DELFT HAPTICS LAB - Key Persons
Tom is a Lecturer ( assistant professor) at the Aspire CREATe (Centre for Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology), University College London, UK. His research focus is on the user-centred design of assistive robotic technologies for people with spinal cord injuries.
Tom collaborates with Delft Haptics Lab in the investigation and promotion of shared control systems. Together with Mark Mulder and David Abbink he co-founded the IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Shared Control, which aims to bring together an outstanding, multi-disciplinary team of experts to develop guidelines on the design and evaluation of shared control systems, across different application areas.
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- People
- Professor of Bio - Mechanics
- Supervisor of David Abbink
Frans van der Helm is the supervisor of David Abbink, and is involved in many of the research programmes.
Frans van der Helm is Professor of Bio-mechanics and Bio-robotics. In 2012, he received the Simon Stevin Meester prize, the most important prize for technical-scientific research in the Netherlands. Like the STW Technology Foundation, Van der Helm is committed to realising knowledge transfer between the applied sciences and users. "Whatever we develop must ultimately reach society through industry."