Descrizione del progetto
Sviluppo del concetto di potenziamento dei movimenti
Il progetto NIMA, finanziato dall’UE, sta facendo avanzare un nuovo concetto per utilizzare la ridondanza del sistema motorio a diversi livelli, ai fini del controllo di ulteriori arti artificiali, dispositivi o computer, indipendentemente dai movimenti degli arti naturali. Il team del progetto che lavorerà per raggiungere questo obiettivo è composto da esperti in neuroscienza, neurotecnologia, interfaccia uomo-macchina, robotica ed etica. Gli obiettivi principali comprendono la creazione di interfacce non invasive con riscontro sensoriale multimodale per il controllo di arti o oggetti multipli, il chiarimento dei meccanismi cognitivi e neurali che controllano il potenziamento dei movimenti, la preparazione delle basi per la valorizzazione e la valutazione degli aspetti etici e di sicurezza in materia di potenziamento dei movimenti.
Obiettivo
An artificial third arm that assists my actions with little cognitive effort and that can seamlessly be controlled concurrently and independently to my natural arms is a popular phantasm in science fiction. If to come true, however, this vision would revolutionise human life by enabling people to accomplish tasks that are sheer impossible with their natural limbs alone. Surgeons could become able to control additional surgical devices, a computer mouse commanded simultaneously to my fingers would enable me to operate a maps application on my phone while dragging my luggage, etc. The NIMA project follows a concrete and novel concept to make this vision a reality, by exploiting the redundancy of the motor system on different levels for controlling additional degrees-of-freedom of supernumerary limbs, devices or computers independently from movements of the natural limbs. We have formed a team of leading experts in neuroscience, neurotechnology, human-machine interfaces, robotics, and ethics, to accomplish the following objectives: 1) Pushing the borders of technology by creating non-invasive interfaces with multimodal sensory feedback that will allow effortless control of multiple limbs or objects, as well as a wearable supernumerary robotic limb. 2) Understanding the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying movement augmentation, how it can be functionally embodied and how this can be facilitated by multimodal feedback, by combining neuromodulation, computational modelling and behavioural experiments. 3) Applying movement augmentation to extend human capacities and preparing the ground for exploitation, using three relevant testbeds: i) manipulation with a wearable supernumerary robotic arm and the two hands, ii) assistance in surgical manipulation to extend surgeon capabilities and autonomy, iii) 3-hands computer interface. 4) Evaluating the ethical and safety aspects of movement augmentation.
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H2020-FETOPEN-2018-2019-2020-01
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinatore
79098 Freiburg
Germania