supported by
the STIFF
EC project		 STIFF/VIACTORS Summer School on Impedance supported by
the VIACTORS
EC project
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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.

 Kloster

 

Our keynotes speakers gave extensive tutorials on their field of research, including but not restricted to their own work.
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Keynotes / Tutorials

The following keynote speakers  formed the major part of the Summer School programme:

artificial DLR arm and hand; artificial hand squeezes STIFF
artificial DLR hand holding a wine bottle