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Prof. Tom Carlson discussed his group's research into the development of brain-machine interfaces (BMI) on 'Mornings with Simi' for Global News Radio in Vancouver, Canada. Listen on Spotify.
Instant Genius听is a bite-sized masterclass podcast for the BBC Science Focus Magazine. In this episode, Professor Tom Carlson explores the rapidly expanding world of brain-machine interfaces.
最准的六合彩论坛 clinician designs 3D printed biomimetic neck collar
The device combines 3D scanning, procedural design and 3D printing to create personalised support braces that are light, strong, and comfortable for the patient.
Case study: I always wanted my future to be in robotics
PhD student Chinemelu developed a smart wheelchair equipped with mobile robotic technology to assist the user in particular situations.
Case study: Haptics for amputees
We combine Haptics, Sense of Embodiment/Agency, and VR to create听an听optimum rehabilitative method to help reduce phantom limb pain in amputees.
Our work
Set up in 2014, Aspire CREATE develops translational research to improve the quality of life of people with spinal cord injuries (SCIs). We investigate techniques that are applicable and transferable between different domains in related areas of interest. These include, but are not limited to:
- spinal cord and nerve injury
- stroke
- muscular dystrophy
- amputation
- ageing populations
- training of specialised skills (e.g., surgical).
We regularly invite school students to test our projects and get involved in the science. This is one of our favourite engagement activities. The students learn a lot, and our team learns from them too.
Research themes
Our facilities
Aspire Create is well-equipped with state-of-the-art facilities for developing and evaluating assistive and rehabilitative technologies. Our key lab facilities include dedicated:
- Mechatronic workshop
- Mechanical testing workshop
- Robotics lab
- 3D printing lab
- CAD/CAM facilities
- HaMMoC - Human and machine motion capture platform, with full-body optical tracking
- 2 x Human experiment labs
Our people
Head:
听(2014-2022)
Members
- Research Associates
- Dr Sean Doherty (Postdoc) |听sean.doherty.15@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Elliott Magee (Postdoc) | e.magee@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Ha Le (Postdoc) |听h.le@ucl.ac.uk
Former associates
- Dr Tijana Jevtic | Postdoc
- Dr Kylie de Jager |Senior Postdoc
- Dr Stefan Catalin Teodorescu | Postdoc, 2018-2021
- Dr Harry Eberle | Postdoc, 2019-2021
- Dr Bonolo Mathibela |Postdoc, 2018-2021
- Dr Yazi Al鈥檍oboori | Postdoc
- Dr Fjodors Tjulkins |听Postdoc, 2017-2018
- Dr Yazi Al鈥檍oboori | Postdoc
- Dr Henry Lancashire |听Postdoc, 2017-2018
- Dr Alireza Rastegarpanah |听Postdoc, 2017-2018
- Dr Michael Mentink |听Postdoc, 2015-2017
- PhD students
- Ivy Mumuni | ivy.mumuni.23@ucl.ac.uk
- Ziyue Zhu | 锄颈测耻别.锄丑耻.23蔼耻肠濒.补肠.耻办听
- Haiming Luo | haiming.luo.22@ucl.ac.uk
- Jianan Chen | jianan.chen.22@ucl.ac.uk
- Xinkai Zhou | xinkai.zhou.21@ucl.ac.uk
- Yunyi Zhao | yunyi.zhao.21@ucl.ac.uk
- Yunjia Xia | yunjia.xia.18@ucl.ac.uk
- Marim Basiouny | marim.basiouny.19@ucl.ac.uk
- Irving Caplan | i.caplan@ucl.ac.uk
- Nayereh Seyedarabi | n.seyedarabi@ucl.ac.uk
Former PhD students
- Dr Constantinos (Costas) Heracleous | PhD Student
- Dr Elliott Magee | PhD Student
- Dr Reni Magbagbeola | PhD Student
- Dr Sarah Massey | PhD Student
- Nadia Sciacca | PhD Student
- Dr Fraje Watson | PhD Student
- Dr Bingqing (Pat) Zhang | PhD Student听
