Description du projet
Un regard plus attentif sur la connectivité cerveau‑machine‑corps
Les personnes amputées d’un membre ou dépourvues de fonctions biologiques, comme la sensibilité, sont confrontées à de nombreuses difficultés. De nos jours, les progrès technologiques réalisés au carrefour entre les neurosciences et l’ingénierie ouvrent de nouveaux horizons aux neuroprothèses. Mais il reste encore des défis à relever, comme la consommation d’énergie, les batteries et la bande passante pour la transmission des signaux et des données. Le projet B-CRATOS, financé par l’UE, combinera les neurosciences, la bionique, l’intelligence artificielle, la détection et les communications sans fil innovantes dans une interface sans fil de connexion cérébrale, afin de construire une plateforme de communication sans fil à haut débit, sans batterie, permettant la connectivité entre le cerveau, la machine et le corps. Elle ouvrira la voie à des implants cérébraux ASIC capables de lire et d’écrire, ainsi qu’à des capteurs et des prothèses de type humain.
Objectif
Wireless Brain-Connect inteRfAce TO machineS: B-CRATOS:Merging novel wireless communication, neuroscience, bionics, Artificial Intelligence and sensing to create for the first time a battery-free high-speed wireless in-body communication platform for Brain-Machine-Body connectivity. Groundbreaking technological components - wireless two-way microwave fat intra-body and RF backscatter communication, battery-free powering technology, bio-inspired sensing, dexterous biomechatronic extremity- will be codesigned and a proof-of-concept, revolutionary untethered brain-machine interface will be created. This technology will have profound impact in the fields of neuroprosthetics (restoration of missing biological functions such as vision, audition, movement, sensation, movement, cognition through the bypassing damaged circuits), Brain-Computer Interfaces (brain plasticity through machine learning, gaming, virtual reality), and electroceuticals (modulation of organ function through neural circuits instead of pharmaceuticals), gaming (immersion), and Virtual Reality. B-CRATOS will overcome major challenges relating to power consumption, batteries, and data transmission bandwidth through breakthrough battery-free bidirectional wireless communication technology. The revolutionary signal bridge technology will impact healthcare, quality-of-life, and human learning and cognition. Key Enabling Technologies for this closed-loop functionality include ultra-low-power ASIC brain implants with read/write capability, battery-free in-body high-speed wireless communications systems, human-like artificial sensors and limbs.
Champ scientifique
- medical and health sciencesbasic medicinepharmacology and pharmacypharmaceutical drugs
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware applicationsvirtual reality
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationsradio technology
- medical and health sciencesmedical biotechnologyimplants
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencemachine learning
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinateur
751 05 Uppsala
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