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

1542301 Mussa-Ivaldi，Ferdinando A.自成立以来，机器人技术对我们理解大脑如何构建运动，处理感官信息和适应可变环境产生了深远的影响。最近，它已进入中风和其他致残性神经系统疾病幸存者的感觉运动康复临床领域。拟议的研讨会旨在组织机器人专家之间的激烈辩论，在康复研究和感觉运动系统的基础神经科学，以加强这些学科的整合和发展美国和意大利的神经技术和康复卓越中心之间的新的国际合作的双重目的。因此，讲习班的总体目标将是促进机器人技术和神经科学将相遇和互动的关键领域的科学进步，特别强调国家健康方面的最新进展，与世界所有工业化国家老年公民比例不断增加有关。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个机构的科学家组织，即芝加哥康复研究所（RIC）-美国领先的康复研究医院-和意大利理工学院（IIT）-意大利领先的研究中心，研究范围广泛的先进技术，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发展更广泛的美国和意大利神经康复科学和技术研究人员合作网络奠定基础。这一举措的重要性源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紧密联系。预计这种紧密的互动将有助于促进残疾人失去的能力和独立性的恢复，同时扩大当今和未来几代神经工程研究人员的知识和教育领域。为期三天的研讨会将包括四个讨论环节，主题如下：1.感觉运动控制和触觉交互。2.学习和运动认知。3.人机交互。4.神经修复和康复每个主题将由IIT和RIC专家的简短演讲介绍，然后是更详细的演示和关键科学和技术问题的描述。在会议期间和会议结束时，一组小组成员将指出尚未解决的具体问题和未来的挑战，以此指导包括所有与会者在内的讨论。在会议期间和通过编写将被收集在《前沿研究主题》特刊提交材料中的文章，将特别鼓励年轻科学家的参与。第三天，双方的主要研究人员将参观IIT实验室。在那里，讨论前两天出现的合作前景将结束研讨会。

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.