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Optimizing muscle control for neural prosthetics| old_uid | 14400 |
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| title | Optimizing muscle control for neural prosthetics |
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| start_date | 2014/10/01 |
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| schedule | 14h |
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| online | no |
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| summary | The Revolutionizing Prosthetics program coordinated by the Defense Advances
Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has dramatically boosted the development of actuated upper-limb prostheses, and recent surgical technique that transfers
residual nerves to alternative muscle sites has increased the number of muscle
signals available to control these devices. What is critically needed now is to
develop efficient control strategies linking the two. The goal of my research
is to enable this by revealing the key mechanisms by which our hierarchical
sensorimotor system normally coordinates muscles. In particular, the aim is to
establish how the nervous system learns new patterns of muscle activity, how
the original sensorimotor mapping is critical and can be restored, and how
amputee could benefit from control schemes integrating subsidiary muscles from
the trunk and other limbs. |
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| responsibles | Fenouil |
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