Publications by Camilla Pierella

A multimodal approach to capture post-stroke temporal dynamics of recovery

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Silvestro Micera, Jenifer Cléa Miehlbradt, Nawal Noëlle Kinany, Elvira Pirondini, Martina Coscia, Christian Giang, Camilla Pierella

Objective.Several training programs have been developed in the past to restore motor functions after stroke. Their efficacy strongly relies on the possibility to assess individual levels of impairment and recovery rate. However, commonly used clinical scal ...

2020

A hybrid Body-Machine Interface integrating signals from muscles and motions

Camilla Pierella

Objective.Body-Machine Interfaces (BoMIs) establish a way to operate a variety of devices, allowing their users to extend the limits of their motor abilities by exploiting the redundancy of muscles and motions that remain available after spinal cord injury ...

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Motor improvement estimation and task adaptation for personalized robot-aided therapy: a feasibility study

Silvestro Micera, Jenifer Cléa Miehlbradt, Nawal Noëlle Kinany, Elvira Pirondini, Camilla Pierella, Martina Coscia, Christian Giang

Background In the past years, robotic systems have become increasingly popular in upper limb rehabilitation. Nevertheless, clinical studies have so far not been able to confirm superior efficacy of robotic therapy over conventional methods. The personaliza ...

2020

The dynamics of motor learning through the formation of internal models

Camilla Pierella

A medical student learning to perform a laparoscopic procedure or a recently paralyzed user of a powered wheelchair must learn to operate machinery via interfaces that translate their actions into commands for an external device. Since the user’s actions a ...

2019

System for personalized robotic therapy and related methods

Silvestro Micera, Nawal Noëlle Kinany, Elvira Pirondini, Christian Giang, Camilla Pierella

The present invention provides an apparatus and a method able to estimate motor improvement in real-time during three-dimensional rehabilitation tasks and to consequently dynamically personalize the therapy.The method can be carried out by a computer progr ...

2019

Motor Intention Decoding During Active and Robot-Assisted Reaching

Silvestro Micera, Fiorenzo Artoni, Elvira Pirondini, Martina Coscia, Camilla Pierella, Aldo Pastore

2018