Workshop on Advanced AI Methods and Interfaces for Human-Centered Assistive and Rehabilitation Robotics
(a Fit4MedRob event)
co-located with AIxIA 2024
25-28 November 2024
https://aixia2024.events.unibz.it/
Motivation and scientific relevance to the conference audience
This workshop stems from the Fit for Medical Robotics (https://www.fit4medrob.it/) project, an initiative funded by Italian MUR to foster research activities in technological assistance and rehabilitation. In Fit4MedRob, the integration of AI and Robotics plays a crucial role. Indeed, among the main missions of the project the goal of fostering “Next Generation Components” foresees the development of new intelligent interfaces and AI algorithms to improve the interpretation of users’ intentions and to implement safer and richer interactions between humans and robots. Therefore, a workshop co-located with AIxIA 2024 seems to us a natural venue where the first research results can be presented and disseminated.
Workshop Abstract
Developing intelligent robots for rehabilitation and assistance tasks entails a series of challenges. Indeed, such robots should have innate abilities of computation, sensing, reasoning and adaptation as well as of responding and interacting with users and the environment. It is pivotal to allow robots with the ability to foresee and/or interpret needs, mental or health status of patients to develop seamlessly controlled rehabilitation robots or personal care robots aimed to assist frail individuals or patients. Next-generation robots, either under user control (e.g.: prostheses) or autonomous ones, will require advanced autonomous capabilities to acquire and process signals from connected humans and the surrounding environment and be equipped with learning, prediction and reasoning capabilities. The workshop aims at gathering research contributions related to robot intelligence and seamless interaction between robots and humans. These include technologies to record the signals from the individual, computational approaches to process them, and high-level cognitive architectures to understand the context and control the robot safely while interacting with the individual(s).<br><br>
Submission instructions
All submitted papers will be evaluated by at least two members of the program committee, based on originality, significance, relevance and technical quality. Papers should be formatted according to the CEUR-WS's single-column style (http://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html). We look for contributions submitted as Extended Abstracts (5 pages + references) to present original work, work-in-progress or work already presented in other venues. The author(s) will be required to orally present their paper to workshop attendees. Submissions must be made through the EasyChair conference system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aixiafit4medrob.
At least one of the authors should register and take part at the conference to make the presentation.
Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: September 22nd, 2024
Notification to authors: October 6th, 2024
Workshop: November 25th-26th, 2024
Program Commitee (To Be Completed)
- Gloria Beraldo, (CNR-ISTC)
- Laura Fiorini (Uni Firenze)
- Elie Maalouly, (UNINA)
- Fulvio Mastrogiovanni, (UniGE)
- Carmine Tommaso Recchiuto, (UniGE)
- Alessandra Rossi, (UniNA)
- Alessandra Sorrentino (Uni Firenze)
- Christian Tamantini, (CNR-ISTC)
- Alessandro Umbrico, (CNR-ISTC)
Organizers
● Silvia Rossi, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II silvia.rossi@unina.it https://www.prisca.unina.it/
● Antonio Sgorbissa, Università degli Studi di Genova antonio.sgorbissa@unige.it https://dibris.unige.it/antonio.sgorbissa%40unige.it
● AndreA Orlandini, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR-ISTC) andrea.orlandini@istc.cnr.it www.istc.cnr.it/people/andrea-orlandini