Publications related to Effectiveness of a Robot-Mediated Strategy While Counteracting Multidirectional Slippages

Related publications (25)

Three-dimensional evaluation of the transverse rotator cuff muscle's resultant force angle in relation to scapulohumeral subluxation and glenoid vault morphology in nonpathological shoulders

Alexandre Terrier, Alain Farron, Patrick Goetti, Pezhman Eghbalishamsabadi, Matthieu Boubat

Background: Static posterior subluxation of the humeral head (SPSH) results in glenohumeral osteoarthritis. Treatment strategies for SPSH with or without resulting osteoarthritis remain challenging. There is growing interest in evaluating the rotator cuff ...

Mosby-Elsevier2024

Discontinuous Galerkin methods for Fisher-Kolmogorov equation with application to a-synuclein spreading in Parkinson's disease

Alfio Quarteroni, Francesca Bonizzoni

This spreading of prion proteins is at the basis of brain neurodegeneration. This paper deals with the numerical modelling of the misfolding process of a-synuclein in Parkinson's disease. We introduce and analyse a discontinuous Galerkin method for the sem ...

Elsevier Science Sa2023

Privacy-preserving contact tracing curbed COVID

Marcel Salathé

Despite controversies over decentralized contact-tracing apps, the data now show that they saved thousands of lives during the pandemic. National and international authorities must heed the lessons. ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

Investigating the roles of reflexes and central pattern generators in the control and modulation of human locomotion using a physiologically plausible neuromechanical model

Auke Ijspeert, Andrea Di Russo, Dimitar Yuriev Stanev

Objective. Studying the neural components regulating movement in human locomotion is obstructed by the inability to perform invasive experimental recording in the human neural circuits. Neuromechanical simulations can provide insights by modeling the locom ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2023

On the interplay effect for moving targets treated with the CyberKnife static tracking system

François Bochud, Yihan Jia

Purpose: To assess the interplay effect amplitude between different planned MU distributions and respiratory patterns in the CyberKnife system when treating moving targets with static tracking technique. Methods: Small-and Large-Respiratory Motions (SRM an ...

2021

Supervised Learning With Perceptual Similarity for Multimodal Gene Expression Registration of a Mouse Brain Atlas

Henry Markram, Felix Schürmann, Daniel Keller, Csaba Erö, Huanxiang Lu, Dimitri Bruno Marie Rodarie, Francesco Casalegno, Jan Krepl, Emilie Delattre

The acquisition of high quality maps of gene expression in the rodent brain is of fundamental importance to the neuroscience community. The generation of such datasets relies on registering individual gene expression images to a reference volume, a task en ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2021

Adaptive Regularization For Three-Dimensional Optical Diffraction Tomography

Michaël Unser, Demetri Psaltis, Emmanuel Emilien Louis Soubies, Thanh-An Michel Pham, Ahmed Bassam Sayed Ayoub Mohamed Emam

Optical diffraction tomography (ODT) allows one to quantitatively measure the distribution of the refractive index of the sample. It relies on the resolution of an inverse scattering problem. Due to the limited range of views as well as optical aberrations ...

IEEE2020

Exploring the Contribution of Proprioceptive Reflexes to Balance Control in Perturbed Standing

Auke Ijspeert, Anne Daniëlle Koelewijn

Humans control balance using different feedback loops involving the vestibular system, the visual system, and proprioception. In this article, we focus on proprioception and explore the contribution of reflexes based on force and length feedback to standin ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2020

Lumbar and thoracic kinematics during step-up: Comparison of three-dimensional angles between patients with chronic low back pain and asymptomatic individuals

Julien Favre, Brigitte Jolles-Haeberli

While alterations in spinal kinematics have been repeatedly observed in patients with chronic low back pain (CLBP), their exact nature is still unknown. Specifically, there is a need for comprehensive assessments of multisegment spinal angles during daily- ...

