SOCIAL ROBOTICS

CASTOR: CompliAnt SofT Robotics (IAPP1\100126 / 2018-2020)

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Children with autism have difficulties in social skills, attention, emotions recognition, and sometimes repetitive or aggressive behaviors. In Colombia, it is estimated that 1 in 110 children have autism. Socially Assistive Robotics (SAR) have been used in this field to assist the diagnosis, improve eye contact and joint attention, increase self-initiated interactions, and engage in simple activities with the aim of encouraging basic communication, imitation, and emotion recognition. The aim of this project is to develop CompliAnt SofT Robotic technologies to build the next generation of SAR in autism therapies, based on soft and robust social robots that combine fiber optics sensors, bio-inspired actuation and social robotics design.

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Human-Robot Interaction Strategies for Rehabilitation based on Socially Assistive Robotics (IAPP\1516\137 / 2016-2018)

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Socially Assistive Robotics (SAR) is a growing research area at the intersection of robotics, health science, psychology, social and cognitive science. SAR can offer cost-effective methods for aiding recovery by maximizing the patient motivation both during and after structured rehabilitation. This project intends to represent a breakthrough in the research of rehabilitation robotics in close cooperation with the patient; the project will focus its activities on new socially assistive robotics systems for rehabilitation therapy of Strokes, Spinal Cord Iinjury and Cerebral Palsy.

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Evaluation of a social robot intervention impact on the cardiovascular responses of patients from the Cardiac Rehabilitation program of the Fundación Cardio-Infantil Instituto de Cardiología (07-2017 / 2017-2018)

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Cardiac rehabilitation relies on the necessity to evaluate, control and supervise a patient's status and progress. This work has two objectives: on the one hand, provide a tool for clinicians to assess the patient's status during CR and on the other hand, explores the possibility to integrate a robotic agent into cardiac therapy.

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REHABILITATION ROBOTICS

Ibero-American Research Network (Cyted 216RT0504 / 2016-2019): Rehabilitation and assistance of patients with neurological impairments by means of affordable robotic exoskeletons

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The general objective of this thematic network is to establish a wide working forum to enable and facilitate the cooperation and exchange of knowledge between different clinical centers, research groups and Ibero-American companies working in the field of rehabilitation and assistance of patients with Neurological damage, and share the interest of developing and applying new technologies based on robotic exoskeletons (REs) to improve the rehabilitation and assistance of this group.

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Adaptive robotic platform for gait rehabilitation and assistance based on the integration of an active exoskeleton and a robotic walker "EksoWalker" (2017-2019)

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Several robotic devices have been proposed as alternatives to be used in therapeutic interventions for locomotor trainings. The main objective of the EksoWalker project is to develop and validate a robotic platform to support patient rehabilitation therapies, controlled by an interface that serves as a communication channel between patients and rehabilitation therapies, along with a second interface to allow for safe interaction of the Patient-Eksowalker system With the environment during therapy.

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Human-Environment Interaction Strategies for Walker-Assisted Gait (2016-2018)

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New technologies have emerged to improve the living conditions of people with motor disabilities. In the field of robotic gait technologies, there are several ongoing projects related to robotic versions of walkers and other assistive devices. In this Project, it is proposed the development of a robotic walker for mobility assistance oriented to human-environment interaction.

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Evaluation of biomechanical parameters in gait assisted with a robotic walker (2017)

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Knowledge about how the use of the walker affects gait pattern is limited and this information may be clinically relevant in the decision making process to define the walker and robotic assistance strategy could be benefits in different pathologies. The main objective of the present project is to carry out a comparative study of biomechanical parameters relevant to gait evaluation in subjects without gait pathologies in three specific cases of gait assistance, in order to determine curves and parameters of normality that serve as parameters to evaluate in later studies patients with pathologies.

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Design and development of a navigation interface for mobile assistance devices (2017)

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New robotic walkers must address the new problem of social acceptability, along with an intuitive human-robot interaction that considers the environment, which guarantees safety and assistance in locomotion within dynamic environments. The main objective of this project is to improve the interaction of the mobile devices of assistance and rehabilitation, in order to make them socially acceptable and present a much more intuitive interaction with their surroundings.

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Evaluation of active biomechanical parameters with activated exoskeleton (2017)

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Active exoskeletons can be used to supplement, replace, or enhance human performance with respect to a limb, providing a solution to limitations that can not be treated surgically. In this context it is proposed the biomechanical evaluation of the exoskeleton that is currently under development in the Colombian School of Engineering, so that it is possible to compare the parameters obtained with running without the use of the device.

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CPWalker: Robotic Platform for Gait Rehabilitation and Training in Patients with Cerebral Palsy (Finished)

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The main objective of CPWalker is to develop and validate a robotic platform to support novel therapies for cerebral palsy (CP) rehabilitation. This platform will be controlled by a multimodal interface to establish the interaction of CP infants with robot-based therapies. The objective of these therapies is to improve the physical skills of infants with CP and similar disorders.

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