Int’l Session ”Assistive Robotics” at the 30th RSJ Ann. Conf.

It is my great pleasure to organize "Assistive Robotics" as an international session at The 30th annual conference of the Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ). Please come to my session consisting of 12 attractive presentations using 2 slots.
The following is the session schedule in detail.

日本ロボット学会 第30回記念 学術講演会にて，今年も国際セッション"Assistive Robotics"をオーガナイズしました．
今年は12件も投稿していただきましたので，2コマでの開催となります．以下，セッションのスケジュールです．
ぜひご聴講ください！

Sep 18 (Tue) PM1 Room D (Room 101)
2D2-1 13:00〜
Hybrid control of a three finger hand exoskeleton based on EMG and inverse kinematics model
M. Felix Orlando（IIT Kanpur）○Ashish Dutta（IIT Kanpur）Anupam Saxena（IIT Kanpur）Laxmidhar Behera（IIT Kanpur）Tomohiro Shibata（NAIST）Tomoya Tamei（NAIST）
2D2-2 13:15〜
Analysis of grasping motion based on the hand deformation
○Atsutoshi Ikeda（NAIST）Makoto Mutou（NAIST）Jun Takamatsu（NAIST）Tsukasa Ogasawara（NAIST）
2D2-3 13:30〜
Towards Intuitive Manipulation of an Assistive Robotic Arm for Human Living Support
○Wei Wang（Waseda Univ.）Zeming Zhang（Waseda Univ.）Yuki Suga（Waseda Univ.）Hiroyasu Iwata（Waseda Univ.）Shigeki Sugano（Waseda Univ.）
2D2-4 13:45〜
Position and Force Control of a StewartPlatform-Type Ankle-Foot Assist Device with Pneumatic Control
○Ming Ding（RIKEN）Hiroshi Takemura（RIKEN）Hiroshi Mizoguchi（RIKEN）Ryojun Ikeura（RIKEN, Mie Univ.）
2D2-5 14:00〜
Design of wearable power assist wear for low back support
○Xiangpan Li（Okayama Univ.）Toshiro Noritsugu（Okayama Univ.）Masahiro Takaiwa（Okayama Univ.）
Daisuke Sasaki（Okayama Univ.）
2D2-6 14:15〜
Tendon-Spring Model of PneumaticElectric Hybrid Actuator for Exoskeleton Robot
○Tomoyuki Noda（CNS, ATR）Sang-Ho Hyon（CNS, ATR/Ritsumeikan
Univ.）Jun Morimoto（CNS, ATR）

Sep 18 (Tue) PM2 Room D (Room 101)
2D3-1 15:30〜
Gait Training with Robot Suit HAL for Stroke Patients
○Hiroaki Kawamoto（Univ. of Tsukuba）Kanako Yamawaki（Univ. of Tsukuba）Kiyoshi Eguchi（Univ. of Tsukuba）Yoshiyuki Sankai（Univ. of Tsukuba）
2D3-2 15:45〜
Adaptive Robotic Clothing Assistance through Reinforcement Learning with Time-varying Synergies Model
○Tomoya Tamei（NAIST）Takamitsu Matsubara（NAIST）Tomohiro Shibata（NAIST）
2D3-3 16:00〜
Assist-as-needed Robotic Training based on Reinforcement Learning
○Chihiro Obayashi（NAIST）Tomoya Tamei（NAIST）Tomohiro Shibata（NAIST）
2D3-4 16:15〜
Structural Equation Model for CostBenefit Assessment of Life Supporting Robots
○Bong Keun Kim（AIST）Hideyuki Tanaka（AIST）Eimei Oyama（AIST）Yujin Wakita（AIST）Takeshi Sakaguchi（AIST）Woo-Keun Yoon（AIST）Masahiro Yoshikawa（AIST）Yoshio Matsumoto（AIST）
2D3-5 16:30〜
Engagement Estimation Using Gaussian Mixture Engagement Models for a Playmate Robot
○Si Chen（UEC TOKYO）Kasumi Abe（UEC TOKYO）Tomoaki Nakamura（UEC TOKYO）Takayuki Nagai（UEC TOKYO）Hongsheng He（National University of Singapore）Shuzhi Sam Ge（University of Electronic Science and Technology of China）
2D3-6 16:45〜
Text-based Chatterbot System for Multimodal Human-Robot Interaction in Embodied Virtual Environment
○Jeffrey Too Chuan Tan（NII）Tetsunari Inamura（NII）