CPS:MEDIUM:Programmable Second Skin to Re-educate Injured Nervous Systems

CPS：中：可编程第二皮肤重新教育受伤的神经系统

• 批准号: 0932015
• 负责人: Eugene Goldfield
• 金额: $ 143.84万
• 依托单位: Children's Hospital Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0932015&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CPS; MEDIUM; Programmable; Second; Skin

Objectives and approaches. The objective of this research is to create a novel Cyber-Physical System, a self-reconfiguring ?second skin orthotic sleeve? consisting of programmable materials. The orthotic sleeve, worn over one or more limbs of brain-injured individuals, may restore brain function by promoting enriched exploration of self-produced limb movements. The approach consists of three steps (1) micro-fabricating sheets with embedded sensors and muscle-like collections of force-producing actuators, (2) conducting longitudinal recordings of kicking by typically developing and preterm brain-injured infants who wear a sensing, but not actuated micro-fabricated second skin, and (3) developing biologically-inspired programming techniques to help determine an algorithm with which the second skin embedded actuators may adaptively assist the ever-changing developmental pattern of infant kicking.The technology can be applied to many mobility-impaired populations,including children and adults with brain injury, the ageing population, and injured soldiers. The project will inform basic scientific and engineering research in areas such as formation of architectural structures by large-scale multi-agent robotic systems, and self-organization of swarming small-scale agents that act autonomously in cooperation with biological systems. The multi-institutional effort of this research endeavor will positively impact undergraduate and graduate science education via explorations of the intersection of biology and computation in cyber-physical systems. Innovation, teamwork, and the value of communication are encouraged. These efforts will promote education of an American work force that is technically expert, scientifically comprehensive, and socially aware to sustain national excellence in a future increasingly based on technologically complex systems.

目标和方法。本研究的目的是创造一种新颖的信息物理系统，一种自我重新配置？第二皮肤矫形袖？由可编程材料组成的佩戴在脑损伤患者的一条或多条肢体上的矫形袖，可以通过促进对自我产生的肢体运动的丰富探索来恢复大脑功能。该方法包括三个步骤：(1)微制造嵌入传感器和类似肌肉的力产生致动器集合的薄片；(2)对典型发育和早产脑损伤婴儿进行纵向记录，这些婴儿戴上传感器，但没有微制造的第二层皮肤。(3)开发受生物学启发的编程技术，以帮助确定一种算法，使第二皮肤嵌入的执行器能够自适应地协助婴儿踢腿不断变化的发育模式。这项技术可以应用于许多行动不便的人群，包括患有脑损伤的儿童和成人、老龄化人口和受伤的士兵。该项目将为基础科学和工程研究领域提供信息，如大规模多主体机器人系统的建筑结构形成，以及与生物系统合作自主行动的成群小规模主体的自组织。这项研究的多机构努力将通过探索生物和计算在网络物理系统中的交叉，对本科和研究生科学教育产生积极的影响。鼓励创新、团队合作和沟通的价值。这些努力将促进美国劳动力的教育，使其在技术上专业、科学上全面、社会意识强，从而在一个日益以技术复杂系统为基础的未来保持国家卓越。