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SPEXOR SIGNED

Spinal Exoskeletal Robot for Low Back Pain Prevention and Vocational Reintegration

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EC-Contrib. €

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Project "SPEXOR" data sheet

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Coordinator	INSTITUT JOZEF STEFAN Organization address address: Jamova 39 city: LJUBLJANA postcode: 1000 website: www.ijs.si contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.
Coordinator Country	Slovenia [SI]
Project website	http://www.spexor.eu
Total cost	3˙989˙025 €
EC max contribution	3˙989˙025 € (100%)
Programme	1. H2020-EU.2.1.1. (INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT))
Code Call	H2020-ICT-2015
Funding Scheme	RIA
Starting year	2016
Duration (year-month-day)	from 2016-01-01 to 2019-12-31

Partnership

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#	participants	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	INSTITUT JOZEF STEFAN INSTITUT JOZEF STEFAN Organization address address: Jamova 39 city: LJUBLJANA postcode: 1000 website: www.ijs.si contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	SI (LJUBLJANA)	coordinator	570˙250.00
2	RUPRECHT-KARLS-UNIVERSITAET HEIDELBERG RUPRECHT-KARLS-UNIVERSITAET HEIDELBERG Organization address address: SEMINARSTRASSE 2 city: HEIDELBERG postcode: 69117 website: www.uni-heidelberg.de contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	DE (HEIDELBERG)	participant	677˙625.00
3	STICHTING VU STICHTING VU Organization address address: DE BOELELAAN 1105 city: AMSTERDAM postcode: 1081 HV website: www.vu.nl contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	NL (AMSTERDAM)	participant	667˙375.00
4	VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL Organization address address: PLEINLAAN 2 city: BRUSSEL postcode: 1050 website: www.vub.ac.be contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	BE (BRUSSEL)	participant	650˙525.00
5	OTTOBOCK SE & CO. KGAA OTTOBOCK SE & CO. KGAA Organization address address: MAX-NADER-STRASSE 15 city: DUDERSTADT postcode: 37115 website: http://www.ottobock.de contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	DE (DUDERSTADT)	participant	521˙250.00
6	OTTO BOCK HEALTHCARE PRODUCTS GMBH OTTO BOCK HEALTHCARE PRODUCTS GMBH Organization address address: BREHMSTRASSE 16 city: WIEN postcode: 1110 website: www.ottobock.at contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	AT (WIEN)	participant	311˙250.00
7	S2P DOO S2P DOO Organization address address: TEHNOLOSKI PARK 19 city: LJUBLJANA postcode: 1000 website: n.a. contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	SI (LJUBLJANA)	participant	301˙375.00
8	STICHTING HELIOMARE STICHTING HELIOMARE Organization address address: RELWEG 51 city: WIJK AAN ZEE postcode: 1949 EC website: n.a. contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	NL (WIJK AAN ZEE)	participant	289˙375.00

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Project objective

Low-back pain is the leading cause of worker absenteeism after the common cold, accounting for 15% of sick leaves and hundreds of millions of lost work days annually [Walking 2.0, Nature, 2015].

Most of today's robotic assistive devices are in forms of exoskeletons that augment the motion of legs and arms and neglect the role of spinal column in transferring load from the upper body and arms to the legs. In SPEXOR we will fill this gap and design a novel and revolutionary spinal exoskeleton to prevent low-back pain in able bodied workers and to support workers with low-back pain in vocational rehabilitation.

The concept to realize the objectives of SPEXOR is driven by several interdisciplinary ideas that push current understanding of low-back pain intervention through several innovative research and technological stages. First, robot-centred requirements for low-back pain prevention are determined and a musculoskeletal stress monitoring system is developed to unobtrusively measure the associated key variables. Then, optimal design parameters and sensorimotor strategies are provided with respect to the robot-centred requirements and their associated key variables. Based on these aspects, a spinal exoskeleton mechanism and its actuation is developed and adaptive control architecture is employed. Such research and development cycle is enclosed by multi-phase end-user evaluation, usability and satisfaction studies.

