Assistive personal robotics platform with an exoskeleton using the tongue for intelligent control as a use case (EXOTIC)
Project: Research › Research Project
- Struijk, Lotte N. S. Andreasen (Project Manager)
- Gajhede, Michael Lyhne (Project Participant)
- Bai, Shaoping (Project Participant)
- Kanstrup, Anne Marie (Project Participant)
- Moeslund, Thomas B. (Project Participant)
- Bak, Thomas (Project Participant)
- Kasch, Helge (Project Participant)
- The Faculty of Engineering and Science
- The Faculty of Medicine
- The Technical Faculty of IT and Design
- Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology
- Department of Clinical Medicine
- Department of Electronic Systems
- Department of Health Science and Technology
- Department of Materials and Production
- Department of Planning
- Automation & Control
- Center for Sensory-Motor Interaction
- Physics and Mechanics
- Section for Media Technology - Campus Aalborg
- Danish Centre for Health Informatics
- The Center for Applied Game Research
- Solid and Computational Mechanics
- Mobility and Tracking Technologies
- Integrative Neuroscience
- Visual Analysis of People Laboratory
- Aalborg U Robotics
- Klinik Hoved-Orto
- Aalborg University Hospital
- Department of Otorhinolaryngoloy
- Vestdansk Center for Rygmarvsskade
Description
Population ageing is challenging the number of available caregivers for individuals with functional disabilities. Exoskeleton (Exo) technology has a great potential to both rehabilitate and empower disabled citizens and to protect caregivers from injuries. However, the technology is facing a paradox: The larger the disability, the larger the potential of using an Exo, and yet the harder it is to control it. Additionally, if the technology is not acceptable for the user it will not be used.
Acceptance requires an aesthetic system that is applicable in daily life. Therefore, this project concerns a user-based, tongue-controlled arm/hand Exo as a platform for worldleading research on a full-body AAU bio-exoskeleton: the EXOTIC.
Relation to the AAU strategy: Close interdisciplinary collaboration is essential to unite user centred-design, bio-interfacing, artificial intelligence, control and mechanics into the biocontrolled Exo and ensure its societal anchoring.
Assistive personal robotics is highly prioritized in H2020 (Investing 700 million € over 7 years in robotics), FORSK2025, and Innovation Fund Denmark.
Acceptance requires an aesthetic system that is applicable in daily life. Therefore, this project concerns a user-based, tongue-controlled arm/hand Exo as a platform for worldleading research on a full-body AAU bio-exoskeleton: the EXOTIC.
Relation to the AAU strategy: Close interdisciplinary collaboration is essential to unite user centred-design, bio-interfacing, artificial intelligence, control and mechanics into the biocontrolled Exo and ensure its societal anchoring.
Assistive personal robotics is highly prioritized in H2020 (Investing 700 million € over 7 years in robotics), FORSK2025, and Innovation Fund Denmark.
Acronym | EXOTIC |
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Status | Active |
Effective start/end date | 01/02/2018 → 31/01/2021 |
Links | http://www.strategi.aau.dk/Forskning/Tv%C3%A6rvidenskabelige+forskningsprojekter/EXOTIC/ |
Press/Media
Exoskeletter giver lammede nye muligheder
Press/Media: Press / Media
Collaborative partners
- Aalborg University (lead)
- Vestdansk Center for Rygmarvsskade