1. Prof. Bettina Wollesen, University of Hamburg, Institute of Human Movement Science, Germany Title: Cognitive-motor interference while using an exoskeleton Exoskeletons, which are coupled with selected user’ body regions, increasingly capture various fields of applications in industrial settings. Next to the morphological structure, the support characteristics (e.g., movement- and position-dependent) are highly relevant for precise movements […]
Speakers Eric Feron, BrIAS – OHME Resident Artist (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia) Ariadne, a common-sense thread for enabling provable safety in air mobility systems with unreliable components Sharath Akkaladevi, BrIAS Fellow (Profactor GmbH, Austria) Towards Sustainable Robotics: Intuitive Interfaces and Physical Collaboration in Human-Robot Interaction Dewi Brunet, BrIAS – OHME […]
General Chair : Prof. Bram Vanderborght (VUB) Program Chair: Dr. Michel Joop van der Schoor (FARI/VUB), Dr. Fatma Demir (VUB) Description Robots are becoming an integral part of our economy, society and planet, assisting us in various tasks. However, the rapid growth in robotics usage has also given rise to relevant concerns regarding sustainability. At present, urgent […]
Speakers Eduardo Camacho, BrIAS Fellow (University of Seville, Spain) Model Predictive Control of Solar Energy Plants Arjen Van de Walle (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Exploring the interlinkage between robotics, digitalisation and sustainability Naveen Tiwari, Junior BrIAS Fellow (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain) Self-healing materials for Soft electronics
Speakers Andrés Cotorruelo, Junior BrIAS Fellow (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) Sets for Constrained Control Bernardo Innocenti (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) Evidence in Innovation in the field of Orthopaedics - How an engineer can help a surgeon to apply and t the new tools Alix Partridge, Junior BrIAS Fellow (National Robotarium, UK) […]
Speakers Stefan Gerth, BrIAS Fellow (Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, Germany) Automation in X-ray based plant phenotyping - From Plant to data Fabrizio Dabbene, BrIAS Fellow (CNR - IEIIT, Italy) Tworthy and reliable AI - Scalable classifiers and conformal predictions AJung Moon, BrIAS Fellow (McGill University, Canada) Sustainable ‘Relationship’ with Interactive Robots […]
General Chair : Prof. An Jacobs (VUB), Program Chair: Dr. Shirley Elprama (VUB) Program Committee members: prof. dr. An Jacobs, dr. Shirley Elprama, prof. dr. Bernardo Innocenti, Kristóf Takács Description "How do we collaborate in a sustainable way with robotics in the future?” is the core topic of the field of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). As part of […]
At the reception of War, Peace, and Robots forum, pianist Simon Vaskou regaled the audience with a 45 minute recital programme on the theme of the forum. The concert served as a moment not only for our participants to unwind and relax from the intense first day of the forum, but to take a moment […]
General Chairs : Emanuele Garone (ULB), Mauro Birattari (ULB) Program Chair: Geert De Cubber (RMA) Logistics Chair: Anja Garone (VUB) Members of the Program Committee : A. Vande Wouver (UMons), A. Cotorruelo (ULB), J. Thumfart (VUB). Description The first day will focus on “Peace” and in particular how robotics can help to “clear up” remnants […]
Speaker Andrea Roli, BrIAS Fellow (Università di Bologna, Italy) A cybernetic perspective of adaptive robots
Speaker Hiroki Ishizuka (Osaka University, Japan) Toward the Realization of Sensing Mimicking Skin-Nerve Models
The opening ceremony for the BrIAS 2025 programme on Sustainable Robotics, AI and Automation. Speakers Welcome Marius Gilbert, Vice-rector of research and valorization (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) Pieter Ballon, Vice-rector of research (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) Frank Deconinck, BrIAS co-director (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) Serge Jaumain, BrIAS co-director (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) Introduction […]