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large product photo   Instituto de Automática Industrial, IAI-CSIC

The Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC, is a Research Organization comprising more than 120 Institutes, with a total of about 8,900 people, active in several scientific areas. Within the ESBiRRo project, CSIC will be represented by the Instituto de Automática Industrial, IAI-CSIC-CSIC. CSIC will co-ordinate the project and will be active in research activities together with other project partners. The Instituto de Automática Industrial, at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, is a scientific research centre oriented to obtaining new knowledge and technologies in the field of processes, systems and advanced strategies of measurement, inspection, control and actuation. Currently 130 people work at the IAI-CSIC-CSIC, being 30 of them full time researchers. Over the last decade, IAI-CSIC-CSIC has been active in the field of advanced systems for rehabilitation, functional restoration of physical impairment and in general technical aids for disabled. Our Institute has developed these activities in the framework of National, European and International projects. As far as European projects are concerned, IAI-CSIC-CSIC has co-ordinated the 4th Framework Telematics project MANUS on the development of advanced upper limb prosthetics. IAI-CSIC co-ordinated GAIT project, contract IST-2001-37751 for developing a Intelligent knee and ankle orthosis for biomechanical evaluation and functional compensation of joint disorder; and it was also involved in the 5th Framework QoF project DRIFTS on active suppression of tremor after neurological disorders.
In the framework of ESBiRRo, the IAI-CSIC-CSIC will act as project co-ordinator as well as technical developer in those aspects related to control, signal processing, networking architecture integration as well as combined analysis of movement and EMG data. IAI-CSIC-CSIC will be supported for the coordination task by the administrative staff at CSIC.

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large product photo   Technische Universiteit Delft, TUDelft

TU Delft is the largest technical university in The Netherlands, with approximately 4,500 employees and 13,000 students. The ESBIRRO project will be executed at the Delft Biorobotics Laboratory, which is part of the BioMechanical Engineering group (BMechE) and of the Delft Center for Mechatronics and Microsystems, all situated in the department of Mechanical Engineering. These groups have extensive knowledge of biomechanics and human motion control, as well as design abilities to transform this knowledge into lightweight, energy efficient and easily controllable technical systems. Understanding of complex multibody dynamics is present in BMechE and in the closely related Engineering Mechanics group. The research topics in this group that are in close relation to the proposed project are prosthetics, bio-robotics, haptics, bipedal walkers and mobile pneumatics. On the field of bipedal walking robots, this group occupies a prominent position in the world.

In the ESBiRRo project, the work of TU Delft is concentrated around the development of the biped hardware. This means the conceptual design (number of Degrees of Freedom, choice of actuators, choice of sensors), the detailed design and production of the robot, and the actual implementation of the biomimetic control ideas. In addition, TU Delft has available the technology for a combined camera/inertia sensor that was developed in a recent project on “Self Localization for Ambient Awareness” where this sensor system was mounted on a head-mounted display. Obviously, each of these tasks will be carried out in close collaboration with the other consortium members. For the project work, the team draws on support and knowledge from recent experience as well as from ongoing related projects (funded from non-EU sources) as listed below.

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The role of OSSUR will be to lead the exploitation part of the project and give input into other WP’s from industry point of view. Ossur has also considerable experience in testing, test conditions and validations and this will be utilised where relevant. Finally, Ossur operates a well equipped machine shop that will be available for building prototype parts. Ossur will provide general support for other project partners, as well as being the link to commercialisation and protection of knowledge. For additional information:

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large product photo   Technaid S.L.

The main function of TECHNAID in this project takes place in WP 1, 5, 6, 7 and 8. The role of TECHNAID comprises to major tasks: Firstly, considering the knowledge of TECHNAID about inertial sensing solutions, it will support the design and implementation of inertial measurements, from the low-level hardware to the systems integration level. Secondly, on the final stage of the project (WP7 and 8) TECHNAID, as a company with experience in the validation of pre-commercial prototypes and end consumer products, will be responsible for system testing, validation, documentation and exploitation, independently from the Academic and research institutions that are responsible of the design. Additional information can be obtained from:

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