Human-Robot Interaction, Applications in Rehabilitation, and Roboethics
Event details
| Date | 17.06.2014 |
| Hour | 11:00 |
| Speaker | Prof. Van der Loos, University of British Columbia |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
The UBC-CARIS Lab Research Program
The Collaborative Advanced Robotics and Intelligent Systems (CARIS) Lab at the University of British Columbia has two main pursuits: the exploration of principles guiding human-robot interaction for industrial and personal interactions, and the specific application of mechatronics for physical therapy. This talk will present projects such as: robust robot-human object handover; the role of gestures to communicate intention in resource-conflict collaborative tasks; the modelling of quiet stance control algorithms with a large hexapod robot (RISER); the use of kinematic motion capture and online games in a motivating, bimanual, upper-limb therapy application (FEATHERS); and the exploration of roboethics issues in the real-world context of robots navigating halls and elevators in an office building.
Bio: H.F. Machiel Van der Loos, Ph.D., P.Eng., IEEE member (RAS and EMBS) is Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at UBC. He is Director of the Rehabilitation Robotics for Exercise and Assessment in Collaborative Healthcare (RREACH) Lab, is Associate Director of the Collaborative Advanced Robotics and Intelligent Systems (CARIS) Lab, and teaches engineering design. His research is dedicated to the advancement of rehabilitation robotics and human-robot interaction, and he holds a special interest in the ethical challenges associated with the evolving field. Dr. Van der Loos received his Diplôme d’Ingénieur from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1978 and his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1992. From 1992 to 2007, he was a Principal Investigator at the VA Palo Alto Rehabilitation R&D Center in California, where he focused on assistive and therapy robotics research for spinal cord injury and stroke, and Consulting Professor in the Design Division of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, where he co-developed innovative curricula in design engineering. Dr. Van der Loos is co-Editor of the book, Design and Use of Assistive Technology: Social, Technical, Ethical, and Economic Challenges (2010), and author of more than 30 journal papers, 90 conference papers and 3 book chapters. He has also chaired three IEEE RAS/EMBS conferences in human-robot interaction and rehabilitation robotics.
The Collaborative Advanced Robotics and Intelligent Systems (CARIS) Lab at the University of British Columbia has two main pursuits: the exploration of principles guiding human-robot interaction for industrial and personal interactions, and the specific application of mechatronics for physical therapy. This talk will present projects such as: robust robot-human object handover; the role of gestures to communicate intention in resource-conflict collaborative tasks; the modelling of quiet stance control algorithms with a large hexapod robot (RISER); the use of kinematic motion capture and online games in a motivating, bimanual, upper-limb therapy application (FEATHERS); and the exploration of roboethics issues in the real-world context of robots navigating halls and elevators in an office building.
Bio: H.F. Machiel Van der Loos, Ph.D., P.Eng., IEEE member (RAS and EMBS) is Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at UBC. He is Director of the Rehabilitation Robotics for Exercise and Assessment in Collaborative Healthcare (RREACH) Lab, is Associate Director of the Collaborative Advanced Robotics and Intelligent Systems (CARIS) Lab, and teaches engineering design. His research is dedicated to the advancement of rehabilitation robotics and human-robot interaction, and he holds a special interest in the ethical challenges associated with the evolving field. Dr. Van der Loos received his Diplôme d’Ingénieur from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1978 and his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1992. From 1992 to 2007, he was a Principal Investigator at the VA Palo Alto Rehabilitation R&D Center in California, where he focused on assistive and therapy robotics research for spinal cord injury and stroke, and Consulting Professor in the Design Division of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, where he co-developed innovative curricula in design engineering. Dr. Van der Loos is co-Editor of the book, Design and Use of Assistive Technology: Social, Technical, Ethical, and Economic Challenges (2010), and author of more than 30 journal papers, 90 conference papers and 3 book chapters. He has also chaired three IEEE RAS/EMBS conferences in human-robot interaction and rehabilitation robotics.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- LASA
Contact
- Mayra LIROT