MUNDUS project: MUltimodal Neuroprosthesis for daily Upper limb Support. Alessandra Pedrocchi, Simona Ferrante, Emilia Ambrosini, Marta Gandolla, Claudia Casellato, Thomas Schauer, Christian Klauer, Javier Pascual, Carmen Vidaurre, Margit Gfoehler, Werner Reichenfelser, Jakob Karner, Silvestro Micera, Andrea Crema, Franco Molteni, Mauro Rossini, Giovanna Palumbo, Eleonora Guanziroli, Andreas Jedlitschka, Marco Hack, Maria Bulgheroni, Enrico d¿Amico, Peter Schenk, Sven Zwicker, Alexander Duschau-Wicke, Justinas Miseikis, Lina Graber and Giancarlo Ferrigno; Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2013, doi:10.1186/1743-0003-10-66, Published: 3 July 2013
Background
MUNDUS is an assistive framework for recovering direct interaction capability of severely motor impaired people based on arm reaching and hand functions. It aims at achieving personalization, modularity and maximization of the user's direct involvement in assistive systems. To this, MUNDUS exploits any residual control of the end-user and can be adapted to the level of severity or to the progression of the disease allowing the user to voluntarily interact with the environment. MUNDUS target pathologies are high-level spinal cord injury (SCI) and neurodegenerative and genetic neuromuscular diseases, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Friedreich ataxia, and multiple sclerosis (MS). The system can be alternatively driven by residual voluntary muscular activation, head/eye motion, and brain signals. MUNDUS modularly combines an antigravity lightweight and non-cumbersome exoskeleton, closed-loop controlled Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation for arm and hand motion, and potentially a motorized hand orthosis, for grasping interactive objects.
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