2015 International Workshop on Robotics and Interactive Technologies For Neuroscience and Rehabilitation

【参考翻译】mussa - ivaldi， Ferdinando a .自从机器人技术诞生以来，它对我们理解大脑如何构造运动、处理感觉信息和适应多变的环境产生了深远的影响。最近，它进入了中风和其他神经系统疾病幸存者的感觉-运动康复的临床领域。本次研讨会旨在组织机器人、康复研究和感觉运动系统基础神经科学专家之间的激烈辩论，以加强这些学科的整合，并在美国和意大利的神经技术和康复卓越中心之间发展新的国际合作。因此，讲习班的总目标将是促进机器人技术和神经科学相结合和相互作用的关键领域的科学进步，特别强调与世界所有工业化国家老年人比例不断增加有关的国民健康方面的最新进展。此外，该项目将推进康复领域，加强美国研究的领导地位。关于先进机器人和机器人神经康复的热点问题的辩论将由来自两家机构的科学家组织，即芝加哥康复研究所(RIC) -美国康复研究的领先医院-和意大利理工学院(IIT) -意大利领先的广泛先进技术研究中心，包括神经康复，机器人和纳米技术。这两个研究中心之间的互动旨在为美国和意大利研究人员在神经康复科学和技术方面发展更广泛的合作网络奠定基础。这项倡议的意义在于，它有可能增强和保持基础神经科学的见解与临床领域快速技术发展的独创性的密切联系。预计这种紧密的相互作用将有助于促进残疾人丧失能力和独立性的恢复，同时为当前和未来几代神经工程研究人员扩大智力和教育领域。为期三天的讲习班将包括四次讨论，主题如下：感觉-运动控制和触觉相互作用。学习与运动认知。人类interactions.4 /机器。每个主题将由IIT和RIC专家简要介绍，然后是更详细的演示和关键科学和技术问题的描述。一组小组成员将在会议期间和结束时指导讨论，包括所有参与者，指出具体未解决的问题和未来的挑战。特别鼓励青年科学家在会议期间和通过准备文章的方式参与，这些文章将收集在《前沿研究主题》特刊的投稿中。第三天，两家机构的首席研究员将访问印度理工学院的实验室。在那里，对前两天出现的观点合作的讨论将结束研讨会。

1542301Mussa-Ivaldi, Ferdinando A.Since its inception, Robotics has had a profound impact on our understanding of how the brain constructs movements, processes sensory information and adapts to variable environments. In more recent times it has entered the clinical domain of sensory-motor rehabilitation for survivors of stroke and other disabling neurological conditions. The proposed workshop is intended to organize a vigorous debate between experts in robotics, in rehabilitation research and in the basic neuroscience of the sensory-motor system with the dual purpose of enhancing the integration of these disciplines and developing new international collaborations between centers of excellence for Neurotechnologies and Rehabilitation in the United States and Italy. Therefore, the general goal of the workshop will be to promote the progress of science in the critical area where robotics and neuroscience are going to meet and interact, with a specific emphasis on state of the art advances in the national health, in relation with the increasing percentage of senior citizens in all industrialized countries of the world. Moreover, the project will advance the rehabilitation field strengthening the leadership of US research.The debate on the hot issues of Advanced Robotics and Robotic Neurorehabilitation will be organized by scientists from two institutions, namely the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) - the leading US hospital for rehabilitation research - and the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) - the leading Italian research center for a broad spectrum of advanced technologies, including neurorehabilitation, robotics and nanotechnology. The interaction between these two research centers is intended to be a seed for developing a broader collaborative network of US and Italian researchers in neurorehabilitation science and technology. The significance of this initiative stems from its potential to enhance and maintain the close contiguity of insights from basic neuroscience with the ingenuity of rapid technological developments in the clinical domain. It is expected that this tight interaction will serve to promote the recovery of lost abilities and independence in the disabled population, while expanding the intellectual and educational domains for current and future generations of researchers in neural engineering.The three-days workshop will include four discussion sessions, on the following themes:1. Sensory-motor control and haptic interactions.2. Learning and motor cognition.3. Human/machine interactions.4. Neuroprosthetics and rehabilitationEach theme will be introduced by brief presentations from IIT and RIC experts, followed by more detailed demonstrations and descriptions of key scientific and technological issues. A group of panelists will guide the discussion, inclusive of all participants, during and at the end of the meeting, by pointing at specific unresolved problems and future challenges. Participation of junior scientists will be particularly encouraged both during the meeting and through the preparation of articles that will be collected in the submission for a special issue of Frontiers Research Topics. On the third day, principal investigators from both institutions will visit the IIT laboratories. There, a discussion of the perspective collaborations that have emerged in the previous two days will conclude the workshop.