Fall’24 | Two-Day In-person Workshop
Wearable Robotics: Enhancing Mobility and Autonomy for all Ages
Dr. Francesco Travascio
Associate Professor, College of Engineering, University of Miami, Florida, US
Dr. Siddharth Bhardwaj
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore, India
Dr. Andrej Olenšek
Researcher, University Rehabilitation Institute Soča, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Dr. Teja Krishna Mamidi
Postdoctoral Fellow, Mechanical Engineering, IIT Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
Dr. Matjaž Zadravec
Researcher, University Rehabilitation Institute Soča, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Dr. Ashish Singla
Associate Professor, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, Punjab, India
Dr. Vineet Vashista
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, IIT Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
Past Events
Fall’23 | One Day In-person Workshop
MEDFUSE: Medicine, Engineering, & Data Fusion for Health
AIR 2023 | One Day In-person Workshop
Rehabilitation Robotics and Assistive Technologies
Fall’22 | Two Days In-person Workshop
Redundantly actuated robots and their human-centered applications
Speakers
Dr. Anurag Purwar
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY
Dr. Asokan Thondiyath
Professor & HOD
Department of Engineering Design, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras
Dr. Asitava Ghosal
Dr. Subir K. Saha
Dr. Suril V. Shah
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Jodhpur
Dr. Vineet Vashista
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering, Center for Cognitive Science, & Bio-medical Center, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Gandhinagar
N S S Sanjeevi
Ph.D. Scholar
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Gandhinagar
Spring’21 | Webinar Series
Robotics for Rehabilitation and Elderly Care
With the increase in life expectancy and the prevalence of chronic diseases, the disability rate is on rise. The health care system is required to be flexible enough to meet the growing challenges in terms of the increasing number of patients, more chronic diseases, rising cost and skill shortages. To meet this challenge, the health care system is evolving by drawing advantages from advances in information technology, engineering and bioinformatics to provide an agile health system in diagnosis, treatment and management.
This webinar series brings experts from medical, social science, and engineering domains to contemplate the benefits and limitations of such intervention in the assessment and monitoring of disabled and elderly health. The focus of this online series is to update with the current understanding and state of the art research work on Robotics for Rehabilitation and Elderly Care. The online series will cover a variety of topics by eminent researchers around the globe on Biomechanics, dynamics of human-robot cooperation, human movement control, movement disorders, rehabilitation strategies, robotic exoskeletons, dynamics, control and optimization.
Webinar 1 : Robotics to Characterize and Retore Human Movement <Click to Watch>
Speaker : Prof. Sunil Agrawal, Professor, Columbia University, USA
Sunil K. Agrawal received a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University in 1990. He is currently a Professor and Director of Robotics and Rehabilitation (ROAR) Laboratory at Columbia University, located both in engineering and medical campuses of Columbia University. Dr. Agrawal has published more than 500 journal and conference papers, three books, and 17 U.S. patents. He is a Fellow of the ASME and AIMBE. His honors include a NSF Presidential Faculty Fellowship from the White House in 1994, a Bessel Prize from Germany in 2003, and a Humboldt US Senior Scientist Award in 2007. He is a recipient of 2016 Machine Design Award from ASME for “seminal contributions to design of robotic exoskeletons for gait training of stroke patients” and 2016 Mechanisms and Robotics Award from the ASME for “cumulative contributions and being an international leading figure in mechanical design and robotics”. He is a recipient of several Best Paper awards in ASME and IEEE sponsored robotics conferences. He has also held international visiting positions that include Technical University of Stuttgart, Hanyang University in Korea, University of Ulster in Northern Ireland, Biorobotics Institute of SSSA in Pisa, Peking University in China. He has successfully directed 30 PhD student theses and currently supervises the research of 10 PhD students at ROAR laboratory. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal “Wearable Technologies” from Cambridge University Press. He was the Conference Chair for IEEE BioRob2020 in New York City held at end of Nov 2020.
