Talks
IROS 2019 - Macau, China
Assuring Safety for Physically Assistive Robots Workshop- Talks -
Invited Speakers
Dr. Richard HawkinsUniversity of York, UK
Title: A Body of Knowledge for the Safety Assurance of Robotic and Autonomous Systems
11:30 - 11:50 Monday, 4th November
Bio: Richard Hawkins is a Senior Research Fellow in the Assuring Autonomy International Programme, where he is investigating the safety assurance and regulation of autonomous systems in a wide range of critical applications.
Prior to joining the Programme he was a Lecturer in the High Integrity Systems Engineering (HISE) research group at the University of York where his research focused on the safety and assurance of software systems and the development of assurance cases. He previously worked as a Software Safety Engineer for BAE Systems and as a safety adviser in the nuclear industry.
Professor Jee-hwan RyuKorea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea
Title: Passivity-based Control Approaches for Assuring Safe Physical Human-Robot Interaction
11:50 - 12:10 Monday, 4th November
Bio: Dr. Jee-Hwan Ryu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). He received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Inha University, South Korea, in 1995, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from KAIST, South Korea, in 1997 and 2002, respectively.
From 2002 to 2003, he worked as a post-doc researcher in the department of electrical engineering at the University of Washington, and at the similar time, he was also affiliated with the institute of robotics and mechatronics in DLR as a visiting scientist. He joined KAIST in 2019 as an associate professor. Prior to that, he was a professor in the department of mechanical engineering at KOREATECH (2005-2019), and a research professor in the department of electrical engineering at KAIST (2003-2005). His research interests include haptics, telerobotics, exoskeletons, and autonomous vehicles.
He has received several awards including IEEE Most Active Technical Committee Award as a Co-chair of TC Haptics in 2015, Best poster award in 2010 IEEE Haptic Symposium. He has been served as an Associate Editor in IEEE Transactions on Haptics, and since 2017, he has been serving as an Associate Editor-in-chief in World Haptics Conference. He was involved in many international conference organizations, and especially, he has been served as a general chair of AsiaHaptics2018.
Professor Filippo CavalloBioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
Title: Dependable physical assistive robots for rehabilitation in walking tasks
12:10 - 12:30 Monday, 4th November
Bio: Filippo Cavallo, MScEE, Phd in Bioengineering, is the scientist responsible for the Assistive Robotics Lab of the BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy. He is currently leading a group of 16 people, which includes PhD Students, Post Doctorate and assistant researchers. The objectives of this lab are to promote and evaluate novel service robotics for active and healthy ageing, to identify and validate disruptive healthcare paradigms for neurodegenerative and chronic diseases, focusing on prevention and support for physical and cognitive declines, to optimize the management of working life for improving efficiency, security and QoL of workers in industrial settings. The main technological challenges concern social robotics, human robot interaction, wearable sensors, Internet of Things and artificial intelligence for robot companion and healthcare applications.
He has participated in various National and European projects and is author of various papers on conferences and ISI journals.
Dr. Gabriel Lopes and Charlotte Le CoutreRRC Robotics, Netherlands
RRC Robotics, Netherlands
Title: Design and Development of the LEA walker – Addressing Sensing, Reliability and Regulatory Processes
16:10 - 16:30 Monday, 4th November
Bio: Dr. Gabriel A.D. Lopes is the principal scientist at RRC Robotics, Netherlands. He received a “Licenciatura” degree in Aerospace Engineering at the Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa, Portugal and MSc and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Michigan, USA. From 2009 to 2016, Dr. Lopes was an Assistant Professor at the Delft Center for Systems and Control, Delft University of Technology, NL.
His interests include robotics, dynamical systems, nonlinear control, machine learning, software architectures, and many other topics. Dr. Lopes is responsible for the high-level software architecture development of the LEA robot, where user safety, robustness and correct-by-design approaches are applied.
Bio: MSc. Ir. Charlotte Le Coultre is the Lead Navigation & Control Engineer at RRCRobotics. She has a BSc and MSc from the Delft Center for Systems and Control at the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands.
Her interests include control theory with applications to mobile robotics, unmanned aerial vehicles, indoor ground vehicles, and self-driving cars. Charlotte is responsible for motion control (including, walking, dancing, exercises, low level control, and navigation), robot-side user interface, and the behaviour logic.
Accepted Talks
To be announced on the 16th of September 2019
Abstracts will be available on the 7th of October 2019
