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2023/07/03 | People | Robotics

PhD thesis defense Eduardo Villar Ortega

Congratulations to Eduardo Villar Ortega on successfully defending his PhD thesis at the Motor Learning and Rehabilitation group on 28 June 2023! Under the title of “Combining somatosensory stimulation with robotic training to enhance neurorehabilitation” he investigated how a robotic rehabilitation of the arm combined with whole-hand sensory electrical stimulation could impact somatosensory improvements and positively modulate brain areas related to sensory processing.

Experimental set-up. The Delta.3 robot was located on a table next to a LED monitor, which showed the virtual environment. Participants wore noise-cancelling headphones and used an arm-weight support system, adjusted to individual arm weight. (https://doi.org/10.3389/fresc.2022.929431)

Publications:

Enhancing touch sensibility by sensory retraining in a sensory discrimination task via haptic rendering. Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences, 3 Frontiers Media (2022).
Assessing Touch Sensibility with a Robotic System for Sensory Rehabilitation. In: 2021 IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC) (p. 336). Montreal, QC, Canada: IEEE (2021).
Haptic Rendering Modulates Task Performance, Physical Effort and Movement Strategy during Robot-Assisted Training. In: 8th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics & Biomechatronics (BioROB 2020) (pp. 1223-1228). IEEE (2020).
High-frequency transcutaneous cervical electrical stimulation: A pilot study. Artificial organs. Wiley-Blackwell (2019).

Motor Learning and Neurorehabilitation