Training Events

International School on Touch for Prosthetics (2020)

When: 21st and 28th September, 5th and 12th October 2020
Where: Online
Tags: BIO, ART, PRO
Topics:
- Biology of touch sensing ;
- Invasive tactile feedback ;
- Non-invasive tactile feedback ;
- Control of prosthetic devices ;
- Soft skills: team building, human resources management, entrepreneurship, IPR, ethics

Minisymposium NER21

When: 4th May, 2021
Where: 2021 10th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering (NER)
Tags: BIO, ART, PRO, ROB
Topics:
- Improving Manipulation Performance of Mobile Robots Using Tactile Sensors;
- Development of a Soft Zwitterionic Coating for Chronic Intrafascicular Peripheral Nerve Implants ;
- Studying Population Coding in Human Tactile Afferents Using Large Scale Neural Simulations ;
- Active Touch in Biology, Prosthetics and Robotics

International School on Touch for Robotics (2021)

Where: TBA

Tags: ART, COMP, ROB

Topics:
- Neural coding for touch and behaviour (S. Panzeri, M. Diamond);
- Event-driven perception for robotics (E. Chicca, C. Bartolozzi);
- Control for grasping and manipulation (L. Natale, R. Haschke);
- Object exploration and recognition (L. Natale, H. Ritter);
- Tactile perception and memory (T. Prescott, M. Diamond);
- Touch technologies for robots (R. Dahiya, C. Bartolozzi)
- Soft-skills: project management, scientific writing, best practice in science, European Researcher code of conduct, open science, FAIR data management
Invited speakers TBA

International School on Technologies for Touch Activity (2022)

Where: University of Glasgow
Tags: ART, COMP, TECH
Topics:
- Spiking models of tactile transduction (H. Saal); Sensors and transduction for touch (R.Dahiya, C. Bartolozzi);
- 3D printed prosthetics with embedded touch sensing (R. Dahiya);
- Sensory encoding and feature extraction (E. Chicca, T. Heed);
- Embedded processing with spiking neural networks (E. Chicca)
- Soft-skills: dissemination and public engagement, Gender Equality, Quality management
Invited speakers TBA

WHC workshop "Neuromorphic Haptics - Transitioning From Touch Sensors to Perception."

Where: Delft

Tags: ART, COMP, ROB

Topics:
- Computational models of biological touch and tools for analysing the neural code related to touch sensing and perception
- Synergies and differences between neuromorphic approaches for different sensory modalities (vision, haptics, auditory, olfaction)
- Neuromorphic hardware for distributed computing and communication, from circuits to systems design and fabrication
- Tactile sensing and processing neuromorphic circuits design on flexible and unconventional substrates
Invited speakers TBA

Training Resources

Training Events – International Schools

Three intensive international schools each focussing on one of the application areas of the project: Prosthetics, Robotics and Technologies for touch. 5 days of research related frontal lectures in the morning, hands-on tutorials, coding sessions or discussion groups in the afternoon and invited talks in the evenings. Two days will be dedicated to soft skills training.