Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London
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Overview
This talk will discuss the key societal challenges, robotic technologies for delivering effective care and opportunities for the healthcare industry. Professor Shane Xie will cover the recent development of robotics for stroke rehabilitation, the research gaps and the need for new technologies in neuroscience, robotics and artificial intelligence.
The lecture will introduce a EPSRC-funded project on intelligent reconfigurable exoskeletons tailored to meet patients’ needs, deliver effective diagnosis and personalised treatment, and monitored remotely by rehabilitation therapists. The talk will also briefly introduce the Leeds Centre for Assistive/Rehabilitation Robotics and our work on ankle robot, gait exoskeleton, gait upper limb bilaterial robot, neuromuscular and brain computer interfaces. The focus is on the technologies for those whose strength and coordination have been affected by amputation, stroke, spinal cord injury, cerebral palsy and ageing.
Day 1
18:00 - Lecture Programme
18:00 - Registration
18:30 - Lecture to commence
19:10 - Questions from the audience
19:30 - Lecture concludes
Professor Shane Xie: Chair of Robotics and Autonomous Systems and Director of the Rehabilitation Robotics Lab, University of Leeds
Prof Shane (Sheng Q) Xie, Ph.D., FIPENZ, is the Chair of Robotics and Autonomous Systems and Director of the Rehabilitation Robotics Lab at the University of Leeds, and he was the Director of the Rehabilitation and Medical Robotics Centre at the University of Auckland, New Zealand (NZ, 2002-2016).
He has over 28 years of research experience in healthcare robotics and exoskeletons. He has published more than 400 refereed papers and 8 books in rehabilitation exoskeleton design and control, neuromuscular modelling, and advanced human-robot interaction.
He has supervised over 15 postdocs, 62 PhDs and 80 MEs in his team with funding of approximately £27m from five countries since 2003. His team has invented three award-winning rehabilitation exoskeletons.
He is an expert in control of exoskeletons, i.e. impedance control, adaptive control, sliding mode control, and iterative learning control for the world-renowned Rex Bionics exoskeleton.
He has received many distinguished awards including the New Zealand Science Challenge Award, the David Bensted Fellowship Award, and the AMP Invention Award. He is an elected Fellow of the Institute of Professional Engineers of New Zealand and the Technical Editor for IEEE/ASME Transaction on Mechatronics.
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