GRIP: Manipulating a Weightless Object on the International Space Station
Event Date: | October 24, 2019 |
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Time: | 3:00 pm |
Location: | POTR 234 |
Priority: | No |
School or Program: | Electrical and Computer Engineering |
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Institute of NeuroScience
Bio
Prof. Thonnard (UCLouvain, Belgium) is an accomplished expert in the field of fingertip biomechanics and dexterous manipulation of objects. His main research interests are tactile spatial resolution and tactile roughness discrimination, mechanical properties of fingertip-object contact, dynamics of precision grip during object manipulation, dexterous manipulation in Microgravity. He is Professor at the Institute of Neuroscience of UCLouvain in Belgium. He has more than 130 refereed scientific papers (Total number of citations in June 2019: 5260; h-index: 40; Source: Google Scholar).
Host
Prof. Hong Tan
2019-10-24 15:00:00 2019-10-24 16:00:00 America/Indiana/Indianapolis GRIP: Manipulating a Weightless Object on the International Space Station POTR 234