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Published on: August 30, 2020
Development of exoskeletal robotic limbs for a rat controlled by neural signals based on a vehicular neuro-robotic
Osamu Fukayama1, Hiroshi Otsuka, Ryuta Hashimoto
1Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Abstract:
A pair of exoskeletal limbs for a rat has been developed based on a vehicular Brain-Machine Interface "Rat-Car". The "RatCar" is a whole-body motor prosthesis system for a rat developed by the authors, estimating locomotion velocity according to neural signals pattern to move the rat body by the vehicle instead of its original limbs. In this paper, exoskeletal limbs have displaced the wheels for more natural modality of body control. The system was tested by applying peripheral nerve signals from a behaving rat.
