Neuro-Robotics From Brain Machine Interfaces to Rehabilitation Robotics [Paperback]

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.

Part I: Neuro-robotics: the new frontier

Chapter 1
?A Learning Scheme for EMG Based Interfaces: On Task Specificity in Motion Decoding Domain
Minas V. Liarokapis, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos and Panagiotis Artemiadis

Chapter 2
State of the art and perspectives of ultrasound imaging as a human-machine interface
Claudio Castellini

Chapter 3
Considering limb impedance in the design and control of prosthetic devices
Eric Perreault, Levi Hargrove, Daniel Ludvig, Hyunglae and Jon Sensinger

Chapter 4
Multi-axis Capability for Powered Ankle-foot Prostheses
Evandro M. Ficanha, Mohammad Rastgaar and Kenton R. Kaufman

Chapter 5
Mimicking human-like leg function in prosthetic limbs
Martin Grimmer and Andr? Seyfarth

Chapter 6
Multi-directional dynamic mechanical impedancel³+