RoboAssist 2013 - Symposium on Wearable Robotics for Motion Assistance and Rehabilitation - RoboAssist 2013

This special session aims to gather researchers from different backgrounds to discuss and learn about this highly interdisciplinary field. The accepted papers will provide discussions about the state of the art, challenges and limiting factors for developing sustainable wearable robots for assistive and rehabilitation of human movements. The proposed session will include papers that highlight particularly issues related to novel kinematics and actuation solutions for wearable robots. The invited papers will deal with the growing challenges of using novel human-robot multimodal interaction paradigms. Issue related to cognitive/physical human robot interactions will be also be treated. The proposed solutions aimed to promote: energy harvesting, complete wearability, portability and reliability of the device, as well as user’s safety.