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Augmenting rehabilitation robotics with spinal cord neuromodulation: A proof of concept

Auke Ijspeert, Léonie Asboth, Salif Axel Komi, Grégoire Courtine, Miroslav Caban, Camille Claire Varescon, Nicolas Hankov, Fabien Bertrand Paul Wagner, Robin Jonathan Demesmaeker, Margaux Roulet, Jocelyne Bloch, Henri Charles Alexandre Lorach, Edeny Baaklini, Jimmy James Ravier, Francesco Acquati, Cathal John Harte, Nadine Intering, Frédéric Norbert Merlos

Rehabilitation robotics aims to promote activity-dependent reorganization of the nervous system. However, people with paralysis cannot generate sufficient activity during robot-assisted rehabilitation and, consequently, do not benefit from these therapies. ...

AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE2025

Neuroimaging to Guide the Delivery of Implantable Neuroprosthetics Restoring Neurological Functions

Sergio Daniel Hernandez

Spinal cord injury (SCI) and Parkinson's disease (PD) are debilitating conditions that severely disrupt motor and autonomic functions, profoundly affecting the quality of life for millions worldwide. Over the past few decades, epidural electrical stimulati ...

EPFL2025

About the process of technology transfer from research to engineering practice

Eugen Brühwiler

The transfer of technology from research to structural engineering and construction practice is illustrated using two cases of the implementation of innovative engineering methods and technologies in the renewal and 'upcycling' of existing bridges, namely ...

Informa UK Limited2025

Automated Selectivity-Driven Algorithm for Transcutaneous Spinal Cord Stimulation

Mohamed Bouri, Solaiman Shokur, Silvestro Micera, Riccardo Carpineto, Mouhamed Zorkot

Spinal cord injury (SCI) impairs motor function and quality of life. Transcutaneous Spinal Cord Stimulation (tSCS) is a non-invasive method to restore motor function by activating spinal circuits below the lesion. However, its effectiveness is limited by i ...

IEEE2025

Towards Accessible and Intuitive Shared Autonomy

Shalutha Navindu Rajapakshe Rajapakshe Mudiyanselage

The deployment of assistive robotics technologies in human environments is often hindered by the diverse personalization requirements of individual users. A promising solution to this challenge is shared autonomy, enabling collaboration between robots and ...

IEEE2025

A new method to interpolate POD reduced bases-Application to the parametric model order reduction of a gas bearings supported rotor

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann, Fabio Nobile, Dimitri Maurice Goutaudier

The proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) is successfully employed in a variety of projection-based methods for parametric model order reduction (pMOR) of large dynamical systems. It extracts the most energetic modes describing the dynamics of a system fro ...

Wiley2023

The Natural Robotics Contest: crowdsourced biomimetic design

Raphael Zufferey

Biomimetic and bioinspired design is not only a potent resource for roboticists looking to develop robust engineering systems or understand the natural world. It is also a uniquely accessible entry point into science and technology. Every person on Earth c ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Training Provably Robust Models by Polyhedral Envelope Regularization

Mathieu Salzmann, Sabine Süsstrunk, Chen Liu

Training certifiable neural networks enables us to obtain models with robustness guarantees against adversarial attacks. In this work, we introduce a framework to obtain a provable adversarial-free region in the neighborhood of the input data by a polyhedr ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2023

Multi-scale and cross-dimensional TMS mapping: A proof of principle in patients with Parkinson's disease and deep brain stimulation

Sylvain Jean-François Harquel, Estelle Emeline Raffin

IntroductionTranscranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) mapping has become a critical tool for exploratory studies of the human corticomotor (M1) organization. Here, we propose to gather existing cutting-edge TMS-EMG and TMS-EEG approaches into a combined mult ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2023

An improved subthreshold swing expression accounting for back-gate bias in FDSOI FETs

Christian Enz, Farzan Jazaeri, Hung-Chi Han

In a MOSFET transistor, the subthreshold swing defines the switching efficiency, and the associated slope factor, or so-called body factor, is a critical parameter in charge-based models. However, in an advanced Fully -Depleted Silicon-On-Insulator (FDSOI) ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2023

Optimal grid-forming control of battery energy storage systems providing multiple services: Modeling and experimental validation

Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Mario Paolone, Zhao Yuan, Elena Vagnoni, Rahul Kumar Gupta, Antonio Zecchino, Yihui Zuo, Francesco Gerini

This paper proposes and experimentally validates a joint control and scheduling framework for a grid-forming converter-interfaced Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESSs) providing multiple services to the electrical grid. The framework is designed to dispat ...

Elsevier2022

A Compressor Off-Line Washing Schedule Optimization Method With a LSTM Deep Learning Model Predicting the Fouling Trend

Jinwei Chen

Compressor fouling is one of the most prevalent fault modes that contribute to the performance degradation of a gas turbine power plant. Off-line washing is a standard maintenance procedure to recover the fouling degradation, but with washing cost. In this ...

2022

A Bistable Silicon Photonic Mems Phase Switch For Nonvolatile Photonic Circuits

Niels Quack, Alain Yuji Takabayashi

Silicon photonic circuits are rapidly growing in complexity and spreading to new applications. However, programmable circuits consume much power and require active electrical interfaces. For the first time, we demonstrate a nonvolatile photonic MEMS pi-pha ...

IEEE2022

Thin, flexible, and scalable mobile robot driven by electrostatic zipping actuators

Herbert Shea, Djen Timo Kühnel

Small-scale soft mobile robots are an attractive solution to gain access to hard-to-reach places. We demonstrate a thin (similar to 4 mm) and flexible mobile robot, 8 cm x 9 cm, mass 4 g, that uses 6 electrostatic zipping actuators with hydraulic coupling, ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2022

Revitalisation des deltas lacustres : Quelle méthodologie adopter pour améliorer les services écosystémiques et bénéfices environnementaux ? / River mouth revitalization design, how to improve ecosystem services and environmental benefits of engineering work?

Giovanni De Cesare, Alexandre Philippe Louis Antoine Fourrier

Les deltas lacustres sont des systèmes largement anthropisés rendant des services écosystémiques importants à l’Homme et à son environnement. Les travaux de protection contre les crues du siècle passé ont conduit à considérer l’embouchure comme un vecteur ...

2022

Actuation bandwidth extension of an integrated piezo-optomechanical nanophotonic device

Tobias Kippenberg, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Junqiu Liu, Wenle Weng, Anat Siddharth

We demonstrate a novel technique of contour-mode suppression of an integrated MEMS-photonic chip up to the first HBAR mode at 17 MHz. The flattened actuation response is critical to the development of compact LiDAR engine or low-noise frequency-agile laser ...

IEEE2021