Schedule
Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Room: HG F26.3
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9:00 - 9:15 Opening, Introduction by organizers
9:15 - 10:15 3x20min Paper presentations
- Gill Pratt (Olin College)
- Oussama Khatib (Artificial Intelligence Laboratory - Stanford University)
- Michael van Damme (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) - Safe Control of a Pneumatic Muscle Powered System
10:15 - 10:25 Questions and discussions related to first three talks
10:25 - 10:35 Introduction of poster presentations by organizers
10:35 - 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 - 11:10 Poster presentations
- Ronald Van Ham (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) - MACCEPA: The Mechanically Adjustable Compliance and Controllable Equilibrium Position Actuator
- Nicola Vitiello (ARTS Lab, Polo Sant'Anna Valdera, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy)- The NEURARM bio-inspired antagonistic joint: preliminary results on the Equilibrium Point Hypothesis position and stiffness control
- Sebastian Wolf (DLR/Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics)
- Edwin C. Dertien (University of Twente) - Very Versatile
Energy Efficient (V2E2) actuator: A concept for a new Energy Efficient Actuator
11:10 - 12:10 3x20min Paper presentations
- Koichi Koganezawa (Dep. of Mechanical Engineering, Tokai University) - ANLES (Actuator with Non-Linear Elastic System)
and its application to multi-DOF joint
- Koh Hosoda (Osaka University) - Contribution of Variable Compliance to Dynamic Bipedal Locomotion
- Jae-Bok Song (Korea University, Korea) - Variable Stiffness Actuation based on Dual Actuators Connected in Series and Parallel
12:10 - 12: 20 Questions and discussions related to the last three talks
12:20 - 13:00 Discussion panel (Topics are proposed by the organizers and collected from the audience during the day)
13:00 - Lunch
