RESEARCH PROJECTS

It is known that the gait impairments associated with Parkinson disease are alleviated by auditory cueing.  Our ambition is to maximize these benefits with adaptive stimulations. Our application combines the pleasurable experience of listening to music with a reeducation program of gait which can be conducted in ecological conditions.

Objective :

BeatPark consists in remote sensors capturing patients’ footsteps, wirelessly connected to the smartphone running the application. An algorithm, developed and tested in the lab during the European FP7 project BeatHelath, controls the occurrence of musical beats respected to foot landing. Our theoretical approach relies on the modelling of the locomotor system as an oscillator whose the entrainability depends on its intrinsic properties (Damm et al., 2019). BeatPark architecture embeds the specificities of biological oscillators and ensures an optimal coupling between the musical beats and the patient’s steps (Dotov et al., 2019).

Clinical sciences: 

The study aims to determine the added value of combining high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation (HD-tDCS) in a rehabilitation program based on virtual reality therapy (VRT) to potentiate the effects on neuroplasticity and further improve functional recovery of the arm in chronic stroke patients

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Brain sciences:

The study aims to understand use dependant brain plasticity in people with stroke, both in terms of frequencies of cortical waves measured in functional EEG and in terms of activations of cortical regions measured in functional NIRS.

In sport, these measurements reveal specific biomechanical constraints, and are the golden standard tool for the understanding of injury mechanisms and performance factors. Motion capture systems are currently based on fixed cameras whose multiple viewing angles allow the position of markers to be reconstructed in 3 dimensions.

Objective

The MOVCAP project aims to develop a mobile sports motion capture system embarked on a flying drone. The combination of high precision optical measurement with a mobile system slaved to the athlete’s position will allow unprecedented acquisition of kinematic data under ecological conditions, that is to say free from the physical constraints of the laboratory. This robotic tool will push back the current limits of motion capture by providing continuous, reliable and reproducible measurement of the kinematics of sporting gestures.