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SUMMARY:Skinning a robot:  Design Methodologies for Large-Scale Robot Skin
  - Dr Perla Maiolino \, Goldsmiths University of London
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CONTACT:Josie Hughes
DESCRIPTION:*Abstract.* Robots operating in dynamic and unstructured envir
 onments must exhibit advanced forms of interaction with objects and humans
 . Large-scale tactile sensing can play a fundamental role in enhancing per
 ceptual\, cognitive and operative capabilities of robots\, specifically wh
 en they physically interact with objects and humans in the environment.\nM
 any solutions to design\, engineer and manufacture tactile sensors have be
 en presented\, but the concept of large-scale tactile sensing gives rise t
 o a number of system-level challenges that simply do not show up when focu
 sing on small tactile sensor array (modularity\, conformability\, easy int
 egration\, networking\, distributed processing and tight Real-Time require
 ments). In the lecture the Roboskin technology will be presented focusing 
 on all the aspects that must be take in account for making a large-area sk
 in for robots.\n\n*Speaker's Bio.*  P. Maiolino received her Ph.D. in Robo
 tics from the University of Genoa as well as her M.S. in Robotics and Auto
 mation. She joined the Mechatronic and Control Laboratory (MACLAB) at the 
 Department of Informatics\, Bioengineering\, Robotics and System Engineeri
 ng (DIBRIS) University of Genoa where\, as PhD student first and then as r
 esearch fellow\, carried out research about to all the aspects related to 
 the development and integration of distributed tactile sensor for robots\,
  with a strong focus on materials and design of new technological solution
 s. She has been member of the scientific staff of the EC-funded FP7 resear
 ch project ROBOSKIN (Skin-based technologies and capabilities for safe\, a
 utonomous and interactive robots) and affiliated researcher at IIT (Italia
 n Institute of Technology). Furthermore she was Key Staff\, in the EC-fund
 ed FP7 research project CloPeMa (Clothes Perception and Manipulation)\, ai
 ming at developing a tactile sensor that allows for perception and manipul
 ation of clothes and fabrics\, as well as in the Italian National Project 
 MARIS funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Education working o
 n tactile sensors for underwater applications.  She was Visiting Professor
  at the Asian Institute of Technology\, Thailand and Keio University\, Jap
 an and She was lecturer of Mechatronics course for the European Master of 
 Robotics (EMARO). Currently She is a Post-Doc and Teaching fellow at the C
 omputing Department of Goldsmiths University of London pursuing research r
 elated to tactile perception and human-robot interaction in collaboration 
 with several universities (University of Genova\, Imperial College London\
 , Bangor University).  
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