A biennial recognition from the National Bioengineering Group for work on hand prostheses
July 2, 2016 - Emiliano Noce, born in 1987, PhD student UCBM in the second year of the PhD School in Bioengineering and Biosciences, he was awarded the Young Researchers Award by the National Group of Bioengineering. The acknowledgment was assigned to him in a competition dedicated to scientists born after 1984 and organized on the occasion of the V Congress of Italian bioengineers. The PhD student's work was selected during the congress that took place at the Federico II University of Naples from 20 to 22 June.
In front of a large audience of Italian bioengineers, a particularly active scientific community involved in the international research context, Emiliano Noce presented the article co-signed by Loredana Zollo (Biomedical Robotics and Biomicrosystems Research Unit UCBM), gives Rinaldo Sacchetti e Angelo Davalli of the INAIL Prosthetic Center in Vigorso di Budrio and from Eugenio Guglielmelli (Biomedical Robotics and Biomicrosystems Research Unit UCBM). A work that therefore also sees the involvement of Inail, a strategic partner of UCBM in bionic hand research.
The article that allowed Emiliano Noce to earn the prestigious recognition of the National Group of Bioengineers presents a study on the neural control of hand prostheses, the flagship of the research of the Biomedical Robotics and Biomicrosystems Unit UCBM. Objective of the work, to find a mathematical relationship between the neural and muscle signals recorded by the residual nerves and muscles of an amputee during the control of an upper limb prosthesis. An investigation that will make it possible to exploit the intraneural electrodes both for the return of the tactile sensation to the amputee and for the real-time neural control of the hand prosthesis.
