Development of exoskeletal robotic limbs for a rat controlled by neural signals based on a vehicular neuro-robotic platform RatCar.
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.
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Osamu
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Fukayama
Hiroshi
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Otsuka
Ryuta
R
Hashimoto
Takafumi
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Suzuki
Kunihiko
K
Mabuchi
D000818:Animals; D002138:Calibration; D004566:Electrodes; D005121:Extremities / Q000294:innervation / Q000502:physiology*; D008124:Locomotion / Q000502:physiology; D009424:Nervous System Physiological Phenomena; D010805:Physical Conditioning, Animal; D051381:Rats; D012371:Robotics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012584:Sciatic Nerve / Q000502:physiology; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted