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Bio-inspired design and validation of the Efficient Lockable Spring Ankle (ELSA) prosthesis

Mohamed Bouri, François André Heremans

Over the last decade, active lower-limb prostheses demonstrated their ability to restore a physiological gait for transfemoral amputees by supplying the required positive energy balance during daily life locomotion activities. However, the added-value of s ...

IEEE2019

From bio-inspired locomotion models To controllers for lower-limb exoskeletons

Florin Dzeladini

Human locomotion shows fascinating abilities which are the results of the interplay between the environment, the biomechanics, the spinal cord, and modulation from higher control centers. How the different structures interact to generate meaningful behavio ...

EPFL2019

A Rule Synthesis Algorithm for Programmable Stochastic Self-Assembly of Robotic Modules

Alcherio Martinoli, Bahar Haghighat

Programmable self-assembly of modular robots offers promising means for structure formation at different scales. Rule-based approaches have been previously employed for distributed control of stochastic self-assembly processes. The assembly rate in the pro ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2019

Implantable Neural Interfaces and Wearable Tactile Systems for Bidirectional Neuroprosthetics Systems

Silvestro Micera

Neuroprosthetics and neuromodulation represent a promising field for several related applications in the central and peripheral nervous system, such as the treatment of neurological disorders, the control of external robotic devices, and the restoration of ...

WILEY2019

The Cybathlon BCI race: Successful longitudinal mutual learning with two tetraplegic users

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Luca Tonin, Serafeim Perdikis, Sareh Saeedi, Christoph Schneider

This work aims at corroborating the importance and efficacy of mutual learning in motor imagery (MI) brain–computer interface (BCI) by leveraging the insights obtained through our participation in the BCI race of the Cybathlon event. We hypothesized that, ...

2018

When deictic gestures in a robot can harm child-robot collaboration

Pierre Dillenbourg, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Elmira Yadollahi

This paper describes research aimed at supporting children's reading practices using a robot designed to interact with children as their reading companion. We use a learning by teaching scenario in which the robot has a similar or lower reading level compa ...

ACM2018

Spine Controller for a Sprawling Posture Robot

Auke Ijspeert, Kamilo Andres Melo Becerra, Tomislav Horvat

More and more biologically inspired robots present spines with multiples degrees of freedom to resemble their biological counterparts. The function of the spine on both animal and robot can play an important role in locomotion. If it has enough degrees of ...

2017

Adaptive Lévy Taxis for Odor Source Localization in Realistic Environmental Conditions

Alcherio Martinoli, Ali Marjovi, Faezeh Rahbar

Odor source localization with mobile robots has recently been subject to many research works, but remains a challenging task mainly due to the large number of environmental parameters that make it hard to describe gas concentration fields. We designed a ne ...

2017

Design and Computational Modeling of a Modular, Compliant Robotic Assembly for Human Lumbar Unit and Spinal Cord Assistance

Jamie Paik, Harshal Arun Sonar, Matthew Aaron Robertson, Gunjan Agarwal

Wearable soft robotic systems are enabling safer human-robot interaction and are proving to be instrumental for biomedical rehabilitation. In this manuscript, we propose a novel, modular, wearable robotic device for human (lumbar) spine assistance that is ...

Nature Research2017