Publications by Leonardo Pollina

Decoding Lower Limb Motor Attempts from EEG Signals in a Spinal Cord Injury Patient with Epidural Electrical Implant

Silvestro Micera, Vincent Alexandre Mendez, Leonardo Pollina

Epidural electrical stimulation (EES) has been employed to restore motor functions in the lower limbs of patients with spinal cord injuries (SCIs). However, non-invasive methods for controlling this stimulation have not yet been explored. This study aims t ...

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH2024

Decoding bladder state from pudendal intraneural signals in pigs

Silvestro Micera, Stéphanie Lacour, Leonardo Pollina, Ivo Strauss, Valentina Marie Paggi

Neuroprosthetic devices used for the treatment of lower urinary tract dysfunction, such as incontinence or urinary retention, apply a pre-set continuous, open-loop stimulation paradigm, which can cause voiding dysfunctions due to neural adaptation. In the ...

2023

Human motor augmentation with an extra robotic arm without functional interference

Silvestro Micera, Solaiman Shokur, Leonardo Pollina, Giulia Dominijanni, Daniel Jose Lins Leal Pinheiro, Bastien Orset

Extra robotic arms (XRAs) are gaining interest in neuroscience and robotics, offering potential tools for daily activities. However, this compelling opportunity poses new challenges for sensorimotor control strategies and human-machine interfaces (HMIs). A ...

Amer Assoc Advancement Science2023

A lightweight learning-based decoding algorithm for intraneural vagus nerve activity classification in pigs

Silvestro Micera, Leonardo Pollina, Ivo Strauss

Objective. Bioelectronic medicine is an emerging field that aims at developing closed-loop neuromodulation protocols for the autonomic nervous system (ANS) to treat a wide range of disorders. When designing a closed-loop protocol for real time modulation o ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Deep Learning with Convolutional Neural Network for Proportional Control of Finger Movements from surface EMG Recordings

Silvestro Micera, Vincent Alexandre Mendez, Leonardo Pollina, Fiorenzo Artoni

The control of robotic prosthetic hands (RPHs) for upper limb amputees is far from optimal. Simultaneous and proportional finger control of a RPH based on EMG signals is still challenging. Based on EMG and kinematics recordings of subjects following a pre- ...

IEEE2021