Publications by Etienne Burdet

Development and Comparison of Foot Interfaces for Controlling a Robotic Arm in Surgery

Hannes Bleuler, Mohamed Bouri, Etienne Burdet, Elahe Abdi

Currently available foot interfaces to command an external assistive robotic arm for laparoscopic surgery typically consist of a couple of push buttons placed on a planar platform. In this paper, we develop and compare two foot interfaces implementing isot ...

IEEE2018

Effects of a neuromuscular controller on a powered ankle exoskeleton during human walking

Auke Ijspeert, Arash Arami, Florin Dzeladini, Etienne Burdet, Amy Roning Wu, Daniel Renjewski

Wearable devices to assist abnormal gaits require controllers that interact with the user in an intuitive and unobtrusive manner. To design such a controller, we investigated a bio-inspired walking controller for orthoses and prostheses. We present (i) a S ...

Ieee2016

In a demanding task, three-handed manipulation is preferred to two-handed manipulation

Hannes Bleuler, Mohamed Bouri, Etienne Burdet, Elahe Abdi

Equipped with a third hand under their direct control, surgeons may be able to perform certain surgical interventions alone; this would reduce the need for a human assistant and related coordination difficulties. However, does human performance improve wit ...

Nature Research2016

A Neuromuscular Model for Symbiotic Man-Machine Exoskeleton Control Accounting for Patient Impairment Specificity

Auke Ijspeert, Florin Dzeladini, Etienne Burdet

Millions of people worldwide live with impaired locomotion. The degree of impairment is highly variable and the causes are multiple. This variation necessitates the design of a new generation of exoskeleton controllers for personalised, symbiotic man-machi ...

2014

Supplementary motor area and anterior intraparietal area integrate fine-graded timing and force control during precision grip

Roger Gassert, Dominique Chapuis, Etienne Burdet

We investigated the neuronal processing of the physiologically particularly important precision grip (opposition of index finger and thumb) by the combination of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and an MR-compatible haptic interface. Ten health ...

Wiley-Blackwell2009

A hybrid ultrasonic motor and electrorheological fluid clutch actuator for force-feedback in MRI/fMRI

Hannes Bleuler, Roger Gassert, Dominique Chapuis, Etienne Burdet

This paper presents a safe, electrically powered MR-compatible actuator with a large range of output impedance, which can be used at the entry of the scanner bore. This actuator is composed of an ultrasonic motor (USM) and a torque-controlled electrorheolo ...

2008

HandCARE: a cable-actuated rehabilitation system to train hand function after stroke

Thomas Maeder, Roger Gassert, Etienne Burdet, Olivier Lambercy, Ludovic Dovat

We have developed a robotic interface to train hand and ﬁnger function. HandCARE is a Cable-Actuated REhabilitation system, in which each ﬁnger is attached to an instrumented cable loop allowing force control and a predominantly linear displacement. The de ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2008

Development of a Microsurgery Training System

Hannes Bleuler, Etienne Burdet, Fei Wang

Surgeons require significant training to acquire sufficient dexterity and hand-eye coordination to manipulate objects skilfully under the microscope. This paper presents a computer-based real-time simulation of microsurgery as well as the hardware setup. I ...

IEEE2008

A Haptic Knob with a Hybrid Ultrasonic Motor and Powder Clutch Actuator

Hannes Bleuler, Roger Gassert, Etienne Burdet, Dominique Chapuis, Xavier Michel

In haptics, the forces to be displayed vary widely in terms of magnitude and bandwidth. A single actuator can hardly comply with these requirements. It has thus been proposed to combine electrical motors and passive devices in a hybrid actuator to cover a ...

2007

MRI/fMRI-Compatible Robotic System With Force Feedback for Interaction With Human Motion

Hannes Bleuler, Roger Gassert, Roland Moser, Etienne Burdet

This paper presents a robotic system that is compatible with anatomical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as well as with the more sensitive functional MRI (fMRI), and can safely and smoothly interact with humanmotion during the imaging. The system takes ad ...

2006