Chair of Autonomous Systems and Mechatronics
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Autonomous and mechatronic systems are entering our daily lives and get into increasingly right interaction with us. Our mission at ASM is to research human-centered mechatronics and robotics striving for solutions that provide the desired performance along with user-friendly interaction characteristics. We put emphasis on wearable systems such as prostheses or exoskeletons, cognitive systems such as collaborative or humanoid robots, and generally on tasks with close human-robot interaction. Beyond examining mechatronic components and controls, such scenarios crucially demand considering human factors to meet user requirements and achieve synergetic interfacing and interaction of humans and machines.
Adna Bliek received the Frauen-MINT-Award by Deutsche Telekom in the field of Artificial Intelligence for her Master's Thesis "Backchanneling in Human-Robot Interaction". In her thesis, she investigated how the robot's behavior as a speaker influences the backchanneling behavior of a human listener.... Continue
Springer just published the book "Human-Robot Body Experience" by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Philipp Beckerle on the relations between human body experience and assistive robotic devices. It provides fundamental knowledge on bolidy experience, discusses human-in-the-loop experiments to improve our understanding... Continue
We offer a postdoc position (TV-L 13) in research & teaching. Join our interdisciplinary team to develop unified models of physical and cognitive human-robot interaction in a project with TU Berlin and Univ. Tubingen.
Position profile:
Research in autonomous systems focusing on cognitive... Continue
Together with Nele Rußwinkel (TU Berlin) and Daniel Häufle (Univ. Tübingen), our chair is very glad to receive support by Volkswagenstiftung for our joint project:
"Integrated models of cognitive and physical human-robot interaction"
Within the "Change of Course" initiative, we aim to explore ... Continue
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Philipp Beckerle gave a seminar on "Empirical Research Methods" at SIRSLab of the University of Siena.
In an interactive Zoom format, we had interesting discussions about how to design insightful user research to be applied in the engineering design of human-machine interfaces.
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