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Goal:
This project aims to consolidate the
co-operations with foreign partners, in order to integrate
into international research programs and networks, and to
improve the relations with national and international
medical centers for commonly testing the neuroprosthesis
control strategies. The neuroprosthesis-type embedded
systems are addressing to rehabilitation necessities of
impaired people due to a central nervous system lesion. As a
requirement of the Romanian ANCS Agency, the research
developed by the young researcher is related to the PNII
D11-068/2007 "NEUROPROSTHESIS-TYPE EMBEDDED SYSTEMS FOR
NEUROREHABILITATION" project (http://sinpha.ee.tuiasi.ro).
The main
beneficiaries of these new designed neuroprostheses are
the people with impaired motor functions due to a damage to the central nervous system
(stroke, multiple sclerosis, SCI, Parkinson, etc.). These
new devices will improve their mobility and rehabilitation
processes, allowing the patients to lead more productive,
socially integrated and independent lives, and reducing the
burden that they currently represent for health care and
support services. The proposed research has a second role
improving the competitiveness and creativity of the young
researchers, leading to an increased visibility of our
research team at the European level and facilitating our
integration within European technological platforms.
FES-based standing-up exercises at
the Clinical Rehabilitation Hospital of Iasi
Hand rehabilitation and
evaluation exercice by means of GFTS (Grip Force
Tracking System) device, made by the Faculty of Electrical
Engineering of Ljubljana, Slovenia and provided to their
Romanian partners
The
co-operations with foreign partners and the results
dissemination at different workshops and conferences will
accelerate the research
processes and the development of new embedded systems and
control strategies.
Expanding the generic knowledge base
required for the development of neuprosthesis, brings on
scientific and technological challenges in the following
research areas: sensing (optimal sensorial system, computer
supported methods need to be developed to design minimal
configurations of sensors), biomechanics (human body complex
model to be used in simulation), advanced control methods
(Patient-driven, adaptive and robust methods), methods to
quantify the results of the rehabilitative process, clinical
tests procedures.
General objective:
Commonly testing the neuroprosthesis-type
embedded systems and evaluation techniques for impaired
people due to a central nervous system lesion.
NEUROTEH
specific objectives:
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development of new control
methods which can be implemented in neuroprosthesis-type
embedded systems,
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relations improvement with
medical centers for commonly testing the developed
systems and control strategies,
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co-operations with foreign
partners in order to integrate into international
research programs and networks,
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results dissemination at
national and international level.
Partners:
Period: 2008 - 2009
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