Wearable Robotics, IEEE Robotics and Automation Technical Committee on
The IEEE/RAS Technical Committee (TC) on wearable robotics provides a platform for practitioners and researchers to exchange information and resources related to the fields of wearable robots to augment human movement abilities in several sectors, from the enhancement of workforce to movement rehabilitation and motion assistance for disabled and elderly/weak people as well as healthy ones.
The TC seeks to gather researchers within the RAS community from different backgrounds to discuss and learn about this highly interdisciplinary field (safety, ergonomics, lightweight efficient actuation, control, autonomy, human-machine interaction, soft robotics, wearable sensors, textile and apparel design, material science). This TC provides discussions about the state of the art, challenges and limiting factors for developing sustainable wearable robots for assistance, augmentation and rehabilitation of human movements in real-life scenarios. It highlights particularly issues related to novel kinematics and actuation solutions for wearable robots as well as the growing challenges of using novel human-robot multimodal interaction paradigms. Issues related to cognitive/physical human robot interactions, are also treated.
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