IEEE SMC: Systems, Man, & Cybernetics Society

Shared Control

TC Leadership

Tom Carlson

TC Co-Chair

Tom Carlson (Email)
EPFL, Switzerland

Mark Mulder

TC Co-Chair

Mark Mulder (Email)
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

David Abbink

TC Co-Chair

David Abbink (Email)
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Our Goal

The Technical Committee on Shared Control is a brand new group, formed of international specialists who envision a world in which human-machine interaction is safer, more intuitive, more comfortable and more robust to differences in environment and users. The aim of the Technical Committee on Shared Control is to accelerate research towards that goal, by stimulating scientific discussions and international collaborations, in both academia and industry. Over the past decades the principles of shared control have been gaining interest in a broad range of research and engineering communities as a design approach that integrates the best of both worlds: the fast, reliable, precise and inexhaustible task execution capabilities of automation and the complementary inventive, adaptive and interactive task execution skills of humans. Although recent research has shown that shared control can enhance the capabilities of both humans and automation in a wide variety of applications (driving, flying, wheelchair control, tele-operation of robots, etc.), there is not much consensus on how to design or particularly how to evaluate such systems.

We aim to reach our goals by providing a platform to gain consensus about design and evaluation of shared control systems, across different application fields. Further details about the TC and its recent activities are available on our website.

Members

  • Farzad Aminravan, University of British Columbia, Canada
  • Erwin Boer, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
  • Henri Boessenkool, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
  • Laurent Bougrain, INRIA/LORIA, France
  • Heinrich Bülthoff, Max Planck Institute, German
  • Ricardo Chavarriaga, EPFL, Switzerland
  • Eric Demeester, KU Leuven, Belgium
  • Yiannis Demiris, Imperial College London, UK
  • Mike Goodrich, Brigham Young University, USA
  • Ping Guo, Beijing Normal University, China
  • Peter Hermannstaedter, ISS, University of Stuttgart, Germany
  • Teun Hoevenaars, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
  • Manfred Huber, University of Texas at Arlington, US
  • Alexander Huentemann, KU Leuven, Belgium
  • Kao-Shing Hwang, National Chung Chen University,Taiwan
  • Khalil Ibrahim , EJUST , Egypt
  • Atsutoshi Ikeda , NAIST, Japan
  • Robert Leeb, EPFL, Switzerland
  • Tzuu-Hseng S. Li, National Cheng Kung Univeristy, Taiwan
  • Itoh Makato, University of Tsukuba, Japan
  • Laura Marchal-Crespo, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  • Murilo Fernandes Martins, FEI University, Brazil
  • Martin Masek, Edith Cowan University, Australia
  • José del R. Millán, EPFL, Switzerland
  • Gao Ming, FZI Karlsruhe, Germany
  • Shady Mohamed, Deaken University, Australia
  • Roderick Murray-Smith, University of Glasgow, Scotland
  • René van Paassen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
  • Angel Del Pobil, Universitat Jaume-I, Spain
  • Ahmed Ramadan, EJUST, Egypt
  • Sareh Saeedi, EPFL, Switzerland
  • Jan Smisek, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
  • Harold Soh, Imperial College London, UK
  • Kai-Tai Song, NCTU, Taiwan
  • Katherine Tsui, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA
  • Emmanuel Vander Poorten, KU Leuven, Belgium
  • Joost Venrooij, Max Planck Institute, Germany
  • Joost de Winter, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Learn More

These tutorial materials provide more information on topics of interest to our technical committee.

Recent Activities

  • 2013 Interactive Workshop on Shared Control at IEEE SMC 2013, Manchester, UK
  • 2013 Special Session on Shared Control at IEEE SMC 2013, Manchester, UK
  • 2012 Workshop on Shared Control at IEEE SMC, Seoul, Korea
  • 2012, Special session on Shared Control at IEEE SMC, Seoul, Korea
  • 2011 Special session on Shared Control at IEEE SMC, Anchorage, Alaska
  • Created SMC TC on Shared Control and associated activities website
  • Technical papers for submission to the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
  • Reviewing of articles submitted to IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
  • Wrote a joint journal paper for the new IEEE SMC Transactions on Human-Machine Systems

Join Us

The Technical Committee on Shared Control provides opportunities to continue professional and personal development by:

  • Networking with peers and experts on shared control
  • Benefiting from the cross-fertilization of research from different application domains
  • Discussing your ideas with enthusiastic like-minded researchers
  • Exchanging your results with peers, prior to publication or commercialization
  • Collaborating with experts to solve the significant challenges posed by such systems
  • Gaining peer recognition by presenting at workshops and tutorials, and contributing articles to publications of the SMC Society
  • Demonstrating leadership by helping to organize special sessions on shared control at conferences sponsored by the SMC Society

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