WAY
Wearable interfaces for hAnd function recoverY
| Coordinatore | SCUOLA SUPERIORE DI STUDI UNIVERSITARI E DI PERFEZIONAMENTO SANT'ANNA
Organization address
address: Viale Rinaldo Piaggio 34 contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | Italy [IT] |
| Totale costo | 2˙932˙152 € |
| EC contributo | 2˙249˙843 € |
| Programma | FP7-ICT
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies |
| Code Call | FP7-ICT-2011-7 |
| Funding Scheme | CP |
| Anno di inizio | 2011 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2011-10-01 - 2015-05-31 |
Partecipanti
| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
SCUOLA SUPERIORE DI STUDI UNIVERSITARI E DI PERFEZIONAMENTO SANT'ANNA
Organization address
address: Viale Rinaldo Piaggio 34 contact info |
IT (Pontedera) | coordinator | 0.00 |
| 2 |
Nome Ente NON disponibile
Organization address
address: Grjothals 5 contact info |
IS (Reykjavik) | participant | 0.00 |
| 3 |
EBERHARD KARLS UNIVERSITAET TUEBINGEN
Organization address
address: GESCHWISTER-SCHOLL-PLATZ contact info |
DE (TUEBINGEN) | participant | 0.00 |
| 4 |
FUNDACIO PRIVADA INSTITUT DE NEUROREHABILITACIO GUTTMANN
Organization address
address: CALLE CAMI DE CAN RUTI SN contact info |
ES (BADALONA) | participant | 0.00 |
| 5 |
SCUOLA UNIVERSITARIA PROFESSIONALE DELLA SVIZZERA ITALIANA (SUPSI)
Organization address
address: STABILE LE GERRE contact info |
CH (MANNO) | participant | 0.00 |
| 6 |
UMEA UNIVERSITET
Organization address
address: UNIVERSITETOMRADET contact info |
SE (UMEA) | participant | 0.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
This project addresses the scientific problem of recovery of hand function after amputation, or neurological disabilities like spinal cord injury, brachial plexus injury, and stroke. It introduces several conceptual novelties which explicitly take into account and overcome the limited band-width in actual Brain-Neural Communication Interfaces (BNCI). WAY demonstrators are able to restore a physiological bidirectional link between artificial aids and patients, and will be shown in clinical studies to improve the ability of users to perform activities of daily living (ADL) and thus to attain enhanced autonomy and quality of life. In other words, the project investigates new WAYs to link the brain with upper limb aids.nThis result is obtainable by employing already available sensorized hand assistive devices within the consortium--a dexterous prosthesis and an exoskeleton--and by developing non-invasive wearable interfaces designed for bidirectional data flow of sensory information and motor commands.nThe BNCI of WAY range in location, directionality, and working principles: efferent ones will implement biosignal processing exploiting machine learning for predicting user intentions (EEG, EOG, or EMG), while afferent ones will generate multi-modal stimulation patterns (vibro and electrotactile). The core of the system is the controller that dynamically processes sensor signals generated by the users and the device and drives efferent channels. The main novel feature is that the controller communicates with the user by means of temporally discrete signals that represent either commands or functional goal accomplishments and thereby mimics the high-level control in normal humans. The demonstrators will thus minimize the cognitive load of the users while providing necessary feedback for adequate control.nWAY bridges several currently disjointed scientific fields and is therefore critically dependent on the collaboration of engineers, neuroscientists and clinicians.