Working Group 2 – Key enabling technologies and tools

Working Group Leader
Jan Babic

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.
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