Neuro-Robotics: From Brain Machine Interfaces to Rehabilitation Robotics

✍ Scribed by Panagiotis Artemiadis (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 458
• Series: Trends in Augmentation of Human Performance 2
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Neuro-robotics is one of the most multidisciplinary fields of the last decades, fusing information and knowledge from neuroscience, engineering and computer science. This book focuses on the results from the strategic alliance between Neuroscience and Robotics that help the scientific community to better understand the brain as well as design robotic devices and algorithms for interfacing humans and robots. The first part of the book introduces the idea of neuro-robotics, by presenting state-of-the-art bio-inspired devices. The second part of the book focuses on human-machine interfaces for performance augmentation, which can seen as augmentation of abilities of healthy subjects or assistance in case of the mobility impaired. The third part of the book focuses on the inverse problem, i.e. how we can use robotic devices that physically interact with the human body, in order (a) to understand human motor control and (b) to provide therapy to neurologically impaired people or people with disabilities.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
A Learning Scheme for EMG Based Interfaces: On Task Specificity in Motion Decoding Domain....Pages 3-36
State of the Art and Perspectives of Ultrasound Imaging as a Human-Machine Interface....Pages 37-58
Considering Limb Impedance in the Design and Control of Prosthetic Devices....Pages 59-83
Multi-axis Capability for Powered Ankle-Foot Prostheses....Pages 85-103
Mimicking Human-Like Leg Function in Prosthetic Limbs....Pages 105-155
Multi-directional Dynamic Mechanical Impedance of the Human Ankle; A Key to Anthropomorphism in Lower Extremity Assistive Robots....Pages 157-178
Front Matter....Pages 179-179
Development of the Quantified Human....Pages 181-205
Effective Neural Representations for Brain-Mediated Human-Robot Interactions....Pages 207-237
Assisted Computer Interaction for Users with Weak Upper Limb Motion....Pages 239-261
Front Matter....Pages 263-263
Robotic Systems for Gait Rehabilitation....Pages 265-283
Enhancing Recovery of Sensorimotor Functions: The Role of Robot Generated Haptic Feedback in the Re-learning Process....Pages 285-316
Robotic Assistance for Cerebellar Reaching....Pages 317-343
A Human Augmentation Approach to Gait Restoration....Pages 345-377
Home-Based Rehabilitation: Enabling Frequent and Effective Training....Pages 379-403
Unilateral and Bilateral Rehabilitation of the Upper Limb Following Stroke via an Exoskeleton....Pages 405-446
Back Matter....Pages 447-448

✦ Subjects

Biomedicine general; Control, Robotics, Mechatronics; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Rehabilitation Medicine