Objectives:

Robotics for human-centric and wearable applications is a quickly-emerging research field with a wide range of potential applications. Technologies developed in humanoid robotics have been applied to domestic robots, social robots, human-robot interaction and wearable devices like prostheses and exoskeletons.

With the quick and widespread penetration of human-centered and wearable devices, demands on systematic understandings of the characterization, modeling, and performance quantification/prediction also quickly arise. This naturally results in rapidly-growing interests in the computational and intelligent aspects of robotic devices in general, towards human-centric and wearable applications.

This workshop gathers speakers of diverse expertise, from computational mechanics, to wearable robotics, artificial intelligence, and to ergonomics. By bringing together voices and wisdom of diverse disciplines, we hope to exchange ideas and stimulate sparkles, which would fruit into new frontiers and new insights of theory, analysis, experimentation plan, and potential applications.

Topics of interest (including but not limited to):

Modeling and intelligent control of robots for human-centric applications
Robotic devices for walking assistance
Intelligent materials for wearable applications
Soft robots for wearable applications
Wearable devices for elderly fall prevention
Wearable sensors
Human-robot interaction
Human motion analysis

Organizers:

Jia PAN

Assistant Professor, Dept Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering
City University of Hong Kong

Y6720, Academic 1, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong
jiapan@cityu.edu.hk

Chaoyang SONG

Assistant Professor, Dept Mechanical and Energy Engineering

Southern University of Science and Technology

Rm606, Blk7, Innovation Park, 1088 Xueyuan Road, Shenzhen, China

songcy@sustc.edu.cn

Yan HUANG

Research Assistant, Beijing Institute of Technology

Beijing, China

yanhuang@bit.edu.cn

Zheng WANG

Assistant Professor, Dept. Mechanical Engineering
The University of Hong Kong

719 Haking Wong Bldg, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China
zwangski@hku.hk

Jianshu will present soft gripper paper at ROBOSOFT conference in Italy, April