Webinar 2 : Harmony Exoskeleton : A Journey from Robotics Lab to Stroke Patients <Click to Watch>
Speaker : Prof. Ashish D. Deshpande, Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Ashish D. Deshpande is passionate about helping stroke patients recover from their disabilities and he believes robots could serve as important tools in the recovery process. He is a faculty member in Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, where he directs the ReNeu Robotics Lab. His work focuses on the study of human system and design of robotic systems toward the goals accelerating recovery after a neurological injury (e.g. stroke and spinal cord injury), improving the quality of lives of those living disabilities (e.g. amputation) and enhancing lives and productivity of workers, soldiers and astronauts. Specifically, his group has designed two novel exoskeletons for delivering engaging and subject-specific training for neuro-recovery of upper-body movements after stroke and spinal cord injury. Dr. Deshpande is a co-founder of Harmonic Bionics whose mission is to improve rehabilitation outcomes for the stroke patients.
Webinar 3 : Robotics for assesement and training of dynamic balancing during walking <Click to Watch>
Speaker : Prof. Zlatko Matjači , Professor of Biomechanics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Head of R and D Unit, University Rehabilitation Institute, Republic of Slovenia
Zlatko Matjačić obtained PhD in electrical engineering from University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Currently, he is the Head of Research and Development Unit at University Rehabilitation Institute, Republic of Slovenia. He is also a Full Professor of Biomechanics at University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. From 1998 to 2001 he was with Center for Sensory-Motor Interaction, Aalborg University, Denmark. His research interests include human motion analysis and synthesis, biomechanics, and rehabilitation robotics. He has leaded several national and international research projects related to rehabilitation of movement. He holds eleven international patents, two of them were commercialized as standing balance training device “Balance Trainer” and walking balance training device “E-go” (www.thera-trainer.de). His group has in the last decade developed several rehabilitation robots for neurorehabilitation of goal-directed upper extremity movement and for neurorehabilitation of walking. The work of his research group is strongly oriented into transfer of basic science into viable practical approaches and devices with the view of deployment in clinical practice. Dr. Matjačić received “The Jožef Stefan Golden Emblem Award” for outstanding contributions made to science in doctoral thesis (2000) as well as prestigious Slovenian national “Puh Award” for excellence in transferring new scientific findings into innovative products (2012).
Webinar 4 : Design and control of hand and leg exoskeletons for nueo-rehabilitation of stroke patients <Click to Watch>
Speaker : Prof. Ashish Dutta, JagMohan Chair Professor in Mechanical Engineering,
Dean of Digital Infrastructure and Automation, IIT Kanpur, India
Prof. Ashish Dutta obtained his PhD in Systems Engineering from Akita University, Japan, M.Tech from Jadavpur University and B.Tech from NIT Calicut. From 1994 to 2000 he was with the Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Mumbai where he worked on telemanipulator design and control for nuclear applications. Since 2002 he is with IIT Kanpur, where he is currently the Jag Mohan Chair Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Dean of Digital Infrastructure and Automation. He was also a visiting professor in Nagoya University, Japan in 2006 and is currently a visiting professor at Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan. His research interests are in the areas of humanoid robotics, motion planning in 3D, intelligent control systems and rehabilitation engineering. He has over 100 publications in various international journals, conferences, book chapters, books, etc. Prof. Dutta has also served as member of advisory board of ISRO Chandrayan II Lunar mission (2009), member of Bureau of Indian Standards, Task force on AI of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry (2017-), Secretary of The Robotics Society (India) 2011-2017, etc.
Nicola Vitiello is Associate Professor with The BioRobotics Institute (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, SSSA, Pisa, Italy) where he leads the Wearable Robotics Laboratory. He is co-author of more than 80 ISI/Scopus papers and co-inventor of more than 20 patents/patent applications. He served as the Scientific Secretary of the EU FP7 CA-RoboCom project, and he was the scientific coordinator of the EU FP7 CYBERLEGs project. Currently he is the scientific coordinator of the H2020-ICT-CYBERLEGs Plus Plus project, the national project MOTU funded by INAIL and is partner of the H2020-ICT-REHYB and H2020-ICT-CONBOTS projects. He is co-founder, director and advisor of IUVO Srl, a spin-off company of SSSA.