Multimodal interfaces for rehabilitation and assistive robotics

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• Professor Nicolas M. Garcia Aracil
• Tuesday 07 June 2016, 11:00-12:00
• Dennis Gabor Seminar Room (611), EEE Department.

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Abstract: The inclusion of the patient/user in the control loop can be justified because of its potential impact on better therapeutic treatments tailored to patient/user needs. In the first part of the presentation, the results of one european project, called MAAT , will be presented. MAAT rehabilitation system is based on the acquisition of behavioural and physiological data from the patient to adaptively and dynamically change the complexity of therapy task and the real-time displays of an immersive virtual reality system in accordance with specific patient requirements. The ultimate twofold goal of MAAT project was (i) to maximise patient motivation and involvement in the therapy by favouring his/her active role and performing daily life activities; (ii) to continuously assess the progress of the recovery from the functional and neurological viewpoint, with special attention to the issue of safety in human-robot interaction. In the second part of the presentation, the european project AIDE : Adaptive Multimodal Interfaces to Assist Disabled People in Daily Activities will be presented. The AIDE project has the ambition to strongly contributing to the improvement of the user-technology interface by developing and testing a modular and adaptive multimodal interface customisable to the individual needs of people with disabilities. It will, furthermore, focus on the development of a totally new shared-control paradigm for assistive devices that integrates information from identification of residual abilities, behaviours, emotional state and intentions of the user on one hand and analysis of the environment and context factors on the other hand.

Speaker Bio:

Prof. Nicolas M. Garcia-Aracil (M) is Associate Professor of Control and Systems Engineering at Miguel Hernandez University (Spain) and head of the Virtual Reality and Robotics Lab. He holds a M.Sc. in Control Engineering by the University of Murcia (1996, Spain), Master in Design, Robotics and Industrial Automation from University of Murcia (Spain) 1996-1997 and a PhD in Control Engineering by the Miguel Hernandez University of Elche (Spain). He has been appointed as Visiting Scientist at INRIA (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique), Sophia Antipolis, FRANCE ), in 2003 and at Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, DLR , Oberpfaffenhofen-Wessling, Germany, in 2006. His current research interests are medical and rehabilitation robotics, medical image, computer vision, human-robot Interaction and design and control of new robotic devices. Dr. Nicolas Garcia was a 2004 recipient of the Best Thesis in Robotics, National Research Prize, from the Spanish Federation of Automatic control. He is author or co-author of a broad range of research publications. He was the Program Chair of the 2012 IEEE RAS \EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BIOROB, Roma, Italy) and the General Chair of EURON Winter School on Rehabilitation Robotics (Elche, Spain). He is the coordinator of of AIDE -Adaptive Multimodal Interfaces to Assist Disabled People in Daily Activities (2015-2018). European Union, H2020 -ICT-2014-1, Grant Agreement number: 645322.

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