Advanced and Hybrid Solutions for Wearable Assistive Technologies
ICNR 2024 Special Session - Rehabilitation Robotics Track
📆 Wednesday, November 6, 2024
🕒 9:15-10:45
📌 La Granja, Spain
🦿 Conference Track C - Rehabilitation Robotics
👩💼👨💼📋 Chairs : Federico Masiero, Enrica Tricomi
Abstract
In the ever-evolving landscape of assistive technologies, "Advanced and Hybrid solutions for Wearable Assistive Technologies" is a groundbreaking special session that explores the cutting-edge developments in the field. Wearable technologies and prostheses have made remarkable strides in enhancing the quality of life for individuals with motor impairments and disabilities. Among all the developments brought by one century of modern research in the field, the search for intuitive and naturally perceived human-machine interfaces still remains a hot research topic.
"Advanced and Hybrid solutions for wearable assistive technologies" promises to be an invaluable opportunity for researchers and practitioners in the field. This special session delves into innovative strategies that empower users and improve the functionality of these devices. In particular, it will feature a collection of research articles and case studies that shed light on the latest advancements on novel control methods, including sensorimotor integration in assistive wearable technologies. The selected line of speakers will share their expertise in the mentioned relevant topics: we will span from latest advances in context-awareness applied to soft robotic suits to invasive technologies aiming at restoring lost motor functions in amputees. Finally, after the speech of the invited speakers, attendees will engage in an open discussion centered around shaping the future of assistive technology with a human-in-the-loop approach.
Topics of Interest
Topics covered in this special issue will include, but are not limited to:
- brain-machine interfaces
- implanted magnets: myokinetic interface
- embodiment
- semi-autonomous wearable devices
- online musculoskeletal modeling
- neurorehabilitation
- advanced sensing and sensor fusion algorithms
- model based adaptive control systems
- hybrid robot-functional electric stimulation
- integration of vision and artificial intelligence for assistance modulation.
Program Schedule
| Time | Speaker | Talk Title |
| 9:15 – 9:30 | Strahinja Dosen | Wearable interface for high-density bidirectional human-machine interfacing |
| 9:30 – 9:45 | Flavia Paggetti | Restoration of grasping in an upper limb amputee using the myokinetic prosthesis with implanted magnets |
| 9:45 – 10:00 | Cristian Felipe Blanco-Diaz | Exploring osseoperception at the wrist: towards an augmented sensory feedback interface |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | Camilla Pierella | Testing linear or non linear mapping algorithms for a hybrid body-machine interface that combines movement and muscle signals |
| 10:15 – 10:30 | Cristina Piazza | Towards embodied myoelectric prostheses: exploring motor-cognitive effects in immersive virtual reality |
About some speakers
Strahinja Dosen
| Strahinja Dosen received the Diploma of Engineering in Electrical Engineering and the M.Sc. degree in Biomedical Engineering in 2000 and 2004, respectively, from the Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia, and the Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering from the Center for Sensory-Motor Interaction, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark, in 2008. From 2011 to 2017, he worked as a Research Scientist at the Institute for Neurorehabilitation Systems, University Medical Center Gottingen, Germany, and then as an Associate Professor at the Department of Health Science and Technology (HST), Aalborg University (AAU), Denmark. Currently, he is a Full Professor in Rehab Robotics at the same Department where he leads a research group on Neurorehabilitation Systems. Prof. Dosen was a principal investigator for AAU and HST in several EU (Tactility, Wearplex, Sixthsense, and SimBionics) and nationally (Robin, Remap, and Climb) funded projects. He has published more than 100 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals. His main research interest is in the closed-loop control of movements and assistive systems, including human-machine interfacing, control of bionic limbs and rehabilitation robotics, artificial sensory feedback, haptics, and functional electrical stimulation. Talk Title: Wearable interface for high-density bidirectional human-machine interfacing |
Cristina Piazza
| Prof. Piazza received a B.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, an MS in Automation and Robotics Engineering and a PhD degree in Robotics (summa cum laude, 2019) from the University of Pisa (Italy). She subsequently moved to Chicago (USA) where she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University and the Regenstein Foundation Center for Bionic Medicine, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab (former Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago). Since 2020, Prof. Piazza is assistant professor for Heathcare and Rehabilitation Robotics at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). Talk Title: |
Organizers
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Federico Masiero | Leonardo Cappello | Enrica Tricomi | Lorenzo Masia |
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| European MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany federico.masiero@ziti.uni-heidelberg.de | Assistant Professor, BioRobotics Institute, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy l.cappello@santannapisa.it | PhD Student, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany enrica.tricomi@ziti.uni-heidelberg.de | Full Professor, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany lorenzo.masia@tum.de |