[robotics-worldwide] RO-MAN08 WS on Skills Capture and Transfer, August 1

[Emanuele Ruffaldi]

Skills Capture and Transfer
RO-MAN08 Workshop
Friday, August 1, 2008
 
ORGANIZERS
Carlo Alberto Avizzano (PERCRO-Scuola Superiore S.Anna,Italy)
Emanuele Ruffaldi (PERCRO-Scuola Superiore S.Anna,Italy)
Carsten Preusche (DLR,Germany)

ABSTRACT
Multimodal Skills Capture and Transfer is a challenging topic of 
research that is aimed to analyze and transfer the skilled component of 
human activities with the use of multimodal technologies. This field 
requires the contribution of researches from neuroscience, 
psychophysics, capturing technologies and rendering technologies. It 
ranges from the multimodal capture of a human task, the analysis of the 
task in terms of skills, to the rendering of the skill using human 
modalities, e.g. through haptic interfaces and advanced visualization 
techniques. At the same time the data acquired in real time is processed 
by machine learning algorithms for the identification of performance, 
comparing the user with an existing database of skilled user, producing 
as an outcome the required stimuli for improving the user task.

OBJECTIVE
Present the current research in the area with particular focus on the 
use of Multimodal technologies for capturing and transfer. In addition this
event introduces the research carried on in the EU funded SKILLS IP  
http://www.skills-ip.eu/.

SCHEDULE
All speakers are confirmed, titles are subject to change.

Time    Title   Speaker
14:00   14:20   Introduction to SKILLS Project. Carlo Alberto Avizzano 
(PERCRO-SSSA)

Modelling and Analysis of Skills
14:20   14:50   Fundamental of Skills in terms of Human Model and 
Psychophysics. Benoit Bardy (UM1)
14:50   15:20   Motor influences on visual action perception. Tonino 
Casile (Tubingen University)

Capturing and Representing Skills
15:20   15:50   Mathematical modelling of skills. Emanuele Ruffaldi (PERCRO)
15:50   16:20   EMG-Capturing of Position and Force. Patrick van der 
Smagt (DLR)
16:20   16:40   Break

Rendering of Skills
16:40   17:10   TBA. Chris Jansen (TNO)
17:10   17:40   Skills Rendering and Augmented Reality. Didier Stricker 
(Univ.Kaiserslautern-FhG)

Applications of the SKILLS Project
17:40   18:05   Overview of the Demonstration Activities. Carsten 
Preusche (DLR)
18:05   18:15   Closing Comments and Discussion. Carlo Alberto Avizzano 
(PERCRO-SSSA)


REGISTRATION
You can register for the workshop through the main conference registration
site at http://www.lsr.ei.tum.de/ro-man2008/

More information about this event can be found at the workshop website at:
http://www.skills-ip.eu/events/roman08/

-- 
Emanuele Ruffaldi
Assistant Professor in Applied Mechanics - PhD
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna di Pisa
PERCRO Lab - Virtual Reality and 
Telerobotic Systems Division
via Martiri 11
56100 Pisa - ITALY
Tel.: +39 050 838 980
Fax.: +39 050 883 333
E-mail: emanuele.ruffaldi at sssup.it 
Web: http://www.teslacore.it