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CBET Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems |
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| Initial Amendment Date: | January 5, 2018 |
| Latest Amendment Date: | January 5, 2018 |
| Award Number: | 1746448 |
| Award Instrument: | Standard Grant |
| Program Manager: |
Aleksandr Simonian
asimonia@nsf.gov (703)292-2191 CBET Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems ENG Directorate for Engineering |
| Start Date: | January 1, 2018 |
| End Date: | December 31, 2019 (Estimated) |
| Total Intended Award Amount: | $10,000.00 |
| Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $10,000.00 |
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1 UTSA CIR SAN ANTONIO TX US 78249-1644 (210)458-4340 |
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One UTSA Circle San Antonio TX US 78249-1644 |
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| NSF Program(s): | Disability & Rehab Engineering |
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| Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.041 |
ABSTRACT
Assistive robotics are increasingly an area of societal interest as the population ages and individuals with disabilities seek to maintain as much independence as possible. However, robotic systems were initially designed to replace humans in hazardous situations, not interact with them. Assistive robotics, by design, will interact with humans, and this poses new challenges that must be addressed related to the user interface and safety. In order to insure the safety of users and encourage average citizens to use of assistive robots, research is needed into how to develop, manufacture, and control robots that are designed to interact with individuals on a daily basis and in a home environment. This conference award will provide support for the 2018 Workshop on Human-Friendly Robotics at the University of Texas, San Antonio in September 2018. This is the first time that this workshop, held annually in Europe since 2008, will be held in the United States. The focus of the workshop is on identifying the scientific and technological challenges that exist related to safely and effectively integrating robots into our daily lives, particularly in the area of rehabilitation and assistive technology.
This award will provide financial support for nine invited speakers, internationally renowned, to attend the workshop and lead the discussions. The discussions will be focused on identifying the current state of the art and the key unresolved problems and challenges that need to be addressed through research. The presentations and follow-on discussions will be archived and made available to the public. A second goal of the workshop is to catalyze collaborations among researchers, both within the US and with international partners, to further advance this area of engineering. Finally, by hosting the workshop on the campus of a minority-serving institution, the organizers hope to include many underrepresented students in the workshop and use the results of the workshop to excite K12 students regarding opportunities in STEM.
PROJECT OUTCOMES REPORT
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Human-Friendly Robots Workshop
Day 1
1- Breakfast (7:30-7:50)
2- Welcome message by Amir Jafari (7:50-8:00)
3- Making Exoskeletons Friendly to People After Stroke by Prof. James Sulzer, The University of Texas at Austin, (8:00-9:00)
4- Emerging Technologies Enabling Advanced Manufacturing Robotics Solutions by Prof. Paul Evans, Southwest Research Institute, (9:00-10:00)
5- Humans with Amputation Using Friendly Robots to Restore Movement by Prof. Lee Childers, Brooke Army Medical Center, (10:00-11:00)
6- Robotics to Restore and Retrain Human Movements by Prof. Sunil Agrawal, Columbia University, (11:00-12:00)
7- Lunch (12:00-12:30)
8- Development and Control of Compliant Upper-limb Exoskeletons for Rehabilitation by
Prof. Rana Soltani, University of Texas A&M, (12:30-13:30)
9- Developing Human-Centric Models for Adaptive Surgical Robots by Prof. Ann Majewicz,
University of Texas at Dallas, (13:30-14:30)
10- Computational Human Body Modeling and Markerless Motion Capture by Prof. Dan
Nicolella, Southwest Research Institute, (14:30-15:30)
11- Rehabilitation Robotic Systems for Learning from and Collaborating with Therapists
by Prof. Mahdi Tavakoli, University of Alberta, (15:30-16:30)
Day 2
1- Breakfast (7:30-8:00)
2- Decentralized Control Algorithms for Cooperative Legged Locomotion: A Hybrid Systems Approach by Prof. Kaveh Akbari, Virginia Tech., (8:00-9:00)
3- Human Robot Interaction for Rehabilitation by Prof. Pilwon Hur, University of Texas A&M, (9:00-10:00)
4- Toru to SwRI (10:00-12:30)
Last Modified: 01/02/2020
Modified by: Amir Jafari
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