CICADA Workshop on Balance and Falling

15 Feb 2011

On Friday 25 February (12.15pm to 4.10pm) in the Alan Turing Building

Centre for Interdisciplinary Computational and Dynamical Analysis (CICADA)
Workshop on Balance and Falling

Talks will take place in the Frank Adams 2 room, Alan Turing Building, The University of Manchester

• 12.15pm – Buffet lunch (Atrium Bridge, first floor)
• 1.05pm – Prof Paul Glendinning (UoM) A Questions of balance in elderly humans and humanoids
• 1.10pm - Mr Houman Dallali (UoM) Stochastic stability for walking
• 1.40pm - Dr Piotr Kowalczyk (UoM) Hybrid models of balance
• 2.10pm – Tea/Coffee
• 2.40pm - Dr Steve Davis (IIT) Foot design for humanoid robots
• 3.10pm - Dr Ian Loram (MMU) Physiological models of human balance
• 3.40pm - Dr Martin Brown / Mr Onder Tutsoy (UoM) An Analysis of reinforcement learning for simple balance models
• 4.10pm – Close

Information about registration can be obtained from:

• Helen Harper at helen.harper@manchester.ac.uk