2015 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

IROS’2015 Full day Workshop

Sept 28, 2015

Cognitive Mobility Assistance Robots:

Scientific Advances and Perspectives


Program

Time

Talk

8:30-8:45

Workshop Opening

 

Session 1. Clinical Motivation and User Perspectives

8:45-9:30

Klaus Hauer, University of Heidelberg, Germany

 

Title: Mobility assistance devices: Clinical motivation and perspectives

 

9:30-10:00

Barbara Klein, Frankfurt University of Applied Science, Germany

Title: The role of culture and gender in the robotic design process

 

10:00 - 10:30

Coffee Break

 

Session 2. Devices, Interaction and Control (1)

10:30-11:00

Angelika Peer, Bristol Robotics Lab, Univ. of the West of England

Title: Shared control for mobility assistive robots

 

11:00-11:30

Cristina Santos, University of Minho, Portugal

Title: A smart Walker for Gait rehabilitation of people with cerebellar ataxia

 

11:30-12:00

Yasuhisa Hirata, Tohoku University, Japan

Title: Mobility Assistance Robots Controlled by Servo Brakes

 

12:00-12:30

Rajiv Dubey, University of South Florida, USA

Title: Evaluating and Optimizing Gait Enhancing Technologies Using a Virtual Reality Environment

   

Poster Session

12:30-12:35

Jorge Solis, Dept of Eng & Physics, Karlstad University, Sweden

Title: Development of a Human-Friendly Walking Assistive Robot Vehicle

 

12:35-12:40

Rajiv Khosla, La Trobe University, Australia

Title: Socially Assistive Robot for People with Dementia in Home-Based Care

 

12:40 - 14:00

Lunch Break

 

Session 3. Devices, Interaction and Control (2)

14:00-14:30

Costas Tzafestas, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Title: User-oriented human-robot interaction for an intelligent walking assistant robotic device

 

14:30-15:00

Etienne Burdet, Imperial College, London, UK

Title: Intention reading and intuitive shared control for mobility assistive devices

 

15:00-15:30

Naohisa Hashimoto, AIST, Japan

Title: Promoting independent mobility: Assistance mobility and evaluation technology in robotic wheelchair

 

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee Break

 

Session 4. Multimodal Sensory Processing and Human Identification

16:00-16:25

Petros Maragos, National Technical university of Athens, Greece

Title: Multimodal sensory processing for human action recognition in mobility assistive robotics

 

16:25-16:50

Ryad Chellali, Nanjing Robotics Institute – CEECS, China

Title: Measuring Human movements in the wild for HRI Contexts

 

16:50-17:15

Ko Ayusawa, CNRS-AIST JRL, Japan

Title: Identification of human body dynamics for evaluating assistive devices

 

Session 5: Application and Industrial Perspectives

17:15-17:35

Jonathan Kelly, University of Toronto, Institute for Aerospace Studies 

Title: Towards a Low-Cost Autonomous Wheelchair Navigation System Using COTS Components

 

17:35-17:55

Panagiotis Vartholomeos, Omega Technology, Greece 

Title: I-SUPPORT: ICT Supported Bath Robot

 

17:55-18:15

Batłomiej Stańczyk, ACCREA Engineering, Poland 

Title: Design and implementation of new robotic walker devices:

Lessons learned and SME perspectives

 

18:15-18:30

Discussion, Closing