Special Session 25

SPECIAL SESSION #25

Michael Kuhl

Hochschule Mittweida, University of Applied Sciences, Germany

• kuhl@hs-mittweida.de

Flaviana Tagliaferri

Hochschule Mittweida, University of Applied Sciences, Germany

• flaviana.tagliaferri@hs-mittweida.de

Keeping or bringing people back to safety is always a top priority. Whether in a workplace, in a public building, during a trip or a mass event as well as in a private place.

This special session aims to explore how the protection of people can be ensured or, at least enhanced, integrating it into the development of protection systems based on the use of sensors and actuators in combination with extended reality (XR) and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques.
Therefore this special session will host contributions and insights on recent developments in the field of Human-Machine Interface for the safety assistance of people in different contexts of human activities such as the mobility of things or people (e.g. in the logistics sector), production (e.g. robot cells) as well as disaster areas (e.g. fires).

Topics of interest for this Special Session include (but are not limited to):

• Human-Machine Interaction
• Artificial Intelligence for HMI
• Artificial Intelligence for safety
• Intelligent Sensor System for Safety
• Smart feedback actuator
• Decision Support Systems based on AI
• Innovative sensors system for hazard evaluation
• Virtual and augmented reality for hazard evaluation
• Wearable sensors for safety

Michael Kuhl studied Electrical Engineering at TU Chemnitz and TU Delft, starting in 1991 and graduating in 1996 with research investigations at the Delft Institute of Microsystems and Nanoelectronics. From 1996, he worked as a development engineer in the electronics industry before moving to research at the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft in 2001. In 2003 he established the group of Process Informatics to the Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology. His work was focused on quality and process monitoring in production technology. After achieving his doctorate in 2010 he became the Head of the Main Department of Production Technology at the Professorship for Mac hine Tools and Forming Technology at TU Chemnitz. In 2012 he became the Managing Chief Engineer for Research and Development at Fraunhofer IWU and since January 2015 he has been the Division Director for Strategy and International Affairs.
Since 2017, he is Full Professor at Mittweida University of Applied Sciences (HSMW). His Chair for Systems Electronics is engaged in the development of electronic systems for production engineering and ambient assisted living. Since 2019 he is the Dean of Studies of the Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering Automation at the HSMW.

Flaviana Tagliaferri graduated in 2008 with the best score in Mechanical Engineering at ‘Tor Vergata’ University, Rome (Italy). Between 2006 and 2009 she worked for IACOBUCCI HF Electronics S.p.A. company, operating in the aerospace sector. After achieving her doctorate in 2012 at the University of Naples ‘Federico II’ (Italy) she won a Post-Doc grant (funded from DAAD - Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) to work at the Institute for Machine Tools and Production Processes (IWP) of Chemnitz University of Technology, (TU Chemnitz, Germany). Her focus was on innovative cutting technology. From 2012 to 2017 she worked as a res earch fellow at the Department of Industrial Engineering University of Naples, Federico II. In the same time and until 2018 she was research associate at IWP of TU Chemnitz. Since July 2017 she is lecturer at Niccolò Cusano University, Rome (Italy), teaching ‘Manufacturing materials and technologies for food industry’. Since October 2018 she is a researcher at the Mittweida University of Applied Sciences, under the chair for Systems Electronics.