SPS-ASI Webinar: Socio-Physically Interactive Mobile Collaborative Robots
Date: 30 March 2023
Time: 8:00 AM PST | 5:00 PM (CEST)
Presenter(s): Arash Ajoudani
The ASI Webinar Series is an event initiated by the Autonomous System Initiative (ASI) of the IEEE Signal Processing (SP) Society. The goal is to offer the SP community with free webinars looking into the future of autonomous systems. These monthly webinars are hosted on Zoom, with recordings made available in the IEEE ASI’s YouTube channel following the live events.
Biography
Arash Ajoudani is the director of the Human-Robot Interfaces and Interaction (HRI²) laboratory at IIT. He also coordinates the Robotics for Manufacturing (R4M) lab of the Leonardo labs, and is a principal investigator of the IIT-Intellimech JOiiNT lab. He received his PhD degree in Robotics and Automation from University of Pisa and IIT in 2014.
He is a recipient of the European Research Council (ERC) starting grant 2019 (Ergo-Lean), the coordinator of the Horizon-2020 project SOPHIA, the co-coordinator of the Horizon-2020 project CONCERT, and a principal investigator of the HORIZON-MSCA project RAICAM. He is a recipient of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) Early Career Award 2021, and winner of the Amazon Research Awards 2019, of the Solution Award 2019 (MECSPE2019), of the KUKA Innovation Award 2018, of the WeRob best poster award 2018, and of the best student paper award at ROBIO 2013. His PhD thesis was a finalist for the Georges Giralt PhD award 2015 - best European PhD thesis in robotics. He was also a finalist for the best paper award on mobile manipulation at IROS 2022, the best paper award at Humanoids 2022 (oral category), the Solution Award 2020 (MECSPE2020), the best conference paper award at Humanoids 2018, the best interactive paper award at Humanoids 2016, the best oral presentation award at Automatica (SIDRA) 2014, and for the best manipulation paper award at ICRA 2012.
He is the author of the book "Transferring Human Impedance Regulation Skills to Robots" in the Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (STAR), and several publications in journals, international conferences, and book chapters. He is currently serving as an elected IEEE RAS AdCom member (2022-2024), and as chair and representative of the IEEE-RAS Young Professionals Committee. He has been serving as a member of scientific advisory committee and as an associate editor for several international journals and conferences such as IEEE RAL, ICRA, IROS, ICORR, etc. He is a scholar of the European Lab for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS). His main research interests are in physical human-robot interaction, mobile manipulation, robust and adaptive control, assistive robotics, and tele-robotics.
Abstract
This talk will give an overview of the recent developments at Human-Robot Interfaces and Interaction (HRI²) laboratory of IIT, with focus on learning and control of human-robot interaction. In particular, the interaction between humans and mobile collaborative robots, which provide a better flexibility and larger workspace, will be discussed. The interaction aspects will include both physical and social factors, introducing the concept of socio-physical interaction.
