WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT (CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS) IEEE ICRA'09 Brain Machine Interfaces for Neuroprostheses and Robot Control
The full-day workshop will be held at ICRA 2009 in Kobe (Japan), on May 12thwithin the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation May 12-17th . The workshop has already a list of confirmed speakers (see below) and this call for extended abstracts and participation will be used to add new speakers to the list and to organize a poster session. WEBPAGE: http://webdiis.unizar.es/~jminguez/webICRA09/<http://webdiis.unizar.es/%7Ejminguez/webICRA09/> ---------------------------------------------------------- GOAL AND SCOPE Brain-Machine Interfaces encompass a growing and increasing community that merges researchers and industry with the objective of creating applications and solutions to ameliorate the quality of life of human beings. This challenging research area involves a tight cooperation of neuroscience, computer science, and biomedical engineering among others. With the understanding of the human brain and the rapid development of the instrumentation, signal processing and machine learning; brain machine interfaces are reaching real rehabilitation applications that require robotics developments. The neurocontrol of devices is certainly an interesting and promising research area that is only at the beginning of scientific and practical exploration. In response to this growing interest in neurosignal actuated devices, several initiatives are starting to pave the path toward a full series of neurodevices. Researchers are investigating the neural correlates concerning the human perception and motion to create a direct interface between the brain and a prosthetic device, in virtually, the same way that we humans proceed. Other researches are applying brain machine learning technology to directly interact with autonomous mobile robots in applications like intelligent wheelchairs or teleoperation between remote scenarios. The objective of this workshop is two-folded. On the one hand, the intention is to gather researchers working in different areas of brain computer interfaces in order to give a broad panorama of the recent technological advances. On the other hand, the workshop will address researchers working in applications of brain machine control relevant for the robotics community. More precisely, the aims of this workshop include: • To bring together researchers from multidisciplinary fields, so as to focus on the different aspects of the brain computer interfaces and their applications to robotics, and therefore being novel and complimentary to previous related workshops, which had a broader scope. • To give a panorama to the robotics community of the basic technologies on brain computer interfaces. • To discuss novel applications of neurocontrol such as neuroprostheses, brain actuated wheelchairs and brain teleoperated robots with the brain computer interface community to seek for fundamental solutions. • To evaluate different experimental designs for brain-robot interaction in the assistive context. • To provide a general overview of the critical issues and key points in building brain-machine devices and assistive applications and providing indications for further directions and developments in the field, based on the current diverse expertise of the participants. ---------------------------------------------------------- LIST OF CONFIRMED SPEAKERS - Prof. José del R. Millán, PhD. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. - Prof. Christa Neuper, PhD. TU-Graz. Austria. - Carmen Vidaurre, PhD. TU-Berlin. Germany. - Reinhold Scherer, PhD. University of Washington. USA - Gernot Müller-Putz, PhD. TU-Graz. Austria. - Silvestro Micera, PhD. Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna. Italy - Prof. Fivos Panetsos, PhD. Universidad Complutense Madrid. Spain - José Carmena, PhD. Universidad de Berkeley. USA - Prof. Andy Schwartz, PhD. U. Pittsburg. USA - Jun Morimoto, PhD (Prof. Dr. Mitsuo Kawato, PhD). ATR Japan. - Ander Ramos, MSc. Fatronik and University of Tubingen. Germany. - Prof. Axel Gräser, PhD. U. Bremen. Germany. - Prof. John Donogue, PhD. Cyberkinetics. USA - Javier Minguez, PhD. University of Zaragoza. Spain - Rajesh P. N. Rao, PhD. University of Washington. USA ---------------------------------------------------------- ABSTRACT SUBMISSION Extended Abstracts should be submitted by email to [email protected] . The abstract submission should include: * Title * List of authors and affiliations * Abstract of 500-800 words * References to your own related work * Relevant web links Important dates: - February 7st, 2009 Deadline for submission extended abstract, - February 14th, 2009 Notification of type of acceptance (talk of poster) - February 26th, 2009 Deadline for submission of final contributions - May 12th, 2009 Workshop ---------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZERS: Javier Minguez, PhD. Universidad Zaragoza. Spain Carmen Vidaurre, PhD. TU-Berlin. Germany Ander Ramos, MSc. University of Tubingüen. Germany; Fatronik, Spain Prof. José del R. Millán, PhD . Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. Prof. Klaus Robert Müller, PhD. TU-Berlin. Germany Prof. Niels Birbaumer, PhD. University of Tubingüen. Germnay -- -- Javier Minguez Dpto de Infomatica e Ingenieria de Sistemas Universidad de Zaragoza Spain
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