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A few advanced topics of the theory of mechanisms, rehabilitation robotics and Biomechanics
 

Time：14:00 , May 25th
Place：F303, School of Mechanical Engineering
Speaker：Prof. Vincenzo Parenti Castell
Host：Prof. Wang Hao

Abstract:
In the last years the Group of Robotics Automation and Articular Biomechanics (GRAB) at the University of Bologna has developed a number of research activities which are focused on three main wide fields. Namely Theory of Mechanisms, Robotics and Automation, and finally Articular Biomechanics. These fields are strictly related and the presentation, while focusing on a number of specific issues in each individual field, will show at the same time the strict relations that exist among them.

Theoretical issues will be presented as well as practical ones ranging, for example, from the synthesis of parallel mechanisms with three degrees of freedom for a pure translational motion of the output link to the design of hand exoskeletons for rehabilitation purposes. Particular attention will be devoted to the modelling of the human joint and the design of knee and ankle articular prostheses.

About the speaker:

Prof. Vincenzo Parenti Castelli he got his Laurea degree (1973) in Mechanical Engineering cum laude at the University of Bologna, and the licence for engineering profession. Assistant Professor of Mechanics of Machines (MM) at the University of Bologna (1974). Military service (1974-75). Associate Professor of MM, (1980). Married with Anna Maria Berti (1982). Full professor of MM (1989).

He has received awards (National Federation of the Knights of Work, 1975), and grants (Fulbright, (1982) and CNR (1983)). Since 2002 is Associate Member of the Jozef Stefan Institute of Lubljana.. Since 2005 Associate Editor of the international journal Mechanism and Machine Theory, Elsevier. Since 2011 is member of the Academy of Sciences of Bologna. Since 2012 member of the Scientific Committee of the College of China. Since 2012 member of the Editorial Board of the TWMS (Turkic World Mathematical Society) Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics. He authored and co-authored more than 280 scientific publications on the following topics: gas lubrication of journal bearings, methods of machine design, fault diagnosis and monitoring of gears, automated systems for milking machines methods for the kinematic and dynamic analysis of open and closed kinematic chains and robot manipulators, biomechanics.