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SUMMARY:MechE Colloquium: On motor intelligence for continuum soft robots
DTSTART:20230419T130000
DTEND:20230419T140000
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Cosimo Della Santina\, Cognitive Robotics (CoR) departme
 nt\, TU Delft\nAbstract: Leveraging the capabilities provided by their def
 ormable bodies\, continuum soft robots promise to have a disruptive impact
  on several fields of science\, industry\, and society. In the past decade
 \, substantial progress has been made in developing soft robotic platforms
 \, but significantly less attention has been devoted to the control challe
 nge. Today\, soft robotic systems still need a low-level artificial brain 
 that can make them execute precise motions and eventually exploit the in
 telligence embedded in their complex mechanical structures. In this talk\,
  I will briefly introduce this grand challenge within the soft robotic fie
 ld and then introduce the model-based view of its solution. I will show
  how simplified models can be combined with nonlinear control theory\, lea
 ding to precise and dynamic task execution. I will then discuss how these 
 techniques can be combined with data and machine learning.\n\nBiography: C
 osimo Della Santina is Assistant Professor at TU Delft and Research Sci
 entist at the German Aerospace Institute (DLR). He received his Ph.D. in r
 obotics (cum laude\, 2019) from the University of Pisa. He was a visiting
  Ph.D. student and a postdoc (2017 to 2019) at the Computer Science and Ar
 tificial Intelligence Laboratory\, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (
 MIT). He was a senior postdoc (2020) and guest lecturer (2021) at the Dep
 artment of Informatics\, Technical University of Munich (TUM). Cosimo ha
 s been awarded euRobotics Georges Giralt Ph.D. Award (2020)\, the “Fabr
 izio Flacco” Young Author Award of I-RAS (2019)\, and he has been a fina
 list for the European Embedded Control Institute Ph.D. award (2020). In 20
 23\, he received the IEEE RAS Early Academic Career Award in Robotics and
  Automation. He is PI for TU Delft of the European Projects Natural Inte
 lligence and EMERGE\, co-director of the Delft AI Lab SELF\, and involved 
 in a number of Dutch projects. His research interest is in providing moto
 r intelligence to physical systems\, focusing on elastic and soft robots.
LOCATION:MED 0 1418 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==MED%200%201418 https://epf
 l.zoom.us/j/64230566011
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