2020

Accurate Nod and 3D Gaze Estimation for Social Interaction Analysis

Yu Yu

Non-verbal behaviours play an important role in human communication since it can indicate human attention, serve as communication cue in interactions, or even reveal higher level personal constructs. For instance, head nod, a common non-verbal behaviour, c ...

EPFL2020

Balance Control Strategies during Standing in a Locked-Ankle Passive Exoskeleton

Hannes Bleuler, Mohamed Bouri, Jemina Fasola, Romain Pierre François Baud, Tristan Hubert Vouga

This paper investigates sensorimotor adaptation strategies of sagittal postural control in healthy subjects under kinematic constraints. A passive exoskeleton named CAPTUR, with locked ankle joints and legs motion restrained to the sagittal plane is used t ...

IEEE2019

A novel approach to Landau damping of transverse collective instabilities in future hadron colliders

Michael Schenk

Transverse collective instabilities induced by the beam-coupling impedance of the accelerator structure lead to beam quality degradation and pose a major limitation to the machine performance. Landau damping, a powerful stabilising mechanism that can be em ...

EPFL2019

Chronic low back pain patients walk with locally altered spinal kinematics

Julien Favre, Brigitte Jolles-Haeberli

Various studies have reported alterations of spinal kinematics in patients with chronic low back pain (CLBP) during gait. However, while recent findings stressed the importance of multi-segment analysis, most of prior gait studies modelled the lumbar spine ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2017

Drift Reduction for Inertial Sensor Based Orientation and Position Estimation in the Presence of High Dynamic Variability During Competitive Skiing and Daily-Life Walking

Benedikt Fasel

Nowadays inertial sensors are extensively used for gait analysis. They can be used to perform temporal event detection (i.e. step detection) and to estimate the orientation of the feet and other body segments to determine walking speed and distance. Usuall ...

EPFL2017

Upper limb rehabilitation system

Giulio Rognini

The invention relates to an upper limb rehabilitation system for rehabilitating an upper limb of a subject and comprising a mobile platform coupled to a fixed platform. The mobile platform comprises an articulate handle assembly movable, during a rehabilit ...

2016

First implementation of transversely split proton beams in the CERN Proton Synchrotron for the fixed-target physics programme

Cedric Jean-François Hernalsteens

A new extraction technique has been studied at the CERN Proton Synchrotron with a view of using it for the fixed-target physics programme at the Super Proton Synchrotron. The extraction scheme is based on advanced concepts of non-linear beam dynamics: prio ...

Epl Association, European Physical Society2016

Multi-segment analysis of spinal kinematics during sit-to-stand in patients with chronic low back pain

Julien Favre

While alterations in spinal kinematics have been frequently reported in patients with chronic low back pain (CLBP), a better characterization of the kinematics during functional activities is needed to improve our understanding and therapeutic solutions fo ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2016

Monitoring of strain profile variations in the RC slab of a short span railway bridge

Eugen Brühwiler, Vasileios Grigoriou

A novel monitoring scheme oriented towards the structural examination of reinforced concrete slabs subject to railway traffic action is presented. Monitoring is based on the measurement of the mean axial strain profile variation in the cross-section of the ...

Springer Heidelberg2016

Comparing the effect of different spine and leg designs for a small bounding quadruped robot

Auke Ijspeert, Alexander Spröwitz, Peter Eckert

We present Lynx-robot, a quadruped, modular, compliant machine. It alternately features a directly actuated, single-joint spine design, or an actively supported, passive compliant, multi-joint spine conﬁguration. Both spine con- ﬁgurations bend in the sagi ...

2015

Single florescent nanodiamond in a three dimensional ABEL trap

Aleksandra Radenovic, Metin Kayci

Three dimensional single particle trapping and manipulation is an outstanding challenge in various fields ranging from basic physics to life sciences. By monitoring the response of a trapped particle to a designed environment one can extract its characteri ...

Nature Publishing Group2015