Pre-conference Workshop 1: Practical industry workshop for TwinCat3 (Beckhoff) and Matlab/Simulink (Mathworks)
Venue: Old University of Basel, Rheinsprung 9, 4051 Basel, Switzerland

2 days workshop, June 10 – 11, 2021
Max. 30 participants

INSTRUCTORS

• Prof. Dr. Georg Rauter (Director BIROMED-Lab, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland)
• Tobias Bachmann (Technical Support / Application, Beckhoff Automation AG, Schaffhausen, Switzerland)
• Vasco Lenzi (Senior Application Engineer, The MathWorks GmbH, Bern, Switzerland)

BACKGROUD

Nowadays, there is large knowledge available about control from a theoretical point of view. However, getting an entire setup working from hardware integration, safety, control, up to the graphical user interface or virtual environment, is seldom taught.

Participants will learn about basic differences in various automatization environments such as dSPACE, Matlab xPC Target, Matlab/Simulink, LabVIEW, and TwinCAT3. Within one week, the participants will learn how to integrate motors, sensors, and safety components in a predesigned electric cabinet for automation and control purposes. They will develop an automation application for a balancing and visual tracking application, integrate different control schemes, and write a graphical user interface to control the application in real-time.

In groups up to four, the participants will learn how to integrate different hardware components in a real-time control system (TwinCAT3, Beckhoff). They will learn how to account for software safety for an application involving servo motors. After successful hardware and software safety integration, different control schemes (model based controllers, non-linear controllers, vision-based non-linear controllers, etc. ) will be integrated in Matlab/Simulink. After compilation for TwinCAT3, the controllers will work on an industrial embedded real-time PC. During runtime, the participants will be able adapting controllers-online, record data, and see the influence of different filters. Consequently, the participants will program their own graphical user interface (GUI) in the game development engine UNITY. This GUI can be interfaced with the real-time environment through an Automation Device Specification (ADS), i.e. a field bus interface for TwinCAT3. After first experiments with the hard and software, two groups will work together for realizing a two-degrees of freedom ball balancing application, where each group controls one degree of freedom. The feedback loop will be closed through real-time vision-data that needs to be extracted applying feature extraction in real-time. Finally, the performance of the teams’ solutions to the challenging application is evaluated in a friendly competition.

GOALS

Hardware, and software integration in real-time applications.
Basic knowledge in applied control (model-based control, non-linear control, cascade control).
Real-time data extraction using computer vision algorithms.
GUI-programming for real-time applications.

USEFUL LINKS (if you want to prepare yourself for the course):

Online introductory seminars to Matlab/Simulink for beginners can be found here: Matlab Onramp

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Registered users for the workshop may contact the organizer of the conference to obtain a trial license for Matlab/Simulink (details are still in negotiation with The MathWorks GmbH): georg.rauter@unibas.ch

Pre-conference Workshop 2: 3D-Motion- tracking systems with and without markers & IMUs
Venue: Old University of Basel, Rheinsprung 9, 4051 Basel, Switzerland

1 day workshop, June 10, 2021

INSTRUCTORS

• Thomas Seel, PhD (Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany)
• Simi Reality Motion Systems, Qualisys AB

COORDINATOR

• Beat Göpfert (Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland)

Post-conference Workshop: Robotics in Nursing
Venue: Alte Universität, Rheinsprung 9, Basel, Switzerland

1 day workshop, June 11, 2021

GOALS OF THE WORKSHOP

• To provide an overview of the current state of science on robotics in nursing.
• To showcase examples of practical applications of robotics in nursing in Swiss health care and beyond.
• To discuss 2 robotics solutions (i.e. a social assistive robot & a rehabilitation robot) from different perspectives (e.g. end user perspective (i.e. older persons / caregiver, ethics, legal and business)
• To discuss research priorities for robotics in nursing

INSTRUCTORS

• Elliott Ash, PhD - Center for Law and Economics, ETH Zürich (Switzerland)
• Marc Bolliger, PhD - Spinal Cord Injury Center, University Hospital Balgrist, Zurich, Switzerland (Switzerland)
• Thekla Brunkert, PhD, University Department of Geriatric Medicine FELIX PLATTER, (Switzerland) & Institute of Nursing Science, Department Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel (Switzerland)
• Sandra Engberg, PhD, RN – School of Nursing, University of Pittsburgh (USA)
• Oliver Mauthner, PhD, RN -  University Department of Geriatric Medicine Felix Platter
• Alexander Thys, MD, MBS, Haute Ecole de Commerce, Paris (France) & L.E.K. Consulting London Office (UK)
• Tijs Vanmeulebroucke, PhD - Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law, KU Leuven (Belgium)