodriguez-Guerrero, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Chris Baten, Roessingh Research and Development, Nederland
Claudio Rossi, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Cristina, AYESA AIR CONTROL, Spain
Cristina Santos, University of Minho, Portugal
Cristina Urdiales Garcia, Universidad de Malaga, España
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
Erik Prinsen, Roessingh Research and Development, the Netherlands
Gediminas Valiulis, Siauliai University Research Institute, Lithuania
Guillaume Fau, Space Applications Services NV/SA, Belgium
Gurvinder Singh Virk, InnovativeTechnology and Science Limited, United Kingdom
Heike Vallery, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Indrek Must, “IMS Lab, Institute of Technology University of Tartu”, Estonia
Isabel Barbancho, Universidad de Malaga, Spain
Ivanka Veneva, “Institute of Mechanics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences”, Bulgaria
Izzet Fatih Senturk, Bursa Technical University, Turkey
Jaap Buurke, Roessingh Research and Development, Netherlands
Jan Veneman, Hocoma AG, Switzerland
Je Hyung Jung, Tecnalia Research and innovation, Spain
Jens Gerken, Westfälische Hochschule, Germany
Jose Gonzalez-Vargas, Otto Bock HealthCare GmbH, Germany
Just Herder, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Katerina Pastra, Cognitive Systems Research Institute, Greece
Laura Marchal Crespo, University of Bern, Switzerland
Leonard O’Sullivan, University of Limerick, Ireland
Loris Roveda, ITIA-CNR, Italy
Louis Flynn, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Luisa Maria Garcia Jorge, IPB and INESCC, Portugal
Marco Rossini, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Marek Traczynski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Maria Kyrarini, “Institute of Automation, University of Bremen”, Germany
Marija Radmilovic, Institute Mihailo Pupin, Serbia
Marta Moltedo, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Faculty of Applied Sciences Department of Mechanical Engineering, Belgium
Massimo Di Pardo, CRF, Italy
Matteo Lancini, Universitá degli Studi di Brescia, Italia
Matteo Sposito, IIT – Italian Institute of Technology, Italy
Matúš Pleva, Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia
Merve Acer, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
METİN BİLGİN, Bursa Uludağ University, Turkey
Milos Stojmenovic, Singidunum University, Serbia
Mirjana Filipovic, Mihailo Pupin Institute, Serbia
Motti haridim, Holon institute of technology, Israel
Nathanaël Jarrassé, “ISIR, CNRS – Sorbonne Université”, France
Navvab Kashiri, Italian Institue of Technology, Italy
Nenad Ristic, Sinergija University, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Niall Murray, Athlone Institute of Technology, Ireland
Nicolae Alexandru Stoica, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Nikola Milasinovic, “Academy of Criminalistic and Police Studies, Department of Forensics”, Serbia
Nuno Miguel Fonseca Ferreira, Coimbra Institute of Engineering, Portugal
Pablo Lopez Garcia, Vrije Universteit Brussel, Belgium
Pavel Smrz, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Petko Kiriazov, “Institute of Mechanics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences”, Bulgaria
Petre Lucian Seiciu, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Pierre Letier, Space Applications Services NV/SA, Belgium
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
Renaud Ronsse, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Romain Valette, , France
Ruben Alonso, CARTIF, Spain
Samer Mohammed, University Paris-Est Créteil – UPEC, France
Sara Hamdan, Özyeğin University – Biomechatronics Lab., Turkey
Shiqian Wang, Reboocon Bionics B.V., Netherlands
Simone Pasinetti, University of Brescia, Italy
Stefano Toxiri, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy
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
Tom Verstraten, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Torsten Siedel, Space Applications Services NV/SA, Belgium
Vagan Terziyan, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Viera Stopjakova, Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia
Volkan Patoglu, Sabanci University, Turkey
Zoran Pandilov, “Ss.Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Republic of Macedonia”, Republic of Macedonia