2015 International Workshop on Robotics and Interactive Technologies For Neuroscience and Rehabilitation

2015年神经科学与康复机器人与交互技术国际研讨会

• 批准号: 1542307
• 负责人: Ferdinando Mussa-Ivaldi
• 金额: $ 4.45万
• 依托单位: Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-05-15 至 2017-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1542307&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: 2015; International; Workshop; Robotics; Interactive

1542301Mussa-Ivaldi, Ferdinando A.Since its inception, Robotics has had a profound impact on our understanding of how the brain constructs movements, processes sensory information and adapts to variable environments. In more recent times it has entered the clinical domain of sensory-motor rehabilitation for survivors of stroke and other disabling neurological conditions. The proposed workshop is intended to organize a vigorous debate between experts in robotics, in rehabilitation research and in the basic neuroscience of the sensory-motor system with the dual purpose of enhancing the integration of these disciplines and developing new international collaborations between centers of excellence for Neurotechnologies and Rehabilitation in the United States and Italy. Therefore, the general goal of the workshop will be to promote the progress of science in the critical area where robotics and neuroscience are going to meet and interact, with a specific emphasis on state of the art advances in the national health, in relation with the increasing percentage of senior citizens in all industrialized countries of the world. Moreover, the project will advance the rehabilitation field strengthening the leadership of US research.The debate on the hot issues of Advanced Robotics and Robotic Neurorehabilitation will be organized by scientists from two institutions, namely the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) - the leading US hospital for rehabilitation research - and the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) - the leading Italian research center for a broad spectrum of advanced technologies, including neurorehabilitation, robotics and nanotechnology. The interaction between these two research centers is intended to be a seed for developing a broader collaborative network of US and Italian researchers in neurorehabilitation science and technology. The significance of this initiative stems from its potential to enhance and maintain the close contiguity of insights from basic neuroscience with the ingenuity of rapid technological developments in the clinical domain. It is expected that this tight interaction will serve to promote the recovery of lost abilities and independence in the disabled population, while expanding the intellectual and educational domains for current and future generations of researchers in neural engineering.The three-days workshop will include four discussion sessions, on the following themes:1. Sensory-motor control and haptic interactions.2. Learning and motor cognition.3. Human/machine interactions.4. Neuroprosthetics and rehabilitationEach theme will be introduced by brief presentations from IIT and RIC experts, followed by more detailed demonstrations and descriptions of key scientific and technological issues. A group of panelists will guide the discussion, inclusive of all participants, during and at the end of the meeting, by pointing at specific unresolved problems and future challenges. Participation of junior scientists will be particularly encouraged both during the meeting and through the preparation of articles that will be collected in the submission for a special issue of Frontiers Research Topics. On the third day, principal investigators from both institutions will visit the IIT laboratories. There, a discussion of the perspective collaborations that have emerged in the previous two days will conclude the workshop.

1542301Mussa-Ivaldi，Ferdinando A.自诞生以来，机器人技术对我们对大脑如何构建运动、处理感官信息和适应可变环境的理解产生了深远的影响。最近，它已进入中风和其他致残性神经系统疾病幸存者感觉运动康复的临床领域。拟议的研讨会旨在组织机器人学、康复研究和感觉运动系统基础神经科学领域的专家之间的激烈辩论，其双重目的是加强这些学科的整合并在卓越中心之间发展新的国际合作美国和意大利的神经技术和康复。因此，研讨会的总体目标将是促进机器人学和神经科学将要相遇和相互作用的关键领域的科学进步，特别强调与国民健康相关的最新进展。世界所有工业化国家中老年人的比例不断增加。此外，该项目还将推动康复领域的发展，加强美国研究的领导地位。关于先进机器人技术和机器人神经康复的热点问题的辩论将由来自两个机构的科学家组织，即美国领先的芝加哥康复研究所（RIC）康复研究医院 - 以及意大利理工学院 (IIT) - 意大利领先的广泛先进技术研究中心，包括神经康复、机器人技术和纳米技术。这两个研究中心之间的互动旨在为美国和意大利神经康复科学技术研究人员建立更广泛的合作网络奠定基础。这一举措的重要性源于其有潜力增强和保持基础神经科学见解与临床领域快速技术发展的独创性的紧密联系。预计这种紧密的互动将有助于促进残疾人失去的能力和独立性的恢复，同时扩大当前和未来几代神经工程研究人员的智力和教育领域。为期三天的研讨会将包括四场讨论会议的主题如下： 1．感觉运动控制和触觉交互。2．学习和运动认知。3．人机交互.4.神经假肢和康复每个主题都将通过 IIT 和 RIC 专家的简短介绍进行介绍，随后对关键科学和技术问题进行更详细的演示和描述。小组成员将在会议期间和会议结束时指导包括所有参与者在内的讨论，指出具体的未解决问题和未来的挑战。在会议期间以及通过准备文章的方式将特别鼓励初级科学家的参与，这些文章将收集在前沿研究主题特刊的提交中。第三天，两个机构的主要研究人员将参观IIT实验室。研讨会将讨论前两天出现的前景合作。