Jan Veneman, Switzerland

Hocoma AG

MC Chair, WG2 : Key Enabling Tools and Technologies

Lower Extremity Rehabilitation Robotics, Wearable Robots, Human-Robot Interaction, Impedance Control, Compliant Actuation, Orthotics, Biomechanical Measurement and Analysis, Gait and Posture Measurement and Analysis, Clinical Aspects of Stroke Rehabilitation, Statistics, Mechatronics Modelling, Robot Safety Standardization and Performance Benchmarking.

1. Elected Management Committee Chair, and Scientific Manager of the COST Action CA16116 – Wearable Robots (wearablerobots.eu); Coordination of a large European Network around Wearable Robots, covering 34 countries. More information on COST Actions: http://www.cost.eu/ 

2. Project Manager and Principal Investigator of the EU (Seventh Framework Program) funded consortium project BALANCE (http://www.balance-fp7.eu/), duration 55 months; 7 project partners.

3. Internal Project Manager in Research and Technology Organization Tecnalia; principal R&D projects:

a. Varstiff (ReFit): Development of a patented sheet material with adjustable stiffness, based on vacuum/pressure regulation. 

b. WalkAround: Development of a patented over ground gait rehabilitation robot, with balancing support.

c. Haptic Drive: Development of a patented re-configurable arm rehabilitation robot based on series elastic actuators. 

d. TotalFitness: Exploration of a recumbent bike integrated with cognitive exercises for health prevention in elderly users.

4. PhD project on development of LOPES exoskeleton gait rehabilitation robot , University of Twente

  • Veneman, J. F., Kruidhof, R., Hekman, E. E., Ekkelenkamp, R., Van Asseldonk, E. H., & Van Der Kooij, H. (2007). Design and evaluation of the LOPES exoskeleton robot for interactive gait rehabilitation. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 15(3), 379-386
  • Veneman, J. F., Ekkelenkamp, R., Kruidhof, R., van der Helm, F. C., & van der Kooij, H. (2006). A series elastic-and bowden-cable-based actuation system for use as torque actuator in exoskeleton-type robots. The international journal of robotics research, 25(3), 261-281
  • Torricelli, D., Gonzalez-Vargas, J., Veneman, J. F., Mombaur, K., Tsagarakis, N., del-Ama, A. J., … & Pons, J. L. (2015). Benchmarking bipedal locomotion: A unified scheme for humanoids, wearable robots, and humans. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, 22(3), 103-115
  • Shirota, C., van Asseldonk, E., Matjačić, Z., Vallery, H., Barralon, P., Maggioni, S., … & Veneman, J. F. (2017). Robot-supported assessment of balance in standing and walking. Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation, 14(1), 80
  • Veneman, J. F., Burdet, E., Kooij, H. vd., & Lefeber, D. (2017). Emerging directions in lower limbs externally-wearable robots for gait rehabilitation and augmentations –a review. In Advances in Cooperative Robotics (pp. 840-850)