2016-17 Gerald M. Masson Distinguished Lecture Series

Distinguished Lecturer RUZENA BAJCSY University of California, Berkeley

TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 2017 • 10:30 AM Hackerman Hall B-17 “DEVELOPMENT OF KINEMATIC AND DYNAMIC MODELS FOR INDIVIDUAL USING SYSTEM ESTIMATION AND IDENTIFICATION TECHNIQUES”

ABSTRACT: This talk will introduce a BIO: Ruzena Bajcsy received the Master’s and kinematic and dynamic framework for Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from creating a representative model of an Slovak Technical University, , Slovak individual. Building on results from geometric Republic, in 1957 and 1967, respectively, and , a method for formulating a the Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford geometric dynamic identification model University, Stanford, CA, in 1972. She is a is derived. This method is validated on a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer robotic arm, and tested on healthy and Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, muscular dystrophy subjects to determine and Director Emeritus of the Center for the utility as a clinical tool. In order to capture Information Technology Research in the Interest kinematics of the human body we used of Science (CITRIS). Prior to joining Berkeley, she Visual observations, either motion capture headed the Computer and Information Science or the Kinect camera. In order to obtain the and Engineering Directorate at the National dynamical parameters of the individual, we Science Foundation. Dr. Bajcsy is a member used force plate and force sensors for robot of the National Academy of Engineering and attached to human hand. The work in progress the National Academy of Science Institute of is to use Ultrasound scanner and Acoustic Medicine as well as a Fellow of the Association myography in order to estimate the muscle for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the strength. American Association for .

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