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Effect of Extrinsic Reward on Motor Plasticity during Skill Learning

Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Pierre Theopistos Vassiliadis

Human motor skill acquisition is improved by performance feedback, and coupling such feedback with extrinsic reward (such as money) can enhance skill learning. However, the neurophysiology underlying such behavioral effect is unclear. To bridge this gap, w ...

2025

Soft Transfemoral Prosthetic Socket With Sensing and Augmenting Feedback: A Case Study

Silvestro Micera

In lower limb prostheses, the physical interface constituted by the socket is a crucial component for the device success. This work proposes a new design based on a rigid frame integrated into a silicone structure which allows for a more comfortable biomec ...

Piscataway2024

Online Optimization of Central Pattern Generators for Quadruped Locomotion

Zewei Zhang, Auke Ijspeert, Guillaume Denis Antoine Bellegarda, Milad Shafiee Ashtiani

Typical legged locomotion controllers are designed or trained offline. This is in contrast to many animals, which are able to locomote at birth, and rapidly improve their locomotion skills with few real-world interactions. Such motor control is possible th ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

AI-CPG: Adaptive Imitated Central Pattern Generators for Bipedal Locomotion Learned Through Reinforced Reflex Neural Networks

Auke Ijspeert

Humans have many redundancies in their bodies and can make effective use of them to adapt to changes in the environment while walking. They can also vary their walking speed in a wide range. Human-like walking in simulation or by robots can be achieved thr ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

Haptigami: a fingertip haptic interface with vibrotactile and 3-DoF cutaneous force feedback

Jamie Paik, Sagar Dattatray Joshi, Frédéric Henri Vaskin Giraud

Wearable fingertip haptic devices aim to deliver somatosensory feedback for applications such as virtual reality, rehabilitation, and enhancing hardware/physical control interfaces. However, providing various kinds of feedback requires several Degrees of F ...

2022

Investigating neural resource allocation in the sensorimotor control of extra limbs

Giulia Dominijanni

The rise of robotic body augmentation brings forth new developments that will transform robotics, human-machine interaction, and wearable electronics. Extra robotic limbs, although building upon restorative technologies, bring their own set of challenges i ...

EPFL2024

Brain network modulation in transradial amputee with finger perception restored through biomimetic intraneural stimulation

Silvestro Micera, Giacomo Valle, Fabrizio Vecchio

Introduction/aims The hand is a sophisticated tool which allows humans to interact with the external world mainly via the sense of touch. Previous evidences demonstrated that electrical stimulations of the nerve trunks governing the hand are able to restor ...

SPRINGER-VERLAG ITALIA SRL2021

Current Solutions and Future Trends for Robotic Prosthetic Hands

Silvestro Micera, Solaiman Shokur, Vincent Alexandre Mendez

The desire for functional replacement of a missing hand is an ancient one. Historically, humans have replaced a missing limb with a prosthesis for cosmetic, vocational, or personal autonomy reasons. The hand is a powerful tool, and its loss causes severe p ...

ANNUAL REVIEWS2021

Improving hand prosthesis control with advanced single-finger proportional decoding and robotic shared control

Vincent Alexandre Mendez

Myoelectric prostheses allow users to recover lost functionality by controlling a robotic device with their remaining muscle activity. Commercial devices usually use a two-recording-channel system placed on specific muscles to control a single degree of fr ...

EPFL2023

Soft bioelectronic technologies for selective and multimodal peripheral nerve interfaces

Valentina Marie Paggi

The peripheral nervous system (PNS) regulates the exchange of sensory information and motor commands between the body and the central nervous system. Further, through the autonomic nervous system, the PNS plays a pivotal role in controlling vital physiolog ...

EPFL2023

Sensitivity to temporal parameters of intraneural tactile sensory feedback

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

Background Recent studies have shown that neural stimulation can be used to provide artificial sensory feedback to amputees eliciting sensations referred on the amputated hand. The temporal properties of the neural stimulation modulate aspects of evoked se ...

BioMed Central2020

Hand Control With Invasive Feedback Is Not Impaired by Increased Cognitive Load

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

Recent experiments have shown that neural stimulation can successfully restore sensory feedback in upper-limb amputees improving their ability to control the prosthesis. However, the potential advantages of invasive sensory feedback with respect to non-inv ...

2020

Development of a new visual prosthesis for preclinical studies on artificial vision

Marta Jole Ildelfonsa Airaghi Leccardi

The technological evolution in materials science and microengineering favored the production of advanced visual prostheses useful for fighting blindness and to improve patients quality of life. Visual prostheses aim at replacing lost visual functions by ar ...

EPFL2020

Motor improvement estimation and task adaptation for personalized robot-aided therapy: a feasibility study

Silvestro Micera, Martina Coscia, Elvira Pirondini, Christian Giang, Nawal Noëlle Kinany, Jenifer Cléa Miehlbradt, Camilla Pierella

Background In the past years, robotic systems have become increasingly popular in upper limb rehabilitation. Nevertheless, clinical studies have so far not been able to confirm superior efficacy of robotic therapy over conventional methods. The personaliza ...

2020

Brain reactions to the use of sensorized hand prosthesis in amputees

Silvestro Micera, Ivo Strauss, Stanisa Raspopovic, Giacomo Valle, Francesco Maria Petrini, Fabrizio Vecchio, Edoardo D'Anna

Objective We investigated for the first time the presence of chronic changes in the functional organization of sensorimotor brain areas induced by prolonged training with a bidirectional hand prosthesis. Methods A multimodal neurophysiological and neuroima ...

2020

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

Optimal integration of intraneural somatosensory feedback with visual information: a single-case study

Silvestro Micera, Ivo Strauss, Giacomo Valle

Providing somatosensory feedback to amputees is a long-standing objective in prosthesis research. Recently, implantable neural interfaces have yielded promising results in this direction. There is now considerable evidence that the nervous system integrate ...

Nature Research2019

Bidirectional bionic limbs: a perspective bridging technology and physiology

Silvestro Micera

Precise control of bionic limbs relies on robust decoding of motor commands from nerves or muscles signals and sensory feedback from artificial limbs to the nervous system by interfacing the afferent nerve pathways. Implantable devices for bidirectional co ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

A closed-loop hand prosthesis with simultaneous intraneural tactile and position feedback

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

Current myoelectric prostheses allow transradial amputees to regain voluntary motor control of their artificial limb by exploiting residual muscle function in the forearm. However, the overreliance on visual cues resulting from a lack of sensory feedback i ...

AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE2019

Wearable Ultrasound Interface for Prosthetic Hand Manipulation

Xingchen Yang

Ultrasound can non-invasively detect muscle deformations, which has great potential applications in prosthetic hand control. This research developed a miniaturized ultrasound device that could be integrated into a prosthetic hand socket. This compact syste ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2022