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Title: Achievements and Challenges towards the Development of Thought Controlled Prostheses
Time：10:00 to 11:30, May 24, 2017
Place：F310, School of Mechanical Engineering
Speaker：Christian Cipriani
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy
Host：Zhang Dingguo

Abstract

In this talk, I will introduce our achievements in BioRobotics Institute of Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy. I will focus on mechatronic features and controllability issues of advanced robotic hands to be used as thought-controlled prostheses. In particular: the design of mechatronic components for artificial hands; the design of control architectures and intuitive control strategies; the use of biological signals for the physiological control of prehension; the development and clinical experimentation of bi-directional non-invasive interfaces; the investigation and comparison of shared-control strategies between user and the prosthesis. Most of my activities are strongly related to the development of hardware with the goal of building reliable, robust and durable stand-alone mechatronic hands.
 
Speaker Biography
 
Christian Cipriani (S’06–M’09–SM’12) received the M.Sc. degree in electronic engineering from the University of Pisa, Italy, in 2004 and the Ph.D. in BioRobotics from the IMT Institute for advanced studies, Lucca, Italy in 2008.
 He is currently an Associate Professor of Bioengineering and Head of the Artificial Hands Area at The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy. He is the Coordinator and PI of the MYKI project (H2020 ERC #679820) and of the DeTOP Project (H2020 ICT #687905) funded by the European Commission and of the PPR3 Project funded by the National Workers’ Compensation (INAIL). Recently he was the Coordinator and PI of the WAY Project (FP7 ICT #288551) funded by the European Commission (2011-2015) and of the MY-HAND Project (no. RBFR10VCLD) funded by the Italian Ministry of Research (2012-2015). He was Visiting Scientist at the University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus, in 2012, and he founded a spin-off company, in 2009. His research interests cover mechatronic, controllability and sensory feedback issues of dexterous robotic hands to be used as thought-controlled prostheses.
Dr. Cipriani is the recipient of several awards including a Starting Grant from the European Research Council in 2015, an early career grant by the Italian Ministry of Research in 2011 (FIRB 2010 program), a Fulbright Research Scholar fellowship in 2011 and the d’Auria Award from the Italian Robotics and Automation Association, in 2009. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society and the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.