Robotic Orthosis for Assisting Physical Rehabilitation

Dr. Chairez is a Biomedical Engineer from the National Polytechnic Institute and a Doctor of Science with a Specialty in Automatic Control from the Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the IPN. He has experience in the production of technological equipment for medical devices, the development of medical robotic systems and automation technology solutions. The current central themes of his research revolve around: a) The development of new automatic control methodologies; b) The creation of new artificial intelligence methods applied to bioprocesses, biomedical engineering and microsystems and c) The implementation of instrumentation systems installed as central parts of new medical devices. He has supervised 19 doctoral theses, 33 master's theses and 12 bachelor's theses. He has published 190 scientific articles in peer-reviewed and indexed journals. David Cruz Ortiz obtained a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from the National Polytechnic Institute in June 2013, and the Advanced Technology Master’s Degree from the same institute in December 2015. He obtained his Ph.D. in Automatic Control Sciences from the Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute (CINVESTAV-IPN) in February 2020 at Mexico City. During his Ph.D. studies, he did a research internship in Lille, France, at the INRIA with professor Andrey Polyakov. He is currently an associate professor in the medical robotics and biosignal processing laboratory at the Interdisciplinary Professional Unit of Biotechnology (UPIBI-IPN). His research activities include teaching experience at the bachelor level with courses such as dynamic systems, digital systems, circuit analysis, digital signal and image processing, and medical instrumentation at UPIBI-IPN. As part of his academic activities, he has served as co-advisor of 7 bachelor thesis aside from 2 theses at the master level. Related to the development of scientific projects, he has served as co-investigator of five research projects and as the principal investigator of three more. David Cruz Ortiz has published 19 articles in JCR journals and more than 25 articles in national and international conferences in automatic control, robotic systems, and biomedical engineering. In addition, he served as a program chair member of the International Conference on Electrical Engineering, Computing Science and Automatic Control (CCE) in 2020. His main research interests include robust control and bilateral control theories and the design, construction, and control of bio-inspired robotic systems. Its areas of interest. Mariana Ballesteros. Mariana Ballesteros obtained the Advanced Technology Master’s Degree from the National Polytechnic Institute in January 2016 and the Ph.D. in Automatic Control Science from the Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute (CINVESTAV-IPN), in February 2020, both in Mexico City. During her Ph.D. studies, she did a research internship in Lille, France, at the INRIA with professors Andrey Polyakov and Denis Efimov. She is currently an associate professor in the Interdisciplinary Professional Unit of Biotechnology (UPIBI-IPN) and the Center for Innovation and Technological Development in Computing (CIDETEC IPN). Her main research interests include theory for robust control, optimal control, system identification, neural networks for control, approximation, and identification, in the area of automatic control; biomedical devices development, and medical robotics, as well as the analysis and processing of biosignals within the field of biomedical engineering. Mariana Ballesteros is currently working in the UPIBI-IPN Medical and Biosignals Robotics Laboratory, where the research is related to applying automatic control and computer sciences techniques toward the development of medical technology. Additionally, she teaches dynamic systems, biosignals and images, digital processing, sensors and interfaces, and bioinstrumentation courses in bachelor. She has co-directed the thesis of eight bachelor’s students and two master’s theses in the IPN. Mariana Ballesteros has 18 publications in international conferences and 17 articles in JCR journals. Ivan Salgado received the Biomedical Engineering Degree from the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), Mexico City, Mexico, in 2009, the master’s degree in automatic control from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, Mexico City, in 2011, and the Ph.D. degree in computer sciences from Centro de Investigación en Computación-IPN. His current research interests include the design, control, and optimization of robotic systems and adaptive control. His research activities include teaching experience in the bachelor’s and postgraduate courses such as linear and nonlinear control, digital systems, circuit analysis, digital signal and image processing at UPIBI-IPN and CIDETEC-IPN. Iván Salgado has published more than 20 articles in JCR journals and more than 30 articles in national and international conferences in automatic control, robotic systems, and biomedical engineering.

1. Introduction on medical rehabilitation
2. Orthosis applications in medical rehabilitation
3. Mechanical fundamental and design of the active orthosis
4. Electrical, electronic, and digital instrumentation of active orthosis
5. Automatic control design of the active orthosis
6. Artificial intelligence applications on active orthosis development
7. Clinical evaluations of active orthosis: protocols, testing, and validation
8. Active orthosis for medical rehabilitation of lower limbs
9. Active orthosis for medical rehabilitation of upper limbs
10. Active orthosis for medical rehabilitation of chest and back
11. Active orthosis for medical rehabilitation of neck
12. Ethical, medical, and legal implications of active orthosis
13. Cyberphysical systems interpretation of active orthoses