Program of 11th Dutch Belgian Haptics Network Meeting
Haptics and teleoperation research and development is performed by small groups at many different places in the Netherlands and in Belgium. The purpose of the network is to bring these people together, allow informal yet technical discussions and by so strengthening haptics research in our area. After the successful Eurohaptics Conference organized in Amsterdam, this meeting is a good opportunity to further consolidate the status of Dutch and Belgian haptics technology/research.
Keynote Speakers
- Prof. Y. Yokokohji (University of Kobe),
- Dr.ir. D. Abbink (Delft University),
Best Demo Award
Thanks to the sponsorship of Moog Inc. (www.moog.com), a prize of 500 EUR will be awarded to the BEST DEMO
Inscription
Of course also the 11th version of this bi-annual meeting is free of charge for participants.
In order to register, please send a simple email Gianni.Borghesan@mech.kuleuven.be, or Emmanuel.VanderPoorten@mech.kuleuven.be indicating attendance + bare contact details of participants, anywhere before 25 February.
Dates
- 25 January: Deadline for abstract submissions
- 7 February: Notification of acceptance
- 20 February : Deadline for demo submissions
- 25 February : Ending participation registration
- 8 March: Dutch Belgian Haptics Meeting
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Location
The workshop will take place in the "Assembly Hall of the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics at K.U.Leuven, Kasteelpark Arenberg 1, 3001 Heverlee, Belgium, which is located here and is close to the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering which is here.
Meeting Program
The abstracts of oral presentation can be found here.
A short demo description can be found here.
| 10.30 | Welcome | D. Reynaerts | K.U.Leuven |
| 10.35 | Keynote 1 Encountered-type haptic display --history and perspective | Y. Yokokohji | Kobe University |
| 11.05 | Teleoperation of a Robotic Steerable Needle for Percutaneous Interventions | C. López | T.U.Eindhoven |
| 11.25 | Transition Detection Applied to Needle Insertion into Soft Tissue | J. Janssens and M. Kinnaert | ULB |
| 11.45 | Robotically Steering Flexible Endoscopes for Notes | R. Reilink, S. Stramigioli, A.M.L. Kappers, and S. Misra | Twente and Utrecht |
| 12.05 | Towards Bilateral Teleoperation of a Standard Electrophysiology Catheter | G. Smoljkic | K.U. Leuven |
| 12.25 | Haptics at Group T | P. Goethals | Groep-T |
| 12.45 | Presentation By Maxon | Maxon Motor | |
| 12.55 | Lunch offered by Maxon Motor | ||
| 13.25 | Exposition of Demos | ||
| 14.30 | Keynote 2 | D. Abbink | T.U. Delft |
| 15.00 | Haptic Feedback for Wheelchair Navigation Assistance | E. Vander Poorten, E. Reekmans, e.a. | K.U. Leuven |
| 15.20 | Two Problems on Nonlinear Teleoperator Control: Ouput-feedback and Flexible Slave Dynamics | I. Sarras and M. Kinnaert | ULB |
| 15.40 | Frequency Domain Stability Analysis of Bilateral Teleoperation Systems | I. Polat | T.U.Delft |
| 16.00 | Combining Frequency-domain Passive Design Approaches and Time-domain Passivity Control | M. Franken, B. Willaert, S. Misra and S. Stramigioli | T.U.Twente |
| 16.20 | Exploiting iTaSC in Teleoperation | G. Borghesan | K.U. Leuven |
| 16.30 | Break | ||
| 16.50 | Port-based Telemanipulation Control of Underactuated Flying Vehicles | A. Y. Mersha, R. Carloni and S. Stramigioli | T.U. Twente |
| 17.10 | Haptic Guidance for rehabilitation of MS/stroke patients | T. De Weyer | Hasselt |
| 17.30 | Haptic technology for remote handling in nuclear fusion reactors | Jesse Scholtes | Oxford Technologies |
| 17.50 | Best Demo Award offered by MOOG Inc. | Moog Inc. | |
| 18.00 | Closure of the Meeting | G. Borghesan, and E. Vander Poorten | K.U.Leuven |
