Prof.dr.ir Massimo Sartori giving a plenary talk at the Summer School on NeuroRehabilitation (SSNR 2023) taking place every year in Baiona, Spain on June 15, 2023.
Title: Shifting the paradigm: advanced human-robot interfaces for movement support technologies
Abstract: Neuromuscular injuries leave millions of people disabled worldwide every year. The impact of current rehabilitation technologies is hampered by the limited knowledge of their physical interaction with the human body. That is, rehabilitation devices such as robotic exoskeletons or neuromodulation devices, interact with the human body with no feedback of how biological targets (e.g., bones, tendons, muscles, nerves) react and adapt to mechanical or electrical stimuli, especially at extreme ends of the spatio-temporal scale, e.g., cell-to-organ growth over days, months or years. This talk will outline current work conducted in my Lab to create a new framework for ‘closing-the-loop’ between wearable technology and human biology. My talk will show initial results on how bio-electrical recordings, numerical modelling and artificial intelligence can be combined to study how the human neuro-muscular system responds over time to robotic interventions in vivo. The talk will show examples of how this paradigm can be translated towards the development of novel human-robot interfaces for restoring human movement and for preserving biological tissue integrity over time.
Website: https://2023.summerschoolneurorehabilitation.org/plenary-lectures/
