The teleoperation of nonhumanoid robots is often a demanding task, as most current control interfaces rely on mappings between the operator’s and the robot’s actions, which are determined by the design and characteristics of the interface, and may therefor ...

2018

A Robotic System for Adaptive Training and Function Assessment of Forelimb Retraction in Mice

Silvestro Micera, Sara Conti, Maria Pasquini, Stefano Lai

Rodent models are decisive for translational research in healthy and pathological conditions of motor function thanks to specific similarities with humans. Here, we present an upgraded version of the M-Platform, a robotic device previously designed to trai ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2018

Comparison of linear frequency and amplitude modulation for intraneural sensory feedback in bidirectional hand prostheses

Pablo Garcia del Valle, Edoardo D'Anna, Silvestro Micera, Stanisa Raspopovic, Francesco Maria Petrini, Ivo Strauss, Giacomo Valle, Francesco Iberite

Recent studies have shown that direct nerve stimulation can be used to provide sensory feedback to hand amputees. The intensity of the elicited sensations can be modulated using the amplitude or frequency of the injected stimuli. However, a comprehensive c ...

Nature Research2018

A sensory information compliant spinal cord stimulation system for the rehabilitation of motor functions

Silvestro Micera, Grégoire Courtine, Emanuele Formento, Marco Capogrosso, Karen Minassian

The present invention refers to a system for stimulation of the spinal cord for the rehabilitation of motor function in subjects with spinal cord injury or other motor disorders. Said system comprises a programmable implantable pulse generator (IPG), opera ...

2018

EEG Decoding of Overground Walking and Resting, a Feasibility Study

Silvestro Micera, Fiorenzo Artoni, Elena Massai

2018

Biomimetic Intraneural Sensory Feedback Enhances Sensation Naturalness, Tactile Sensitivity, and Manual Dexterity in a Bidirectional Prosthesis

Giulio Rognini, Edoardo D'Anna, Silvestro Micera, Francesco Maria Petrini, Ivo Strauss, Giacomo Valle, Francesco Iberite

Peripheral intraneural stimulation can provide tactile information to amputees. However, efforts are still necessary to identify encoding strategy eliciting percepts that are felt as both natural and effective for prosthesis control. Here we compared the n ...

2018

Intrafascicular electrode implant

Silvestro Micera, Stanisa Raspopovic, Francesco Maria Petrini

An implantable device for intrafascicular stimulation and/or sensing of a peripheral nerve, including a blocking element adapted for wrapping a nerve, comprising an access point and an exit point, and an electrode adapted to traverse the blocking element v ...

2018

System to deliver adaptive epidural and/or subdural electrical spinal cord stimulation to facilitate and restore locomotion after a neuromotor impairment

Silvestro Micera, Grégoire Courtine, Nikolaus Wenger, Marco Bonizzato, Eduardo Martin Moraud

The present disclosure provides a closed-loop system for real-time control of epidural and/or subdural electrical stimulation comprising means for applying to a subject neuromodulation with adjustable stimulation parameters, said means being operatively co ...

2018

Bilateral cortical representation of tactile roughness

Silvestro Micera, Fiorenzo Artoni

Roughness is the most important feature for texture discrimination. Here we investigate how the bilateral cortical representation of touch is modulated by tactile roughness by analyzing the neural responses elicited by stimuli with various coarseness level ...

2018

EEG topographies provide subject-specific correlates of motor control

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Elvira Pirondini, Silvestro Micera, Martina Coscia, Jesús Minguillón Campos

Electroencephalography (EEG) of brain activity can be represented in terms of dynamically changing topographies (microstates). Notably, spontaneous brain activity recorded at rest can be characterized by four distinctive topographies. Despite their well-es ...

Nature Research2017

System for selective spatiotemporal stimulation of the spinal cord

Silvestro Micera, Grégoire Courtine, Nikolaus Wenger, Marco Capogrosso, Jocelyne Bloch

The present disclosure refers to systems for electrical neurostimulation of a spinal cord of a subject in need of nervous system function support. In one example, a system comprises a signal processing device configured to receive signals from the subject ...

2017

A somatotopic bidirectional hand prosthesis with transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation based sensory feedback

Silvestro Micera, Stanisa Raspopovic, Francesco Maria Petrini, Fiorenzo Artoni

According to amputees, sensory feedback is amongst the most important features lacking from commercial prostheses. Although restoration of touch by means of implantable neural interfaces has been achieved, these approaches require surgical interventions, a ...

Nature Research2017

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