Description du projet
L’intelligence artificielle pour aider les patients équipés de prothèses
Des millions de personnes dans le monde voient leurs capacités motrices détériorées suite à des AVC, à une chirurgie des tumeurs cérébrales ou à des accidents. Dans la plupart des cas, les prothèses et appareils fonctionnels constituent leurs seules options. Le projet MAIA, financé par l’UE, va plus loin en concevant une intelligence artificielle (IA) centrée sur l’homme pour contrôler les prothèses et les dispositifs d’assistance installés sur les bras robotisés, les fauteuils roulants et les exosquelettes. La technologie MAIA sera interactive, encourageant la confrontation entre la décision de l’IA, l’intention de l’utilisateur et les besoins réels. Le projet permettra d’identifier une communication naturelle et rapide ainsi que de nouvelles formes de combinaisons de données neuronales et comportementales, allant au-delà des méthodes actuelles de traitement des données. Ces principes constitueront la colonne vertébrale autour de laquelle l’écosystème MAIA sera développé, jetant les bases d’une IA biomédicale centrée sur l’homme.
Objectif
What if in a near future Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes human-centric, focusing on human needs and build trustworthiness by mutual understanding? Today, millions of people worldwide suffer from deteriorated motor abilities, due to stroke, brain tumor surgery or accident. This represents a serious society challenge with missing adequate technological response. Patients need assistive devices that are trustworthy, multifunctional, adaptive and interactive, i.e. intelligent, unlike current neuroprosthetics that replace single motor impairments.
MAIA proposes a paradigm shift where human-centric AI will control prosthetic and assistive devices. We will investigate and resolve critical steps towards the rapid development of such human-centric control: a radically novel intention decoder, a novel concept for trustworthy human-AI interactions, and a new type of database for acquired information from multiple sources.
MAIA AI technology will decode human intentions and communicate the decoded targets to assistive devices and to the users, to ensure compliance and develop trust through natural interaction and mutual learning. The technological outcome will be a multifunctional human-centric AI controller at TRL4 with embedded trustworthy characteristics, suitable to be integrated in robotic arms, wheelchair and exoskeletons.
To reach this, MAIA will investigate the principles underlying natural, fast and lean communication and new forms of combinations of neural and behavioural data beyond current data processing. MAIA’s approach will be guided by real needs of end users (patients and caregivers) through their direct involvement in the research program, and by all current knowledge from neuro-, cognitive, and social science research.
The application domains of MAIA’s new paradigm span from healthcare to industry, and space exploration. We will also establish a European innovation ecosystem beyond the research labs that will stimulate highly innovative enterprises.
Champ scientifique
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligence
- natural sciencesphysical sciencesastronomyspace exploration
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdatabases
- medical and health sciencesmedical biotechnologyimplants
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata sciencedata processing
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinateur
40126 Bologna
Italie