- Dr Chinemelu Ezeh | PhD student, 2014-2018
- Dr Andrew Symonds | PhD student
- Research assistants
Former research assistants
- Johnny McNulty | j.mcnulty@ucl.ac.uk
- Peter Snow (PhD student) | p.snow@ucl.ac.uk
- George Walker | 听george.walker@ucl.ac.uk
- Ha Le | Research Assistant, 2014-16
- Affiliated researchers
- Dr Henry Lancashire听|听h.lancashire@ucl.ac.uk
- Prof. Nick Donaldson | n.donaldson@ucl.ac.uk
- Prof. Catherine Holloway |听c.holloway@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Catalin Stefan Teodorescu |听s.teodorescu@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Giulia Barbareschi |听giulia.barbareschi.14@ucl.ac.uk
- Former students
最准的六合彩论坛 students
- Jonathan Derland | MSc 2022-23
- Xiuyuan听Li | MSc 2022-23
- Yuhan听Li 听| MSc 2022-23
- Tianheng Luo | MSc 2022-23
- Miguel Luzardo Mart铆nez | MSc 2022-23
- Charlie Taylor | MSc 2022-23
- Yutong Wu | MSc 2022-23
- Richard Armstrong-Wood | MSc 2017-22 (modular flexible)
- Sanjith Chandran | MSc 2021-22
- Edmund Da Silva | MSc 2021-22
- Dikshya Gurung | MSc 2021-22
- Danelle Julal | MSc 2021-22
- Francesca Losacco | MSc 2021-22
- Elayna Render | MSc 2021-22
- Michael Warwick | MSc 2021-22
- Kwan Wong | MSc 2021-22
- Yaoxuan Huang | PGDip 2021-22
- Hannah Catherine Campbell | MSc, 2020-21
- Elisabeth Diane Joyce听 | MSc, 2020-21
- Amber Ruth Kite听 | MSc, 2020-21
- Chrysolvalanto Messiou听 | MSc, 2020-21
- Stephanie Anne Stephanie Panousis听 | MSc, 2020-21
- Paporn Chokpitiboon听| MSc, 2020-21
- Jack Evans | MSc, 2020-21
- Vitella Fomenko | MSc, 2020-21
- Federico Fries | MSc, 2020-21
- Chongli Gao | MSc, 2020-21
- Kukena Esther Kaindama | MSc, 2020-21
- Alina Khafizova | MSc, 2020-21
- Arnaud Jacques Herv茅 Lauriau | PGDip, 2020-21
- Athiya Anindya | MSc, 2019-20
- Elizabeth Reynolds |听MSc, 2018-19
- Ms Lydia Mardell |听MSc student, 2017-18
- Ms Susannah Lee |听MSc student, 2017-18
- Ms Suji Im |听MSc student, 2017-18
- Ms Ashley Coggins |听MSc student, 2017-18
- Mr Devash Hanoomanjee |听MSc student, 2016-17
- Ms Fatma Hegazi |听MSc student, 2016-17
- Ms Mariam Hegazi |听MSc student, 2016-17
- Mr Yu Imaoka |听MSc student, 2016-17
- Ms Sarah Massey |听MSc student, 2016-17
- Mr Jeremy Low |听MSc student, 2015-16
- Mr Vincent (Vinnie) Kehoe |听iBSc student, 2015-16
- Ms Darshni Pandya |听iBSc student, 2015-16
- Mr Alex Zervudachi |听iBSc student, 2015-16
- Mr Ashish Rathore |听iBSc student, 2014-15
- Mr Matthew Willett |听iBSc student, 2014-15听
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Visiting students
- Martin Blondiau |听Visiting student, 2018
- Nicholas Hautekeet |听Visiting student, 2018
- Ms Louise Devigne |听Visiting PhD, 2016 & 2017
- Mr Nicolas Le Borgne |听Visiting student, 2017
- Mr Valentin Buereau |听Visiting student,听2016
- Mr Eric Sanchez |听Visiting student,听2016
- Mr Joris Van der Cruijsen |听Visiting student,听2014-15
- Mr Pierre Jestin |听Visiting student,听2014-15
- Mr Matthew Wilcox |听Visiting student,听2014-15
- Mr Antoine Mouraux |听Visiting student,听2014-15
- Ms Jeviya Mohanakrishnan |听Visiting student,听2014-15
- Mr Tiago Toste |听Visiting student,听2014-15
Funding / Partnerships
We are proud to be part of:
The organisations we work with include:
- Aspire Charity
- Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital
- Barbara Bus Fund
- Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA)
We would like to thank the organisations that fund our work:
Selected publications
- Morbidi, F., Devigne, L., Teodorescu, C.S., Carlson, T., et al. (2022). . IEEE Robotics and Automation magazine, 2-14.
