The story of the SYSIASS project in 7 chapters

1SYSIASS Closing Conference – June 17th 2014

The story of the SYSIASS project in 7 chapters

Annemarie KokosySYSIASS Project Manager

Head of the Service Robotics TeamISEN-Lille, France

2SYSIASS Closing Conference June 17th 2014

CHAPTER 1: IDEA’S GENESIS

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Idea’s Genesis

• 2008 – Team of Service Robotics – ISEN-Lille

• Competences: autonomous navigation of mobile robots and team of mobile robots • Work in collaboration with SyNeR Team, LAGIS, UMR CNRS 8219

Find an usefull application for the society

Smart wheelchair


The genesis of the project

• 2008 – Lille Catholic University

• Stimulate and support interdisciplinary projects• University’s cluster “Disability, Dependence and Civil Action”

(Handicap dépendance et citoyenneté)

Dr. Cécile DonzéHead of Medical Physics and RehabilitationGHICL, Hospital St Philibert, Lomme

The autonomous powered wheelchair should open a new generation of services for disabled people


Importance of assistive technologies in France

• 2008 – Some figures (French parliamentary report Poletti, 2008)

• 1,8 million people use a wheelchair at home • 1,4 million people have a motor impairment associated with other disabilities • 5,4 millions people use assistive technologies

– Including 5 million people who use it at home • Assistive technologies

– Human-Machine Interfaces for communication– Assistive Domotics

• There are around 150 models of powered wheelchair • Price between 2 700 € and 30 000 €.


Bench-to-Lifeside

• 2008 – Two major questions

• Smart wheelchair will not only be a «robotic bench»?– Best research strategy ?– Best partnership ?

• How can this project be funded? – Institutions– Companies– Europe


Research Strategy• The user in the center of the development process

Science

Medical

Ethic

Prototypes clinically tested


CHAPTER 2: THE BIRTH OF SYSIASS


A solid partnership

• Former Interreg III A project: ACOS– ISEN-Lille

• Ecole Centrale de Lille & CNRS• Groupe Hospitalier Institut Catholique de Lille (GHICL)

– University of Kent • University of Essex• East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust (EKHUFT)

Gareth Howells

Matthew Pepper Dr. Mohamed SakelClinical Scientist Director of NeuroRehabilitation

Director of R&D EKHUFTProf. Huosheng HuHead of Robotic Team

Prof. Klaus McDonald-MaierHead of Embedded

& Intelligent Systems Research

Dr. Cécile DonzéHead Med. Physics & Rehab.GHICL, Hosp. St Philibert

Thierry FloquetLAGIS UMR CNRS


• Period: 1/12/2010 – 30/06/2014

• Partners – Academic: ISEN, Ecole Centrale de Lille/LAGIS (CNRS), University of Kent,

University of Essex– Hospitals: Groupe Hospitalier de l’Institut Catholique de Lille (GHICL), East Kent

Hospitals• Collaborators

– INRIA Nord-Europe, NON-A Team• Budget

– 2,46M€ , 50% ERDF (Interreg IVA 2 Seas)– Additional support funding: Thales, Fondation Norbert Ségard, Lille Catholic

University, Société Générale

SYSIASS Key Information


Reconciling disability and independence

NavigationAssistance

Secure wireless communication

Human-machineinterface

Home Hospital

Company

• Improving people’s mobility

• Facilitating user’s professional life integration

• Evolving with user’s needs


Project Challenges

• Human challenges – Nature of help needed – Needs for safe navigation – Acceptance

• Technical challenges – Connection to commercial powered wheelchairs – Ensure safe navigation – Ensure personalized and adaptive assistance – Provide low cost solutions


Network of stakeholders

• Networks for disabled people support– Fondation de Garches: Bruno Guillon– CRNT-APF: Thierry Danigo– Kent Brain Injury Forum: Tanesh Bhugobaun– Centre Jacques Calvé de Berck sur Mer: Axelle Baillet et Stéphane

