Cristian Camardella

Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna | SSSUP · Institute of Communication, lnformation and Perception Technologies TECIP

Rehabilitation in virtual reality offers advantages in terms of flexibility and parametrization of exercises, repeatability, and continuous data recording and analysis of the progress of the patient, also promoting high engagement and cognitive challenges. Still, most of the proposed virtual settings provide a high quality, immersive visual and aud...

While Virtual Reality has slowly become a common sight, haptics is still struggling to appeal to the general public. We argue that one of the possible reasons is that while VR is designed to be as easily adaptable as possible to many different contexts, haptics is often designed to fulfil a specific purpose and fails to present itself as a tool tha...

Modern immersive virtual reality (VR) systems include embedded hand tracking, stand-alone and wireless operation, fast donning and calibration: these features are precious for usability of rehabilitation serious games in the clinical practice, envisaging also home-care applications. Can wearable haptics well integrate with the above features? Diffe...

This work presents a description of the EXOS-MOOTH project, oriented to the benchmarking of lower limb exoskeletons performance. In the field of assisted walking by powered lower limb exoskeletons, the EXOSMOOTH project proposes an experiment that targets two scientific questions. The first question is related to the effectiveness of a novel contro...

This work presents a description of the EXOSMOOTH project, oriented to the benchmarking of lower limb exoskeletons performance. In the field of assisted walking by powered lower limb exoskeletons, the EXOSMOOTH project proposes an experiment that targets two scientific questions. The first question is related to the effectiveness of a novel control...

In myo-control, for computational and setup constraints, the measurement of a high number of muscles is not always possible: the choice of the muscle set to use in a myo-control strategy depends on the desired application scope and a search for a reduced muscle set, tailored to the application, has never been performed. The identification of such s...

Lower limbs exoskeletons provide assistance during standing, squatting, and walking. Gait dynamics, in particular, implies a change in the configuration of the device in terms of contact points, actuation, and system dynamics in general. In order to provide a comfortable experience and maximize performance, the exoskeleton should be controlled smoo...

Lower limbs exoskeletons provide assistance during standing, squatting, and walking. Gait dynamics, in particular, implies a change in the configuration of the device in terms of contact points, actuation, and system dynamics in general. In order to provide a comfortable experience and maximize performance, the exoskeleton should be controlled smoo...

A major challenge in the design and control of exoskeletons is the preservation of the user.s natural behavior when interacting with these machines. From this point of view, one of the most important features is the transparency of the exoskeleton. An ideally transparent exoskeleton follows the user's movements without interaction forces. This is t...

Despite its significant role in the history of videogames, the world of racing games is still fairly unexplored. In this paper, we present the result of a study aimed at understanding how different hardware peripherals such as controllers and racing wheels can influence the perception of racing games, and how tracks’ features correlate with players...

The development of a functional myoelectric control represents a big challenge within the researchers community, due to the complexity of mapping the user’s movement intention onto the control signals. It is continuously gaining attention since it could be useful for building natural, intuitive and tailored human-machine interfaces. In this context...

The current knowledge about muscle synergies does not clearly explain how both rehabilitation and brain plasticity act on the way they evolve after a cortical stroke. In this preliminary study, the authors analyzed the correlation between healthy and affected muscle synergies and the way the latter change after rehabilitation, following the clinica...

The growing interest in wearable robots opens the challenge for developing intuitive and natural control strategies. Among several human-machine interaction approaches, myoelectric control consists of decoding the motor intention from muscular activity (or EMG signals) with the aim of driving prosthetic or assistive robotic devices accordingly, thu...

The rapid growing interest in the field of wearable robots opens the challenge for the development of intuitive and natural control strategies for establishing an effective human-robot interaction. The myoelectric control could be a valid solution for achieving this goal, since it is a strategy based on decoding the human motor intentions from surf...

The assessment of stroke patients is a long lasting process in which physicians estimate the impairment import of the patients through clinical scales and physiological exams. This is a crucial phase for defining the patient treatment as well as monitoring the recovery process. In order to support the whole set of operations involved in the assessm...