Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)
Institut für Robotik und Mechatronik
Samuel Bustamante works as a Scientific Employee at the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics of the German Aerospace Center. He is part of the EDAN team, where he researches and develops a robotic platform to assist humans with motor impairments.
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[J2] Samuel Bustamante, Jan Peters, Bernhard Schölkopf, Moritz Grosse-Wentrup and Vinay Jayaram, "ArmSym: a virtual human-robot interaction laboratory for assistive robotics." In press, accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, June 2021.
[J1] Samuel Bustamante, Gabriel Quere, Katharina Hagmann, Xuwei Wu, Peter Schmaus, Jörn Vogel, Freek Stulp and Daniel Leidner, "Toward Seamless Transitions Between Shared Control and Supervised Autonomy in Robotic Assistance," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 3833-3840, April 2021, doi: 10.1109/LRA.2021.3064449 [IEEE][elib].
[C2] Jörn Vogel, Annette Hagengruber, Maged Iskandar, Gabriel Quere, Ulrike Leipscher, Samuel Bustamante, Alexander Dietrich, Daniel Leidner and Alin Albu-Schäffer, "EDAN: An EMG-controlled Daily Assistant to Help People With Physical Disabilities". In 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (pp. 4183-4190) [IEEE][elib].
[C1] Gabriel Quere, Annette Hagengruber, Maged Iskandar, Samuel Bustamante, Daniel Leidner, Freek Stulp and Jörn Vogel, "Shared Control Templates for Assistive Robotics". In Proc. of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Paris, France, pp. 1956-1962, May 2020 [IEEE][elib].
[W1] Freek Stulp, Adrian Simon Bauer, Samuel Bustamante, Florian Samuel Lay, Peter Schmaus and Daniel Leidner, "Explainability and Knowledge Representation in Robotics: The Green Button Challenge". Presented at the Workshop for Explainable Logic-Based Knowledge Representation (XLoKR 2020) at 17th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Rhodes, Greece, September, 2020 [extern][elib].
Master's degree in Neural Information Processing from the Graduate Training Center of Neuroscience at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany. Master's thesis: Samuel Bustamante, "A virtual reality environment for experiments in assistive robotics and neural interfaces" [pdf available]. Co-supervised by Prof. Dr. Moritz Grosse-Wentrup and Dr. Vinay Jayaram during a research stay at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen.
Mechanical Engineering degree from the Pontificia Bolivariana University (UPB) in Medellín, Colombia. Bachelor's thesis (in Spanish): Samuel Bustamante, "Prótesis robótica de miembro superior controlada por medio de interfaces neuronales: el estado del arte y un diseño conceptual" [pdf available]. Supervised by Prof. Dr. Julio César Correa during a research stay at UPB's Automatics & Design Research Group A+D in Medellín.