M^3 Seminar 2013

25-28 February 2013

This is a joined seminar organized by following institutions:

Human Movement Simulation Lab, Universität Stuttgart (head: Syn Schmitt)
Lauflabor Locomotion Lab, TU Darmstadt (head: Andre Seyfarth)
Biomechantronic Systems, Fraunhofer IPA Stuttgart (head: Urs Schneider)
Intelligent Autonomous Systems, TU Darmstadt (head: Jan Peters)

This seminar is kindly supported by Jørgen Christian Larsen (University of Sourthern Denmark) who provides access to the Locokit Educational Robotic Toolkit, developed within the EU project Locomorph.

Programme

Monday 25.2.2013

location: Seminarraum IFS, Magdalenenstr. 27, TU Darmstadt

10:00 Opening / Seminar outline (Andre Seyfarth)
10:10 Input Talk 1 „The biological motor“ (Syn Schmitt) > shifted to Thursday
10:50 Break
11:10 Input Talk 2 „What is a perfect foot“ (Urs Schneider)
11:50 Input Talk 3 „From walking to running“ (Andre Seyfarth)
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Input Talk 4 „Motor learning in man and machine“ (Jan Peters)
14:40 Input Talk 5 „LocoKit - A educational robotic toolkit“ (Jørgen Christian Larsen, University of Sourthern Denmark)
15:20 Break
15:40 Brainstorming for topics (all)
16:10 Group building (all)
16:45 Closing remarks (Andre Seyfarth)

Tuesday and Wednesday 26./27.2.2013

group specific location: IFS TU Darmstadt and/or Stuttgart

10:00-17:00 Individual group work

Thursday 28.2.2013

location: IPA Stuttgart, Gebäude A, Ebene 2, Seminarräume 1-3

10:00 Preparation of group presentations

14:00 Final presentations, Introduction (Andre Seyfarth)
14:10 Input talk 1 „The biological motor“ (Syn Schmitt)
14:40 Presentation Group A (20min + 10 min discussion)
15:10 Presentation Group B (20min + 10 min discussion)
15:40 Presentation Group C (20min + 10 min discussion)
16:10 Feedback on the Seminar
16:30 Closing remarks (Andre Seyfarth)

Groups A, B and C

A : Control of Arm and Leg Muscle

(Phillip, Simon, Tanja, Johannes, Christian)
Outline Group A

B : Bipedal robot with LocoKit

(Maziar, Dario, Aida, Jorgen)
Outline Group B

C : Serial elastic actuator with parallel spring

(Alexandra, Mahdy, Martin)
Outline Group C

Downloads

General Info on the Seminar

Input Talks

U. Schneider: What is a perfect foot?
A. Seyfarth: From walking to running
J. Peters: Motor learning in man and machine
S. Schmitt: The biological motor

Here you can download the presentation slides:

Project Presentations

Group A: Control of leg muscles
Group B: Building Biped Robots with LocoKit
Group C: What is a good actuator?

Module Info

IFS TU Darmstadt: This seminar is part of Module 03-04-0576 Sensor-basierte Analyse- und Simulationssysteme