Institute of Mechanics

Theme 1

BIOMECHANICS, MOTION CONTROL AND TECHNICALLY ASSISTED REHABILITATION

 

 

Project team:

Staff	room	phone: (+359 2)	e-mail
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Petko Kiriazov Kiriazov (PI)	408	979 6467	kiriazov@imbm.bas.bg
Assist. Prof. Gergana Stefanova Nikolova	104	979 6378	gergana@imbm.bas.bg
Assist. Prof. Stefan Borisov Karastanev	432	979 6485	stefan@imbm.bas.bg
Res. Fellow Michaela Lubimova Kalaidjieva	120	979 6409	michaela@imbm.bas.bg
MSc. Eng. Radosvata Antonova	410	979 6468	radosveta@imbm.bas.bg
Nikolay Zlatov (University of Cardiff - UK)
PhD Students
Dessislava Samuilova Despotova	208	979 6427	despotova85@imbm.bas.bg

 

People with movement disorders due to traumas, amputation, or neurological diseases need efficient and effective rehabilitation. At first, patients have to be provided with possibly the best, but affordable in price, technically assistive devices. Second, the rehabilitation therapies have to optimally restore their physical and neuropsychological state. In general, it means defining and solving challenging optimization problems that may have various formulations with various practical cases. For that, it is indispensable to develop and apply efficient approaches based on new scientific concepts and underlying principles from biomechanics, robotics, neurophysiology, optimal control theory, and motor learning. The research and development in the proposed project have the following directions:

1. Applying 16-segment, 3D mathematical model of human body for the purposes of motion control, rehabilitation, and optimization (in sport)

2. Developing laboratory models of orthoses and other technically assistive devices for upper and lower limbs

3. Gait analysis and recommendations for efficient physical and neurological rehabilitation of people with various movement disorders

 

 

Partial financial support from Project EUCogII: 2nd European Network for the Advancement of Artificial Cognitive Systems, Interaction and Robotics (Feb. 2009 - Jan. 2012)

http://www.eucognition.org/index.php?page=contact-information

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Institute of Mechanics tel.: +359 2 973 31 40; fax: +359 2 870 74 98; e-mail: office@imbm.bas.bg