Invited Speaker: Dr Leonardo Cappello

Dr Leonardo Cappello is a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at the BioRobotics Institute – Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Italy), where he leads the Textile Robotics Lab. He works on the design of textile-based robotic wearables for human sensorimotor restoration and augmentation. His research interests include haptics, assistive and rehabilitation robotics, prosthetics and orthotics, and motor neurosciences. He was recently awarded with the European Research Council Starting Grant (ERC StG) for the project MUsculoSkeletal Expansion (MUSE). Leonardo Cappello graduated in Mechanical Engineering (BS) in 2009 and in Biomedical Engineering (MS) in 2011 at the University of Florence, Italy. In 2016 he accomplished his PhD in “Robotics, Cognition and Interaction Technologies” at the Italian Institute of Technology. During his PhD, he was visiting student at the Nanyang Technological University, Robotics Research Centre, Singapore (2014 – 2015). He was Postdoctoral Researcher at Harvard University and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, where he worked on soft wearable robots for upper limb sensorimotor restoration (2016 – 2017). He was then Postdoctoral Researcher at the BioRobotics Institute – Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Italy) – investigating advanced robotic prostheses and prosthetic techniques for the upper extremities (2017-2022).

Topic of Presentation: Transcending the paradigm of wearing a robot – The MusculoSkeletal Expansion

Further Presentations:

Validating Knitted Textile Sensors for Continuous Human Movement Monitoring
Paul Gough; Simon McMaster; Tom Payne; Maddy Oakley; Andrew Thompson; Thanassis Bischiniotis; Lucy Pratt – Footfalls Smartex

Textile-Based Wearable Device to Monitor Relevant Parameters of Sleep Quality

Miguel Rocha; Cristina Furtado; Kevin Rodrigues; Margarida Baldaia; Francisca Marques; Sérgio Fonseca; Emanuel Dias; Valeria Lazar; Liliana Santos – Centi

Insulated Yarn-based Warp-Knitted Capacitive Pressure Sensor for Smart Sportswear

Severin Bernhart; Emanuel Gunnarsson; Benjamin Poredos; Franziska Guth; Burkhard Duemler; Vincent Nierstrasz – Salzburg Research FGmbH

Embroidered Tatami-Stitch Electrodes for Functional Electrical Stimulation: In-Situ Pressure–Impedance Characterization and Integration into a Wearable Garment

Paolo Perego; Giovanni Di Lillo; Sofia Zenzon; Nicola Francesco Lopomo; Giuseppe Andreoni – Politecnico di Milano

Beneficial Effects of Supercapacitor Charge Redistribution for a Real-World RF Powered E-Textile Energy Harvester and Storage Module

Nicholas Hillier; Mahmoud Wagih; Sheng Yong; Stephen Beeby – University of Southampton

Braided Temperature Sensors for Textile Reinforcement Structures

Hanna Kahne; Lara Klotzbücher; Hung Le Xuan; Chokri Cherif – TU Dresden