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SUMMARY:Neuromorphic tactile coding to restore fine texture discrimination
  in upper limb amputees
DTSTART:20140709T113000
DTEND:20140709T123000
DTSTAMP:20260407T164038Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Calogero Oddo\, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (SSSA)\, Pis
 a\, Italy.\nBio: Dr. Calogero Maria Oddo (gender: male\, date of birth: 10
 /05/1983) is Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at Scuola Superiore San
 t’Anna (SSSA)\, Pisa\, Italy\, and head of the Human Machine Nexus Labor
 atory at The BioRobotics Institute\, coordinating a team of 15 research fe
 llows (10 males\, 5 females). He is tutor of 3 PhD students in biorobotics
 \, and he supervised 1 BSc Thesis and 4 MSc Theses on bioengineering topic
 s.\nUnder the mentoring of Prof. Maria Chiara Carrozza he obtained\, all w
 ith honours: PhD in BioRobotics from SSSA (graduated in May 2011\, admitte
 d in January 2008 first in the ranking of candidates to the BioRobotics pr
 ogramme)\, MSc and BSc in Electronic Engineering from University of Pisa (
 in July 2007 and July 2005\, respectively\, first student graduating in th
 e Master and Bachelor courses)\, 2nd and 1st level degrees in Industrial a
 nd Information Engineering from SSSA (admitted in September 2002 to a sele
 ctive programme with 10 positions and 334 applicants\, confirmed in 2005 a
 s first in the ranking of SSSA engineering students).\nHe attended courses
 \, with maximum marks\, on e-Business in the digital age at the London Sch
 ool of Economics and Political Sciences. He was visiting PhD student at th
 e Department of Physiology of University of Gothenburg.\nHe has a growing 
 track record in integrating biorobotics and neuroscience\, and in this fie
 ld he is authoring high-impact publications (Science Translational Medicin
 e\, IEEE Transactions on Robotics\, PLOS One\, Sensors and Actuators A). H
 e has a H-index of 8 (source: Scholar). He has one PCT application (all cl
 aims accepted in the National phase) and one Italian patent application.\n
 At SSSA he holds courses for undergraduate (FPGA logics) and PhD (Neuromor
 phic engineering and tactile sensing) students\, and he is scientific resp
 onsible of the BioRobotics section of the 2013 and 2014 editions of the se
 cond level master “Smart Solutions–Smart Communities” funded by Tele
 com Italia company (www.sssup.it/sssc). He gave invited lectures in leadin
 g Universities such as Lund University (Lund)\, Université Pierre et Mari
 e Curie (Paris)\, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (Tries
 te)\, Politecnico di Torino (Torino).\nHe has a growing portfolio of succe
 ssful research grants and he is WP leader within EU-FP7 (Nanobiotouch\, Ne
 bias) and National (HandBot PRIN\, Intelligent Factory National Cluster\, 
 Parloma Smart Cities and Social Innovation call) projects. He is the recip
 ient of the Working Capital grant with the SensAlone project\, funded by T
 elecom Italia company (30 grants\, 2133 applicants). So far\, 31 years old
 \, he had scientific responsibility over 1\,023 M€ research funds secure
 d after application to competitive calls.\nAfter the PhD graduation he ser
 ved for two years as chief assistant\, jointly with Dr. Nicola Vitiello\, 
 of the Coordinator – Prof. Paolo Dario – of the FET Flagship Candidate
  RoboCom\, and in this quality he gained management skills and also repres
 ented the Coordinator in high-level meetings with EC Officers and with mem
 bers of the other FET-F pilot actions.\nHe regularly serves as a reviewer 
 for international conferences in the field of bioengineering and bioroboti
 cs\, and for 14 international scientific journals. He is review editor of 
 Frontiers in Neurorobotics journal\, he was program committee member of th
 e 2013 and 2014 editions of the International Congress on Neurotechnology\
 , Electronics and Informatics (NEUROTECHNIX)\, and of the Towards Autonomo
 us Robotic Systems (TAROS) 2013 and 2014 conferences. He is member of the 
 editorial board of the Automazione Integrata Italian industrial magazine.\
 nIn 2006 he was awarded by the SSSA Alumni Association with the BioRobotic
 s prize for his Bachelor thesis\, in 2009 he was finalist for the Best Stu
 dent Paper Award at the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics\, and 
 in 2012 he was finalist in the “Georges Giralt PhD Award”\, the most i
 mportant European PhD award in robotics\, organized by EURON\, the “EUro
 pean RObotics research Network”.\nHis research interests are in the bioe
 ngineering and biorobotics field\, with a particular focus on the neuro-ro
 botics area (http://sssa.bioroboticsinstitute.it/research/neurorobotics): 
 specific research topics include cybernetic prostheses and biomechatronic 
 systems\, tactile sensing and artificial skin\, human touch neurophysiolog
 y\, neuromorphic engineering\, safe human machine integration in the workp
 lace. For research interests and personal sensibility he attentively follo
 ws the technological advancements in the field of renewable energies and g
 reen economy as well.\nA neuro-robotic approach has been systematically pu
 rsued during a long-term research strand at The BioRobotics Institute of S
 cuola Superiore Sant’Anna in order to endow a generation of robotic hand
  prostheses with an artificial sense of touch. Our ambition is the restora
 tion of natural tactile sensation and perception in upper-limb amputees.\n
 The lecture will introduce selected case-studies representing the mileston
 es towards the targeted objective\, requiring the exploration of an unders
 tanding-generation loop by means of a close integration between neuroscien
 ce and robotics. This pathway was predicated through three main research a
 ctions.\nFirst\, the development of tools enabling neuroscientific measure
 ments and analyses on the human somatosensory system\, such as mechatronic
  tactile stimulators suitable for electrophysiological recordings and for 
 behavioural studies with psychophysical methods.\nSecond\, the development
  of a biomimetic artificial touch technology that codes tactile informatio
 n in a neuromorphic fashion\, i.e. with sequences of spikes\, and its inte
 gration in the distal phalanx of underactuated robotic hands\, so to allow
  its experimental assessment under both passive-touch and active-touch mot
 ion control strategies and to evaluate neuroscientific hypotheses on the h
 uman somatosensory system.\nThird\, the porting of the developed artificia
 l tactile sensing technology to the afferent pathways of the amputee.
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