Program Highlights

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Dynamic Walking is not a typical conference where the talks are strictly scheduled and only a few questions are allowed after each talk. The emphasis during Dynamic Walking is on a really interactive conference with a LOT of discussion among the participants. Therefore we limit the number of participants to ~90, it is single track and it will ONLY be about dynamic walking.

So it will deal with energetics, stability, predictive principles and models, dynamic modeling, empirical data with a conceptual tie in, robot successes and failures.

And it will NOT deal with vision, navigation, motion planning, kinematic data or kinematic control.

To create a good discussion atmosphere we will make an informal setting with joint meals, common living facility,and organization and activities that maximize conversations and interactions.

Everyone will either present a presentation or a poster.

Presentations

We estimate that there is time for oral presentations for 30% of the participants; the other 70% are invited to present a poster. A typical presentation will be 15 min.

Posters

There are no specific guidelines for poster size or format. The posters will be put up a wall, so any size will fit. The posters will only be put up during the poster session concerned.

We find it really important to properly introduce the posters. Therefore, the posters will be thematically grouped in 4 poster sessions. Each poster session will be introduced by a session chair (most likely one of the organizers) who will present the coherence and connections between the posters of that session.

To do this properly, we ask all participants to send a 2-page powerpoint summary of their intended presentation (see registration page). These two pages will help the organization board to decide which papers will be posters or presentations, and how to thematically group them.

Special events

Tutorials

We plan 3 different tutorials on Limit cycle analysis, Human Gait Analysis and How to Build your own Passive Dynamic Walker. More info here

Visit to workshop of Theo Jansen

The artist Theo Jansen makes skeletons which are able to walk on the wind. More info here

Amsterdam gait lab and city tour

Demos will be given of various scientific and clinical labs and experimental set-ups. More info

PhD defense presentation Daan Hobbelen

This PhD defense is part of the unofficial program. More info