{"361151":{"#nid":"361151","#data":{"type":"event","title":"IRIM Robotics Seminar\u2013Brenna D. Argall","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENorthwestern\u2019s\u0026nbsp;Brenna Argall presents\u0026nbsp;\u201cTurning Assistive Machines into Assistive Robots\u201d\u0026nbsp;as part of the IRIM Robotics Seminar Series.\u0026nbsp;The event will be held in the\u0026nbsp;Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute Auditorium from 12-1 p.m. and is open to the public.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor decades, the potential for automation\u2014in particular, in the form of smart wheelchairs\u2014to aid those with motor or cognitive impairments, has been recognized. It is a paradox that often the more severe a person\u0027s motor impairment, the more challenging it is for them to operate the very assistive machines that might enhance their quality of life. A primary aim of my lab is to address this confound by incorporating robotics autonomy and intelligence into assistive machines\u2014turning the machine into a kind of robot and offloading some of the control burden from the user. Robots already synthetically sense, act in and reason about the world, and these technologies can be leveraged to help bridge the gap left by sensory, motor, or cognitive impairments of the users of assistive machines. This talk will provide an overview of some of the ongoing projects in my lab, which strives to advance human ability through robotics autonomy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBrenna Argall is the June and Donald Brewer Junior Professor of Electrical Engineering \u0026amp; Computer Science at Northwestern University and also an assistant professor in the Department of Physical Medicine \u0026amp; Rehabilitation. She also holds a faculty research scientist position within the Sensory Motor Performance Program (SMPP) at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC), where she directs a rehabilitation robotics laboratory.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to joining Northwestern and RIC, Argall was a postdoctoral fellow (2009-2011) in the Learning Algorithms and Systems Laboratory (LASA) at the \u00c9cole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland under the guidance of Prof. Aude Billard. In the spring of 2009, Argall completed a Ph.D. in Robotics with co-advisors Prof. Manuela Veloso and Dr. Brett Browning in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where she was affiliated with the CORAL Research Group.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EArgall has lived in Doha, Qatar (Spring 2007), while assistant teaching at Carnegie Mellon\u0027s Qatar Campus, and in Brisbane, Australia (Summer 2008), while serving as a research intern with the Autonomous Systems Laboratory at CSIRO. Her M.S. in Robotics (2006), and B.S. in Mathematics (2002), along with minors in Music and Biology, were granted by Carnegie Mellon. Prior to attending graduate school, Argall held a computational biology position in the Laboratory of Brain and Cognition at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). 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