title: Proceedings of the first workshop on Peripheral Machine Interfaces: going beyond traditional surface electromyography.
abstract: One of the hottest topics in rehabilitation robotics is that of proper control of prosthetic devices. Despite decades of research, the state of the art is dramatically behind the expectations. To shed light on this issue, in June, 2013 the first international workshop on Present and future of non-invasive peripheral nervous system (PNS)-Machine Interfaces (MI; PMI) was convened, hosted by the International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics. The keyword PMI has been selected to denote human-machine interfaces targeted at the limb-deficient, mainly upper-limb amputees, dealing with signals gathered from the PNS in a non-invasive way, that is, from the surface of the residuum. The workshop was intended to provide an overview of the state of the art and future perspectives of such interfaces; this paper represents is a collection of opinions expressed by each and every researcher/group involved in it.
authors.affiliation: Robotics and Mechatronics Center, German Aerospace Center Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany.
authors.forename: Claudio
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Castellini
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Arizona State University Tempe, AZ, USA.
authors.forename: Panagiotis
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Artemiadis
authors.affiliation: Prosthetics and Orthotics Program, Rehabilitation Computronics Laboratory, University of Hartford West Hartford, CT, USA ; VA Cooperative Studies Program, Department of Veterans Affairs West Haven, CT, USA.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wininger
authors.affiliation: Department of Advanced Robotics, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia Genoa, Italy ; The Centro di Ricerca "E. Piaggio," Università di Pisa Pisa, Italy.
authors.forename: Arash
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ajoudani
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Heidelberg University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany.
authors.forename: Merkur
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Alimusaj
authors.affiliation: Department of Advanced Robotics, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia Genoa, Italy ; The Centro di Ricerca "E. Piaggio," Università di Pisa Pisa, Italy.
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bicchi
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering, University of Rome La Sapienza Rome, Italy ; Idiap Research Institute Martigny, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Caputo
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers University Piscataway, NJ, USA.
authors.forename: William
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Craelius
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurorehabilitation Engineering, University Medical Center, Georg-August-University Goettingen, Germany.
authors.forename: Strahinja
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dosen
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of New Brunswick Fredericton, NB, Canada.
authors.forename: Kevin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Englehart
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurorehabilitation Engineering, University Medical Center, Georg-August-University Goettingen, Germany.
authors.forename: Dario
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Farina
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering, University of Rome La Sapienza Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Arjan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gijsberts
authors.affiliation: Department of Advanced Robotics, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia Genoa, Italy.
authors.forename: Sasha B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Godfrey
authors.affiliation: Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Northwestern University Chicago, IL, USA.
authors.forename: Levi
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hargrove
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Arizona State University Tempe, AZ, USA.
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ison
authors.affiliation: Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Northwestern University Chicago, IL, USA.
authors.forename: Todd
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kuiken
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurorehabilitation Engineering, University Medical Center, Georg-August-University Goettingen, Germany.
authors.forename: Marko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Marković
authors.affiliation: Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta Edmonton, AB, Canada.
authors.forename: Patrick M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Pilarski
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Heidelberg University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany.
authors.forename: Rüdiger
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rupp
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of New Brunswick Fredericton, NB, Canada.
authors.forename: Erik
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Scheme
keywords: EMG; human–machine interfaces; prosthetic control; prosthetics; rehabilitation robotics