STIFF/VIACTORS Summer School on Impedance

This is a Summer School on Impedance devoted to human and robotic impedance. It has been jointly organised by the EU FP7 research projects STIFF and VIACTORS. Also check out the related EC project The Hand Embodied.

Dates: July 25-29, 2011

Venue: Frauenchiemsee, Bavaria, Germany

Keynote speakers:
Alin Albu-Schäffer, DLR
Antonio Bicchi, U. Pisa
Etienne Burdet, Imperial
Neville Hogan, MIT
Oussama Khatib, Stanford
Gerald Loeb, USC
Joseph McIntyre, UPD-CNRS
Patrick van der Smagt, DLR
Sethu Vijayakumar, Edinburgh

Audience: Ph.D. students, postdocs, and senior researchers working on robot control, neuroscience, and biophysics.

Contact

Please contact us if you have questions, remarks, etc. about our summer school.

General chair:
Patrick van der smagt(at)dlr.de

Program chair:
claudio.castellini(at)dlr.de

Organisation chair:
hannes.hoeppner(at)dlr.de

Demonstration chairs:
florian.petit(at)dlr.de
joern.vogel(at)dlr.de

Registration chair:
monika.klauer(at)dlr.de

artificial DLR arm and hand; artificial hand squeezes STIFF

artificial DLR hand holding a wine bottle