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

目标和方法。本研究的目的是创造一个新的信息物理系统，一个自我重组？第二个皮肤矫正套由可编程材料组成。 佩戴在脑损伤个体的一个或多个肢体上的矫正套筒可以通过促进对自我产生的肢体运动的丰富探索来恢复脑功能。该方法由三个步骤组成：（1）微制造具有嵌入式传感器和肌肉状的力产生致动器集合的片材，（2）通过通常发育和早产脑损伤的婴儿进行踢的纵向记录，这些婴儿穿戴传感但未致动的微制造的第二皮肤，以及（3）开发生物学启发的编程技术以帮助确定第二皮肤嵌入式致动器可以自适应地辅助所述不断运动的运动的算法。改变婴儿踢腿的发展模式。该技术可应用于许多行动不便的人群，包括脑损伤的儿童和成人、老龄人口和受伤的士兵。该项目将为基础科学和工程研究提供信息，例如通过大型多智能体机器人系统形成建筑结构，以及与生物系统合作自主行动的蜂拥而至的小规模智能体的自组织。这项研究奋进的多机构努力将通过探索网络物理系统中生物学和计算的交叉点，对本科生和研究生的科学教育产生积极影响。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，使其在技术上具有专家资格，科学上全面，并具有社会意识，以便在越来越多地基于技术复杂系统的未来保持国家的卓越。

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.