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SUMMARY:Connecting humans and robots through wearable haptics - POSTPONED
DTSTART:20130903T100000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Domenico Prattichizzo of the University of Siena\nBio: 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. S
 ince 2002 Associate Professor of Robotics at the University of Siena. Sinc
 e 2009 Senior Scientific at Istituto Italiano di Tecnoloogia\, Genova Ital
 y. In 1994\, Visiting Scientist at the MIT AI Lab.\nCo-editor of the books
  "Control Problems in Robotics" (2003)\, and "Multi-Point Physical Interac
 tion with Real and Virtual Objects" (2005) by Springer. Guest Co-Editor of
  Special Issue on "Visual Servoing" of Mechatronics (2012). Guest Co-Edito
 r of Special Issue "Robotics and Neuroscience" of the Brain Research Bulle
 tin (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 IEE
 E Trans. on Haptics. From 2003 to 2007\, Associate Editor of the IEEE Tran
 s on Robotics and IEEE Trans. on Control Systems Technologies. From 2013 C
 hair of the IEEE RAS Awards Evaluation Panel. Vice-chair for Special Issue
 s of the IEEE Technical Committee on Haptics (2006-2010). Chair of the Ita
 lian Chapter of the IEEE RAS (2006-2010)\, awarded with the IEEE 2009 Chap
 ter of the Year Award. Co-editor of two books by STAR\, Springer Tracks in
  Advanced Robotics\, Springer (2003\, 2005).\nResearch interests are in ha
 ptics\, grasping\, visual servoing\, mobile robotics and geometric control
 . Author of more than 200 papers in robotics and automatic control. Partic
 ipating to four EU projects: ROBOCAST\, THE\, ACTIVE\, DALI. Coordinator o
 f the EU ECHORD-EXPERIMENT HANDS.DVI. From March 2013 Coordinator of the I
 P collaborative project FP7-ICT-2011-9-601165 "WEARable HAPtics for Humans
  and Robots" (WEARHAP). European Commission evaluator of proposals of Euro
 pean Projects within the call FP7-ICT-2013-10- ICT- Information and Commun
 ication Technologies.\nThe 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 tech
 nological foundations for wearable haptics\, a novel concept that will cha
 nge the way humans will cooperate with robots. This research stems from th
 e need for wearability which is a key element for natural interaction.\nAn
  NCCR Robotics event 
LOCATION:CM1 221 http://plan.epfl.ch/?lang=en&room=CM1+221
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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