The 48th Special seminar of School of Engineering
Experiences and challenges in medical assisting devices
Overview
Date and time
Wed, Mar. 19, 2025 14:00 - 15:00
Venue
Room 322, Ishikawadai Bldg6., Ookayama Campus
Capacity
30 people
Fee
Free
Language
English
Challenges in Mechanism Design for medical assisting devices can be considered from several viewpoints in technical, social, and financial ones as a new strongly emerging service field referring specifically to elderly people. In this lecture, main issues will be discussed in terms of innovation aspects coming from Mechanism Design as specifically addressing the needs and requirements for motion assistance of elderly people. In particular, the activities at LARM2 in Rome will be outlined on topics and systems through illustrative examples from the direct experience of the speaker by also including successful results from collaboration with the team of Prof. Yukio Takeda, Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering, Institute of Science Tokyo.
Plans for future collaboration with student exchanges will be also discussed.
About Prof. Marco Ceccarelli
Marco Ceccarelli, born in Rome in 1958, is Professor of Mechanics of Machines at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy, where he chairs LARM2: Laboratory of Robot Mechatronics. His research interests cover subjects of robotics, biomedical engineering, mechanism design, experimental mechanics, and history of mechanical engineering with several published papers in the fields of robotics and mechanical engineering. He has been visiting professors in several universities in the world. He is ASME fellow. Professor Ceccarelli serves in several Journal editorial boards and conference scientific committees. He is editor-in-chief of the MDPI journal Robotics and of the SAGE International Journal on Advanced Robotic Systems for the area on Service Robotics He is editor of the Springer book series on Mechanism and Machine Science (MMS) and on History of MMS. He has been the President of IFToMM, the International Federation for the Promotion of MMS in 2008-11 and 2016-19. He has started several IFToMM sponsored conferences including (HMM) Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms, MEDER (Mechanism Design for Robotics) and MUSME (Multibody Systems and Mechatronics).
Host Organization
School of Engineering, Institute of Science Tokyo
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Contact
Specially Appointed Associate Professor Daisuke Matsuura
Email matsuura.d.aa@m.titech.ac.jp