Scignabot

In 2019, Scignabot proposed exploring the combination of brain-robot interfaces and motor rehabilitation after brain injury. The project focused on using patients’ brain activity to interact with robotic rehabilitation systems.

For background, read Perineuro on brain-machine interfaces (in Spanish).

Scignabot’s technological foundations

The SCIGNABOT project was built on previous technological results developed in collaboration by the members of the consortium, financed by competitive projects by national and European plans (H2020). The main parts identified as foundations for the project were:   

PUPArm (Robotic therapy and rehabilitation games)

     It is a planar pneumatic robot with 2 degrees of freedom. It has been designed for the neuromuscular rehabilitation of the upper part of the arms. PUPArm is part of a complete rehabilitation system that includes biofeedback, visual interfaces and virtual rehabilitation. Rehabilitation games   

HOMEREHAB Project (Low Cost Exoskeleton)

     a new robotic tele-rehabilitation system to provide therapy to patients with stroke at home; The complex compromise between robotic design requirements for home systems and the performance required for optimal rehabilitation therapies, which current commercial systems designed for laboratories and hospitals do not take into account, were to be investigated. In addition, the new home setting also requires intelligent monitoring of the patient’s physiological status and adaptation of rehabilitation therapy for optimal service.   

TRAINER: motor rehabilitation with a brain-robot interface

TRAINER was developed within the Scignabot line of work, focusing on upper-limb motor rehabilitation through a brain-robot interface. Its objective was to design, test and validate a system combining rehabilitation robotics and brain activity to support recovery after acquired brain injury.

In 2019, the project received €60,000 from the Mutua Madrileña Foundation. Nicolás García Aracil and Juan Antonio Barios Heredero participated from Miguel Hernández University, alongside Fundación San José Hospital and the Madrid Neurological Sciences Unit, with collaboration from Scignals. The work took place at the New Technologies Laboratory of the San José Institute Foundation.

TRAINER gave Scignabot’s approach a concrete application: connecting brain signal acquisition and processing with robotic systems for neurorehabilitation. Read the news about the project and the support from Mutua Madrileña.

Project AIDE (Functional integration of the Brain computer interface)

     a new modular system of multimodal perception to customize an adaptive multimodal interface for the needs of people with disabilities. The multimodal interface analyzes and extracts relevant information from the identification of residual abilities, behaviors, emotional state and intentions of the user, from the analysis of the environment and context factors.

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