Connecting humans and robots through wearable haptics

Event details
Date | 02.10.2013 |
Hour | 10:30 |
Speaker |
Prof. Domenico Prattichizzo Bio: M.S. degree in Electronics Engineering and the Ph.D. degree in Robotics and Automation from the University of Pisa in 1991 and 1995, respectively. Since 2002 Associate Professor of Robotics at the University of Siena. Since 2009 Senior Scientific at Istituto Italiano di Tecnoloogia, Genova Italy. In 1994, Visiting Scientist at the MIT AI Lab. Co-editor of the books "Control Problems in Robotics" (2003), and "Multi-Point Physical Interaction with Real and Virtual Objects" (2005) by Springer. Guest Co-Editor of Special Issue on "Visual Servoing" of Mechatronics (2012). Guest Co-Editor of Special Issue "Robotics and Neuroscience" of the Brain Research Bulletin (2008). Co-author of the "Grasping" chapter of "Handbook of Robotics" Springer, 2008, awarded with two PROSE Awards presented by the American Association of Publishers. Since 2007 Associate Editor in Chief of the IEEE Trans. on Haptics. From 2003 to 2007, Associate Editor of the IEEE Trans on Robotics and IEEE Trans. on Control Systems Technologies. From 2013 Chair of the IEEE RAS Awards Evaluation Panel. Vice-chair for Special Issues of the IEEE Technical Committee on Haptics (2006-2010). Chair of the Italian Chapter of the IEEE RAS (2006-2010), awarded with the IEEE 2009 Chapter of the Year Award. Co-editor of two books by STAR, Springer Tracks in Advanced Robotics, Springer (2003, 2005). Research interests are in haptics, grasping, visual servoing, mobile robotics and geometric control. Author of more than 200 papers in robotics and automatic control. Participating to four EU projects: ROBOCAST, THE, ACTIVE, DALI. Coordinator of the EU ECHORD-EXPERIMENT HANDS.DVI. From March 2013 Coordinator of the IP collaborative project FP7-ICT-2011-9-601165 "WEARable HAPtics for Humans and Robots" (WEARHAP). European Commission evaluator of proposals of European Projects within the call FP7-ICT-2013-10- ICT- Information and Communication Technologies. |
Location | |
Category | Conferences - Seminars |
The complexity of the world around us is creating a demand for interfaces that will simplify and enhance the way we interact with the environment. In this talk we will present the scientific and technological foundations for wearable haptics, a novel concept that will change the way humans will cooperate with robots. This research stems from the need for wearability which is a key element for natural interaction.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- Lirot Mayra [[email protected]]
Contact
- Lirot Mayra [[email protected]]