- Papadopoulou, A., Kumar, N.S., Vanhoestenberghe, A.听& Francis, N.K. (2022). .听The British Journal of Surgery, znac191.
- Pacaux-Lemoine, M.P., Habib, L., Carlson, T. (2022). Levels of Cooperation in Human-Machine Systems: A Human-BCI-Robot example. In Fortino, G., Kaber, D., Nurnberger, A., Mendoca, D. (eds.), . Wiley-IEEE Press.
- Teodorescu, C., Zhang, B. &听Carlson, T. (2021). .听IFAC PapersOnLine 53-2 (2020) 10148鈥�10153.
- Jiang, D., Liu, F., Lancashire, H.T., Vanhoestenberghe, A., et al. (2021). . Frontiers in Neuroscience, 15
- Peterken, F., Benjaber, M., Doherty, S., Donaldson, N., et al. (2021). .听43rd International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society.
- Al'Joboori, Y., Hannah, R., Francesca, L., Duffell, L., et al. (2021). . Frontiers in Neuroscience, 15.
- Yue, K., Lancashire, H., de Jager, K., Vanhoestenberghe, A., et al. (2021). . IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, 1.
- Zhang, B., Eberle, H., Holloway, C., Carlson, T. (2021). . International Journal of Social Robotics, 14,听631-643.
- Ghoreishizadeh, S.S., Liu, Y., Carminati, M. (2021). . IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, 15 (5), 859.
- Debelle, A., Hesta, M., de Rooster, H., Vanhoestenberghe, A., et al. (2021). . Artificial Organs, 46 (6), 1055-1067.
- Debelle, A., de Rooster, H.,听Vanhoestenberghe, A., et al. (2021). . Medical Engineering and Physics, 92, 93-101.
- McNulty, J., de Jager, K., Lancashire, H.T., Vanhoestenberghe, A., et al. (2021). . IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, 1.
- Lamont, C., Grego, T., Vanhoestenberghe, A., Donaldson, N., et al.听(2021). . Journal of Neural Engineering, 18.
- Oldfrey, B., Loureiro, R., Holloway, C., et al.听(2021). . Medical Engineering & Physics, 87, 45-55.
- Watson, F., Fino, P.C., Heracleous, C., Loureiro, R., et al. (2021). . BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 22 (1).
- Pacaux-Lemoine M-P.,听Habib L., Sciacca N.听&听Carlson T. (2020). IEEE International Conference on Human-Machine Systems (ICHMS),听Rome.
Abbink DA., Carlson T., Mulder M., de Winter JCF., et al. (2018). . IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, 48(5), 509-525.
Rastegarpanah, A., Rakhodaei, H., Saadat, M., Loureiro, R.C.V., et al. (2018).听. Advances in Mechanical Engineering. January 2018.
Snow, P.W., Sedki, I., Sinisi, M., Comley, R. &听Loureiro, R.C.V. (2017).听.听International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR), pp. 1019-1024.
Related courses
Rehabilitation Engineering & Assistive Technologies MSc
This MSc focuses on the design, development and clinical application of new rehabilitative and assistive technologies to help restore motor functions.
Physical Therapy in Musculoskeletal Healthcare & Rehabilitation MSc
This MSc teaches the scientific principles of physical therapy and allows you to experience the clinical application of specialist rehabilitation techniques.
How to reach us听
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital
Brockley Hill
Stanmore,听HA7 4LP
- Our office: Institute of Orthopaedics and Musculoskeletal Science. (Building 6, ref. 8D.)
- Our main lab: Peripheral Nerve Injury unit. (Building 37, ref. 5E.)
It can be tricky听to find your way around the site. We have created a photo guide to help you find our office.听