Publications by Silvestro Micera

An Ultrathin and Lightweight Soft Inflatable Actuator for Natural Tactile Sensory Feedback

The human sense of touch converts skin deformations into electrical impulses, enabling functional tasks such as object recognition and manipulation. Providing haptic information is crucial for improving usability in applications like prosthetics. Soft actu ...

Wiley2025

EPFL-Smart-Kitchen-30 Collected data

Silvestro Micera, Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Alexander Mathis, Solaiman Shokur, Mahdi Hamidi Rad

Understanding behavior requires datasets that capture humans while carrying out complex tasks. The kitchen is an excellent environment for assessing human motor and cognitive function, as many complex actions are naturally exhibited in kitchens from choppi ...

Zenodo2025

Emg Acquisition and Processing for Hand Movement Decoding on Embedded Systems: State of the Art and Challenges

Silvestro Micera

The electromyography (EMG) signal is particularly useful in monitoring muscle activity, and it can be acquired noninvasively on the skin surface. Thanks to these key characteristics, EMG-based human-machine interfaces (HMIs) for prosthetic myocontrol, as w ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2025

Design and Validation of a Tripping-Eliciting Platform Based on Compliant Random Obstacles

Silvestro Micera

Goal: The experimental study of the stumble phenomena is essential to develop novel technological solutions to limit harmful effects in at-risk populations. A versatile platform to deliver realistic and unanticipated tripping perturbations, controllable in ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2025

Body-Machine Interface for Continuous Control Using Trunk EMG and Motion

Silvestro Micera

Spinal cord injuries can result in substantial loss of trunk control, imposing significant challenges for affected individuals. Body-machine interfaces driven by trunk motion offer the potential for controlling assistive devices while promoting trunk rehab ...

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH2025

Preliminary Evaluation of a Soft Wearable Robot for Shoulder Movement Assistance

Silvestro Micera

Spinal cord injuries (SCI) often lead to upper limb impairment, necessitating innovative solutions for daily assistance beyond traditional rigid robotics due to their impractical weight and size. Despite still preliminary, soft wearables are arising as a p ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2025

A Soft Pneumatic Exosuit to Assist Pronosupination in Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury

Silvestro Micera

Forearm pronosupination is an essential movement for many activities of daily living as it complements hand manipulation. Despite being highly impaired in individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI), it is rarely assisted by wearable robots, likely due to th ...

2025

Biophysical characterization of the recording of unmyelinated and myelinated fiber activity with peripheral interfaces

Silvestro Micera, Simone Romeni

Unmyelinated fibers account for a remarkable fraction of the peripheral nervous system and their activity is linked to many autonomic and somatic functions. While electrical recording of such activity from human-sized peripheral nerves holds significant po ...

2025

EPFL-Smart-Kitchen-30 Annotations and Poses

Silvestro Micera, Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Alexander Mathis, Solaiman Shokur, Mahdi Hamidi Rad

Understanding behavior requires datasets that capture humans while carrying out complex tasks. The kitchen is an excellent environment for assessing human motor and cognitive function, as many complex actions are naturally exhibited in kitchens from choppi ...

Zenodo2025

Epidural electrical stimulation facilitates motor recovery in spinal cord injury involving the conus medullaris: A case study

Silvestro Micera, Simone Romeni

Background: Emerging research increasingly supports that epidural spinal cord electrical stimulation (EES) combined with neurorehabilitation can improve motor recovery in spinal cord injury (SCI) subjects. Patients with lesions involving the medullary cone ...

2025