NCCR Robotics is a consortium of robotics laboratories across Switzerland, working on robots for improving the quality of life and to strengthen robotics in Switzerland and worldwide. Newsletter
Human Robot Interaction
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Intelligent Robots for Improving the Quality of Life The National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Robotics is a Swiss nationwide organisation funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation… Read more
Open Access to Publications
NCCR Robotics publishes open source software and datasets, please see below for a list and links to where they can be downloaded. Feature Tracking Analysis for Event Cameras Scaramuzza’s… Read more
Talks, Lectures & Weblinks
NCCR Robotics supports and promotes seminars and talks by invited speakers in the partner institutions. addd Diego Pardos talk from Feb 2017 RI Seminar: Davide Scaramuzza : Micro… Read more
MyoSwiss – Academia Industry Training Program in Brazil
NCCR Robotics Spin off MyoSwiss, were selected by Venturelab amongst 10 other Swiss Start-ups to take part in the Academia-Industry Training Program in Brazil early in December 2017. Read more
Swiss Robotics Industry Day 2018 (official video)
PARAPLEGIE 5/5 – Corps à corps avec mon robot
Tastsinn mit einer Prothese
La mecca dei droni
Wie die Handprothese mit dem Körper verschmilzt
Tromper le cerveau et s’approprier sa prothèse grâce à la vue et au toucher
EPFL Un amputé ressent sa prothèse comme si c’était un membre réel
Virtual Reality Program Helps Prosthetic Limbs Feel Connected to Amputees’ Bodies
VR technology helps amputees feel prosthetics as part of body
Virtual reality can help amputees feel life-like sensations again: Scientists combine visual cues and artificial stimulation to convince patients their prosthetic limbs are part of their body
Amputees feel as though their prosthetic limb belongs to their own body





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Robotic Assistance for Human Balance
Trunk postural tracking of assistive soft pneumatic actuator belt
Fiber-reinforced Soft Pneumatic Actuators (SPAs) are found in mobile robots, assistive wearable devices, and rehabilitative technologies. Being intrinsically compliant and readily manufacturable they are attractive for use where safety and customizability are a priority. While different types of SPAs can be found to match the force performance requirements of a variety of applications, outlying system-level issues of robustness, controllability, and repeatability are not traditionally addressed at the actuator level. The SPA pack architecture presented here aims to satisfy these standards of reliability as well as extend the basic performance capabilities of SPAs by borrowing advantages leveraged ubiquitously in biology; namely the structured parallel arrangement of lower power actuators to form the basis of a larger, more powerful actuator module. An SPA pack module consisting of a number of smaller SPAs will be studied using an analytical model and a physical prototype. For a module consisting of four unit actuators an output force over 112 N is measured, while the model indicates the effect of parallel actuator grouping over a geometrically equivalent single SPA scales as an increasing function of the number of individual actuators in the group. A 23% increase in force production over a volumetrically equivalent single SPA is predicted and validated, while further gains appear possible up to 50%, reasonably bounded by practical limitations from material properties and manufacturability. These findings affirm the advantage of utilizing a fascicle structure for high-performance soft robotic applications over existing monolithic SPA designs. An active wearable belt will be presented to demonstrate the capability of SPA pack modules to affect human trunk posture while standing, while further work may enable active modulation of trunk angle during walking to provide corrective assistance or gait modifying perturbations.
Ultra-stretchable strain sensors using carbon black-filled elastomer composites and comparison of capacitive versus resistive sensors
Reference
- Detailed record: https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/232604?ln=en
- EPFL-ARTICLE-232604