Nicolas Garcia-Aracil and José Mª Sabater from Biomedical Neuroengineering group have published the paper: “Patient-Tailored Assistance: A New Concept of Assistive Robotic Device That Adapts to Individual Users” (see first page) in the September issue of IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION MAGAZINE (RAM). The Magazine (RAM) publishes technical articles of interest to the international robotics and automation community. The magazine has over 12,000 readers and is consistently ranked by Thompson’s Journal of Citation Reports (JCR) as one of the most highly ranked publication in both Robotics (#3) and Automation & Control (#8) categories, with an impact factor of 2.484. The magazine only publishes four issues per year: March, June, September and December.

The paper presents some of the results from an European project “MAAT: Multimodal interfaces to improve therApeutic outcomes in robot-Assisted rehabilitation”. The MAAT project aims at developing a new robotic system for the administration of highly sophisticated therapy for stroke patients in order to (i) maximize patient motivation and involvement in the therapy and (ii) continuously assess the progress of the recovery from a functional and neurological viewpoint, with special attention on the issue of safety in human-robot interaction. It is noticeable that Francisco J. Badesa’s and Ricardo Morales’ Thesis was developed during this european project and was presented at the beginning of this year.

Coauthors of this paper are researchers from Universita Campus Biomedico of Rome, members of MAAT consortium, and leaded by Eugenio Guglielmelli.