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Neural Control of Force: A New Perspective

Coffee break

Talk Session - Locomotion 1

Self-stable bounding with a flexed torso

Maximizing the energy efficiency of the robot hopping

Human leg adjustment in perturbed hopping

Lunch

Moving Softly: Locomotion Strategies for Deformable Animals and Robots

Poster session 1

Unraveling unrestrained locomotion: 1) natural statistics of steps and patterns and 2) system identification of feedback control

LocoKit - robotic construction kit for legged locomotion

Toward highly dynamic locomotion: design challanges in MIT cheetah robot

Coffee break

Talk Session - Locomotion 2

Running across visible and non-visible changes in ground level

Stride-to-Stride vs. Step-to-Step return maps for human running

The contribution of kinematic synergy on feedback control of human walking

Lunch

Locomorph Session A
Introduction to Locomorph (Helmut Hauser)
Obtaining experimental data from animal experiments (Kristiaan D'Août)
Towards bridging the gap between conceptual models and real-world locomotion (Andre Seyfarth)
Robots as models (Kasper Støy)

Poster session 2

Locomorph Session B
From models to real robots (Helmut Hauser, Jamil Jivraj)
From Robot Morphology to Locomotion Control and Learning Strategies (Soha Pouya)

Hardware Demonstration

The role of passive properties in producing adaptive motion in robotic and biological systems

Coffee break

Hybrid Zero Dynamics

Lunch

Lab Tours / Social Event
The guided tour trough the Messel Pit Fossil Site from UNESCO World Eritage starts at 14:30 infront of the conference venue Lichtenberghaus. We will be back at 18:00 in time for the public lecture in the Hessian State Archives Darmstadt.

Orchestrating movement through complex terrain: Interactions between brains and local neural circuits

Bus transfer to Conference Dinner

Conference Dinner

Emergence of social adaptability in insects

Coffee break

Talk Session - Hardware 1

A novel design approach and operational strategy for an active ankle-knee prosthesis

Poppy: a new bio-inspired humanoid robot platform

A compliant lightweight universal joint cascadable to a multi-joint kinematics

Lunch

Talk Session - Hardware 2

MYOROBOTICS: a modular toolkit for legged locomotion research using musculoskeletal design

Dynamic locomotion with StarlETH

Poster Session 3

Talk Session - Swimming and Arm Movements

Human underwater undulatory swimming: flow characteristics around a human swimmer, technical swimmer model, and numerical simulations

Humans adapt to a changed arm dynamics always in the same manner - whether visual feedback is given or not.

Leg design and control for stable locomotion

Awards for "Best Talk", "Best Poster" and "Best Hardware"