WANDER
Wander
| Coordinatore | TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT
Organization address
address: Stevinweg 1 contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | Netherlands [NL] |
| Totale costo | 100˙000 € |
| EC contributo | 100˙000 € |
| Programma | FP7-PEOPLE
Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) |
| Code Call | FP7-PEOPLE-2013-CIG |
| Funding Scheme | MC-CIG |
| Anno di inizio | 2013 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2013-09-01 - 2017-08-31 |
Partecipanti
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| 1 |
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT
Organization address
address: Stevinweg 1 contact info |
NL (DELFT) | coordinator | 100˙000.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'Falls are an urgent problem in our society, being one of the most frequent causes of hospitalization and death among the elderly. More than 1 out of 3 adults over the age of 70 fall within one year. A key factor is impaired balance. Robotic orthoses already offer astonishing capabilities to people with locomotor impairments. However, still many open questions need to be solved before they will let users regain (or even outperform) the capabilities of the healthy sensorimotor system, in particular regarding balance. WaNDER addresses three major bottlenecks on this way: 1. In physiological balance control, the upper body, which accounts for more than two thirds of the body mass, plays an important role. In modeling and assistive technology for locomotion, however, these mechanisms have widely been neglected, and a leg-focused view prevails. In WaNDER, we will explicitly investigate the role of the upper body for balance and locomotion, to develop novel robotic interventions. 2. Humans almost instantaneously adapt to a changed environment, for example when interacting with robotic devices. This is particularly relevant in training applications, where human learning is the fundamental goal. In WaNDER, we will investigate how robotic devices should optimally adapt to and co-adapt with the user, in a process of mutual adaptation, to optimize training outcome in neurorehabilitation. 3. Most wearable gait-assisting devices today target other purposes besides balance control, making them less suitable for patients who have deficits only in this task. Going beyond the possibilities of exoskeletal designs, we will investigate frontier hardware concepts to complement balance control in daily life. The goal hereby is to provide assistance and balance training as part of a patient’s daily life, blurring the border between “assistive” and “therapeutic” technology.'