The project builds upon the partner's extensive experience with work ergonomics, modelling and optimization of human movement, design, control and evaluation of exoskeletons. Several beyond-the-state-of-art scientific approaches and technologies will be employed through a colourful mixture of research, industrial, SME and end-user partners of the consortium.

Ultimately, the results of SPEXOR will have a significant impact well beyond the current scientific understanding and technological capabilities of assistive robots used in daily life and health care.

Deliverables

List of deliverables.
Ethical approval for WP1	Documents, reports	2019-05-30 14:00:22
Ethics manual	Documents, reports	2019-05-30 13:59:56
Formulation of high-level exoskeleton control	Documents, reports	2019-05-30 14:00:42
Project website and newsletter	Websites, patent fillings, videos etc.	2019-05-30 14:00:41
Ethical approval for WP6	Documents, reports	2019-05-30 14:00:14
Dissemination plan	Documents, reports	2019-05-30 14:00:38

Take a look to the deliverables list in detail: detailed list of SPEXOR deliverables.

Publications

List of publications.
year	authors and title	journal	last update
2017	Goljat, Rok; BabiÄ, Jan; PetriÄ, Tadej; Peternel, Luka; Morimoto, Jun Power-augmentation control approach for arm exoskeleton based on human muscular manipulability : a tool to study, analyse and measure physical ability of robots published pages: , ISSN: , DOI:	ISBN: 978-1-5090-4632-4 8	2019-06-18
2017	Zrinka Potocanac, Rok Goljat, Jan Babic A robotic system for delivering novel real-time, movement dependent perturbations published pages: 386-389, ISSN: 0966-6362, DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2017.08.038	Gait & Posture 58	2019-06-18
2017	Paul Manns, Manish Sreenivasa, Matthew Millard, Katja Mombaur Motion Optimization and Parameter Identification for a Human and Lower Back Exoskeleton Model published pages: 1564-1570, ISSN: 2377-3766, DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2017.2676355	IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2/3	2019-06-18
2016	Luka Peternel, Tomoyuki Noda, Tadej PetriÄ, AleÅ¡ Ude, Jun Morimoto, Jan BabiÄ Adaptive Control of Exoskeleton Robots for Periodic Assistive Behaviours Based on EMG Feedback Minimisation published pages: e0148942, ISSN: 1932-6203, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0148942	PLOS ONE 11/2	2019-06-18
2017	Millard, Matthew; Sreenivasa, Manish; Mombaur, Katja Predicting the Motions and Forces of Wearable Robotic Systems Using Optimal Control published pages: , ISSN: 2296-9144, DOI: 10.11588/heidok.00023563	Frontiers in Robotics and AI, Vol 4 (2017) 1	2019-06-18
2018	Koopman, Axel S.; Kingma, Idsart; Faber, Gert S.; Bornmann, Jonas; van DieÃ«n, Jaap H. Estimating the L5S1 flexion/extension moment in symmetrical lifting using a simplified ambulatory measurement system published pages: , ISSN: 0021-9290, DOI:	Journal of Biomechanics, 70 1	2019-06-18
2018	Sreenivasa, Manish; Harant, Monika ModelFactory: A Matlab/Octave based toolbox to create human body models published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1137656	1	2019-06-18
2016	Jan BabiÄ, Erhan Oztop, Mitsuo Kawato Human motor adaptation in whole body motion published pages: , ISSN: 2045-2322, DOI: 10.1038/srep32868	Scientific Reports 6/1	2019-06-18
2018	Faber, G. S.; Koopman, A. S.; Kingma, I.; Chang, C. C.; Dennerlein, J. T.; van DieÃ«n, J. H. Continuous ambulatory hand force monitoring during manual materials handling using instrumented force shoes and an inertial motion capture suit published pages: , ISSN: 0021-9290, DOI:	ISSN=0021-9290;TITLE=Journal of Biomechanics 1	2019-06-18

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