We are happy to share that Marc-Anton Scheidl represented the Assistive Intelligent Robotics Lab (AIROB Lab, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) at the 2026 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII 2026) in Cancun, Mexico.
At SII 2026, Marc-Anton presented our paper “Pass-On Control: Personalized Assistive Online Control for a Wrist Exosuit” (joint work with Jacob Behrendt, Sabine Thürauf, and Prof. Claudio Castellini). The symposium provided an excellent forum to exchange ideas with the system integration community, spanning robotics, cyber-physical systems, and healthcare & assistive technologies.
Paper spotlight: “Pass-On Control” for a soft wrist exosuit
Our work addresses a central challenge in wearable assistance: translating biosignals into stable, intuitive support across changing joint postures and tasks. We propose a multimodal, hierarchical control approach for a tendon-driven soft wrist exosuit that combines surface electromyography (sEMG) and inertial sensing. In a pilot evaluation with repetitive wrist tasks, the controller substantially reduced extensor muscle activity under external load, while maintaining functional tracking accuracy. Under load, median normalized extensor activity decreased by approximately 30%, and fatigue-related drift across repetitions was eliminated. Assistance introduced only a modest tracking penalty, while average errors remained within functional bounds.
FAU at SII 2026
FAU was strongly represented across the technical program. In addition to the AIROB contribution, Nico G. M. Weber (FAPS) presented the paper “ADJUHand – a Passive Anthropomorphic Hand Model with Adjustable Finger Stiffness for Exoskeleton Evaluation” co-authored with Sebastian Dietz, Dominik I. Braun, Jonas Walter, Alessandro Del Vecchio, and Jörg Franke. Together, these contributions highlight the breadth of FAU’s robotics research, from biosignal-driven wearable assistance to evaluation methods and benchmarking tools for human-centered devices.