L. (Luka) Peternel

L. (Luka) Peternel

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Biography

I received a PhD in robotics from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia in 2015. I conducted my PhD studies at  the Department for Automation, Biocybernetics and Robotics, Jožef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana from 2011 to 2015, and at the Department of Brain-Robot Interface, ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories in Kyoto, Japan in 2013 and 2014. I was with the Human-Robot Interfaces and Physical Interaction Lab, Advanced Robotics, Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa, Italy from 2015 to 2018. Since 2019, I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Cognitive Robotics, Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.

Please see my personal website for more details: www.lukapeternel.nl

Expertise

My research mainly involves Physical Human-Robot Interaction, Teleoperation, Exoskeleton, Robot Learning and Human Motor Control.

Code repositories

Python code for periodic Dynamic Movement Primitives (DMPs): https://gitlab.com/lukapeternel/pdmp

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Prizes

  • 2023-12-14

    Finalist Best Interactive Paper Award at Humanoids 2023

    For paper:
    Beck, I., Belli, I., Peternel, L., Seth, A., & Prendergast, J. M, (2023, December). Real-time tendon strain estimation of rotator-cuff muscles during robotic-assisted rehabilitation. In 2023 IEEE-RAS 16th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids). IEEE.

    2023 IEEE-RAS 22nd International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids)

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