Advanced Robotics for Effective Stroke Rehabilitation Treatment in Home Environment

Distinguished Research Seminar Series

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Date

26 Sep 2023
Organiser

Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, PolyU
Time

16:00 - 17:30
Venue

Online via Zoom

Speaker

Prof. Shane Xie

Remarks

Meeting link will be sent to successful registrants

Summary

Stroke and neurological diseases have a significant impact on our society, this talk will discuss the key societal challenges, robotic technologies for delivering effective care and opportunities for the healthcare industry. The keynote will cover the recent development of robotics for stroke rehabilitation, the research gaps and the need for new technologies in neuroscience, robotics and artificial intelligence. The talk will introduce an EPSRC-funded project on intelligent reconfigurable exoskeletons tailored to meet patients’ needs, deliver effective diagnosis and personalised treatment, and be monitored remotely by rehabilitation therapists. The talk will also briefly introduce the Leeds Centre for Assistive/Rehabilitation Robotics and our work on pneumatic Peano muscle, DEA, soft exoskeleton, bilateral robot, neuromuscular and brain-computer interfaces. The focus is on enabling technologies for those whose strength and coordination have been affected by amputation, stroke, spinal cord injury, cerebral palsy and ageing.

Keynote Speaker

Prof. Shane Xie

Professor, Chair of Robotics and Autonomous Systems
School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering
University of Leeds, UK

Prof Shane (Sheng Q) Xie, Ph.D., FEngNZ, FIMechE, FASME, is the Chair of Robotics and Autonomous Systems and Director of the Rehabilitation Robotics Lab at the University of Leeds since 2017, and he was the Director of the Rehabilitation and Medical Robotics Centre at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has >28 years of research experience in healthcare robotics and exoskeletons. He has published > 400 refereed papers and 8 books in rehabilitation exoskeleton design and control, neuromuscular modelling, and advanced human-robot interaction. He has supervised >20 postdocs, 75 PhDs and 80 MEs in his team with funding of >£27M from five countries. His team has invented three award-winning rehabilitation exoskeletons. He is an expert in control of exoskeletons, i.e. impedance control, adaptive control, sliding mode control, and iterative learning control strategies. He has received many distinguished awards including the David Bensted Fellowship Award and the AMP Invention Award. He is an elected Fellow of Engineering New Zealand, Fellow of IMechE and Fellow of ASME. He was the Technical Editor for IEEE/ASME Transaction on Mechatronics and the Associate Editor for Mechatronics Elsevier.