Bouilland– Centre Hélène Borel: Capucine Fauquembergue – Foyer Médicalisé d’Accueil La vie devant soi: Elsa Bourdeaud’hui, Lucie

Malapel, Thierry Piloquet, Audrey Ricouart

• Industrial support– DynamicControls


CHAPTER 3: SYSIASS RESULTS


DEVICES FOR ASSISTED NAVIGATION

• Questionnaire to know the user’s needs 252 answers (November 2011 – May 2012)

• Definition of 3 scenariosScenario 1: Safe navigation

The intelligent device doesn’t correct the trajectory

Scenario 2: Semi-autonomous assisted navigation The user drives the powered wheelchair The intelligent device avoids obstacles and go through

doorways with the user action on the loop

Scenario 3: Autonomous navigation


Device for a safe navigation

• DupontMedical with DynamicControls System• Tested by 32 people including 23 disabled people

– Clinical testes to the Hospital of Garches – Other tests in the LivingLab Humanicité

• Centre Hélène Borel• FAM La vie devant Soi


Device for semi-autonomousassisted navigation

• 3 versions: Invacare with DynamicControls System

Tested by 23 healthy people Ethical approval obtained in May 2014 clinical trials to be conducted during summer in

EKHUFT


Device forautonomous navigation

• Localization, path planning and control algorithms

• Navigation Packages in ROS • Implementation

mobile robot wheelchair


HANDS-FREE DEVICESFOR WHEELCHAIR DRIVING

• Visual Head Gesture• Facial Expression & Head Movement

• Wireless IMU in a Baseball Cap• Wireless Voice based Control

Invacare Harrier with DynamicControls System

Tested by over 50 people including some disabled people


HANDS-FREE DEVICESFOR WHEELCHAIR DRIVING

• Minimally Invasive Intra-Oral Palate Control Device

• Tongue controlled RFID tag

• Strain gauge RFID tag to sense the stretch on skin (neck/eyebrow movement)


SECURE COMMUNICATION DEVICE

• Use of ICmetric System Uniquely identifying a particular circuit• Guarantees its identity and integrity• Ensures it has not been tampered with or modified

Generating asymmetric encryption keys based on properties of a circuit• Allows secure data to be sent to the device• Creates ICsignatures, guaranteeing the source of given data


CHAPTER 4: CROSS BORDER COOPERATION


Work Meetings• 17 meetings– Quarterly meetings– Steering Committee meetings


Workshops• 10 workshops

– 2 days: 1 at ISEN, 1 at University of Essex, 1 at University of Kent– 4-5 days: 7 at University of Kent


Communication events• Annual Interreg IV A 2 Seas Event, Rotterdam March 2013• Press conference, November 2013• Organisation of two invited sessions on International

Conferences• Joint publications


CHAPTER 5: PROJECT COMMUNICATION


Project communication

• Scientific publications– 9 International journals– 43 International conferences– 5 invited talks

• General public– 30 articles in local press (La Voix du Nord, La Croix du Nord), or

national press (Prima, Hacavie, Faire face, Panorama du medecin, handicapsinfos.com, …)

– 3 Radio broadcasts (VivreFM and Radio France Bleu)– 5 TV broadcasts ( France 3, F3 Nord Pas de Calais Matin, …)– 8 Exhibitions

• Website www.sysiass.eu - Over 5000 viewing sessions (58% France, 26% USA, 7% UK,…)

http://www.sysiass.eu/


CHAPTER 6: PEOPLE INVOLVED


People Involved

• About 30 people involved on the project• 10 different nationalities represented• 12 functions (researchers, engineers, PhD

student, physicians, clinical scientists, occupational therapists, psychologists, financial officer …)

• 12 People hired for one year or more • Several MsC students involved for 3 to 6 months • 3 PhD defenses


CHAPTER 7: CONCLUSION


CONCLUSION

France 3, November 8th 2013

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SYSIASS is the fruit of the enthusiasm of the people involved. TOGETHER we pushed SYSIASS from a technological integration to a lifeside reality!

The story of the SYSIASS project in 7 chapters

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