European projects
SCRIPT
Supervised Care and Rehabilitation Involving Personal Tele-robotics
The SCRIPT project, Supervised Care & Rehabilitation Involving Personal Tele-robotics, is partially funded by the European Commission under the Seventh (FP7 - 2007-2013) Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development. The project started on 1st of Nov 2011 and will run for a period of 36 months.
Recent development in robot-mediated rehabilitation has shown the potential of robotic devices for delivering repetitive training thus allowing for a large number of repetitions to be delivered during acute and chronic phases of stroke rehabilitation. While there is growing evidence that such technologies are beneficial to patient’s recovery of functional and motor outcome, our goals are:
2013 to 2014: I work at the Adaptive Systems Research Group (University of Hertfordshire) under the supervision of Dr Farshid Amirabdollahian.
Supervised Care and Rehabilitation Involving Personal Tele-robotics
The SCRIPT project, Supervised Care & Rehabilitation Involving Personal Tele-robotics, is partially funded by the European Commission under the Seventh (FP7 - 2007-2013) Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development. The project started on 1st of Nov 2011 and will run for a period of 36 months.
Recent development in robot-mediated rehabilitation has shown the potential of robotic devices for delivering repetitive training thus allowing for a large number of repetitions to be delivered during acute and chronic phases of stroke rehabilitation. While there is growing evidence that such technologies are beneficial to patient’s recovery of functional and motor outcome, our goals are:
- To use such technologies at patient’s home, enabling better management of chronic stroke as it allows to administer larger repetitions and frequent exercise which can in turn increase the recovery gains. Moreover, it allows objective database of performance for tailoring treatment and follow-up.
- To focus on hand and wrist exercise that present the least researched area with the most functional relevance, and potential for contribution to personal independence.
- To look at differences between passive and active actuated devices. Inherent safe nature of these devices make them an ideal choice for home use.
- To provide an educational, motivational and engaging interaction, which makes a therapy session more enjoyable while having the capabilities to provide feedback to patients and health professional. The provided feedback will be based on heterogeneous data collected during interaction as well as comparisons with models such as minimum jerk model as a performance indicator.
- To focus on remote management and support of the patient. It creates a communication platform that will support the remote management allowing to adjust the therapy program remotely thus reducing hospital or home visits frequency. This is facilitated by incorporating the clinical workflows into user interfaces used by patients and clinicians while maintaining a customisable and easy to operate front-end for users. The two-fold objective here enables us to look at aspects of acceptability and compliance as well as data security and confidentiality.
- To infer from summative evaluation in this project, impact on health and recovery and its potential cost implications.
2013 to 2014: I work at the Adaptive Systems Research Group (University of Hertfordshire) under the supervision of Dr Farshid Amirabdollahian.
GRASP
Emergence of Cognitive Grasping through Introspection, Emulation and Surprise
GRASP was an Integrated Project funded by the European Commission through its Cognition Unit under the Information Society Technologies of the seventh Framework Programme (FP7). The aim of GRASP was the design of a cognitive system capable of performing grasping and manipulation tasks in open-ended environments, dealing with novelty, uncertainty and unforeseen situations. To meet the aim of the project, studying the problem of object manipulation and grasping will provide a theoretical and measurable basis for system design that is valid in both human and artificial systems. This is of utmost importance for the design of artificial cognitive systems that are to be deployed in real environments and interact with humans and other agents. Such systems need the ability to exploit the innate knowledge and self-understanding to gradually develop cognitive capabilities. To demonstrate the feasibility of our approach, we will instantiate, implement and evaluate our theories and hypotheses on robot systems with different embodiments and complexity.
2008 to 2012: I worked at the Robotic Intelligence Lab (Universitat Jaume I) under the supervision of Prof. Antonio Morales. Developed OpenGRASP, a simulation toolkit for grasping and dexterous manipulation.
Emergence of Cognitive Grasping through Introspection, Emulation and Surprise
GRASP was an Integrated Project funded by the European Commission through its Cognition Unit under the Information Society Technologies of the seventh Framework Programme (FP7). The aim of GRASP was the design of a cognitive system capable of performing grasping and manipulation tasks in open-ended environments, dealing with novelty, uncertainty and unforeseen situations. To meet the aim of the project, studying the problem of object manipulation and grasping will provide a theoretical and measurable basis for system design that is valid in both human and artificial systems. This is of utmost importance for the design of artificial cognitive systems that are to be deployed in real environments and interact with humans and other agents. Such systems need the ability to exploit the innate knowledge and self-understanding to gradually develop cognitive capabilities. To demonstrate the feasibility of our approach, we will instantiate, implement and evaluate our theories and hypotheses on robot systems with different embodiments and complexity.
2008 to 2012: I worked at the Robotic Intelligence Lab (Universitat Jaume I) under the supervision of Prof. Antonio Morales. Developed OpenGRASP, a simulation toolkit for grasping and dexterous manipulation.
XPERO
Learning by experimentation
XPERO was an Integrated Project funded by the European Commission which overall objective was to develop an embodied cognitive system, which is able to conduct experiments in the real world with the purpose of gaining new insights about the world and the objects therein and to develop and improve its own cognitive skills and overall performance. It is obvious that for the ability to conduct experiments in the real world, embodiment is a fundamental prerequisite.
2006 - 2008: I worked at the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg under the supervision of Prof. Erwin Prassler. Developed XPERSim: A simulator for a robot learning by experimentation and XPERSIF, a software for the integration of the different applications of the project.
Learning by experimentation
XPERO was an Integrated Project funded by the European Commission which overall objective was to develop an embodied cognitive system, which is able to conduct experiments in the real world with the purpose of gaining new insights about the world and the objects therein and to develop and improve its own cognitive skills and overall performance. It is obvious that for the ability to conduct experiments in the real world, embodiment is a fundamental prerequisite.
2006 - 2008: I worked at the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg under the supervision of Prof. Erwin Prassler. Developed XPERSim: A simulator for a robot learning by experimentation and XPERSIF, a software for the integration of the different applications of the project.