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Elliott J Rouse University of Michigan Auctions, preferences, and wearable robots: the development of meaningful exoskeletons and robotic prostheses Abstract Lower-limb wearable robots—such as exoskeletons and robotic prostheses—have struggled to have the societal impact expected from these exciting technologies. In part, these challenges stem from fundamental gaps in our understanding of how and why these systems should assist their wearer during use. Wearable robots are typically designed to meet a single, specific objective (e.g. reduction of metabolic rate); however, in reality, assistive technologies impact many aspects of gait and user experience. In this talk, I will discuss our recent work leveraging user preference as a ‘meta-criterion’ in design and control, through which the wearer is able to internally balance the quantitative and qualitative tradeoffs that accompany the use of wearable robots, including stability, comfort, exertion, or speed. I will highlight our work understanding user-preferred assistance settings in a variable-stiffness prosthesis and bilateral ankle exoskeletons, demonstrating user-preferred assistance settings are reliable yet diverse, and can be obtained in less than two minutes. In addition, I will discuss how user-preferred assistance can be optimized automatically with human-in-the-loop methods, which are able to converge on user-preferred settings with an accuracy of ~90%. Finally, I will introduce a new approach for understanding the success of assistive technologies using tools from behavioral economics. I will describe and quantify the economic value provided by ankle exoskeletons, including the cost incurred from wearing the added mass, as well as the value added by the assistance alone. Together, this talk will underscore the role of the user in the development of wearable robots, and advocate for a shift away from the conventional, single-objective assessment of these technologies. Biography Elliott Rouse is an Associate Professor in the Robotics and Mechanical Engineering Departments at the University of Michigan (U-M). He directs the Neurobionics Lab, whose vision is to reverse engineer how the nervous system regulates the mechanics of locomotion, and use this information to develop meaningful assistive technologies that leverage this perspective. To this end, his group studies the design, control, and evaluation of lower-limb exoskeletons and robotic prostheses. He has launched the careers of four doctoral students, two of which are faculty at Research 1 institutions. He is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and is a member of the IEEE EMBS Technical Committee on BioRobotics. In addition, he is on the Editorial Boards for IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, and Wearable Technologies. Elliott received the BS degree in mechanical engineering from The Ohio State University and the PhD degree in biomedical engineering from Northwestern University. Afterwards, he joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the MIT Media Lab. Prior to joining U-M, Elliott was faculty in the Schools of Medicine and Engineering at Northwestern University and worked in professional autoracing. In 2019 – 2020, he was a visiting faculty member at (Google) X, where he maintains an appointment. × Jinoh Lee DLR Extension of Operational Space Control Enhancing Fault-Tolerance in Actuation Failure Abstract Actuation failure and fault-tolerant control have drawn more attention in accordance with the recent increasing demand for reliable robot control applications for long-term and remote operations. The emergence of control torque loss, i.e., the free-swinging failure, is particularly challenging when the robot performs dynamic operational space tasks due to complexities stemming from redundancies in the kinematic structure as well as a dynamical disturbance in the under-actuated multi-body system. In this task, a dynamic analysis and control method will be introduced in line with the operational space formulation approach to address such a problem of under-actuated systems without constrained conditions, which has been overlooked yet encompasses a broader range of applications involving free-floating robots and manipulators with passive joints. Biography Jinoh Lee is currently a Research Scientist with the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Wessling, Germany, and is Adjunct Professor with Mechanical Engineering Department, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). His professional is about robotics and control engineering, which include manipulation of...