Publications by Silvestro Micera

An Ultrathin and Lightweight Soft Inflatable Actuator for Natural Tactile Sensory Feedback

The human sense of touch converts skin deformations into electrical impulses, enabling functional tasks such as object recognition and manipulation. Providing haptic information is crucial for improving usability in applications like prosthetics. Soft actu ...

Wiley2025

EPFL-Smart-Kitchen-30 Collected data

Solaiman Shokur, Silvestro Micera, Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Mahdi Hamidi Rad, Alexander Mathis

Understanding behavior requires datasets that capture humans while carrying out complex tasks. The kitchen is an excellent environment for assessing human motor and cognitive function, as many complex actions are naturally exhibited in kitchens from choppi ...

Zenodo2025

Emg Acquisition and Processing for Hand Movement Decoding on Embedded Systems: State of the Art and Challenges

Silvestro Micera

The electromyography (EMG) signal is particularly useful in monitoring muscle activity, and it can be acquired noninvasively on the skin surface. Thanks to these key characteristics, EMG-based human-machine interfaces (HMIs) for prosthetic myocontrol, as w ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2025

Design and Validation of a Tripping-Eliciting Platform Based on Compliant Random Obstacles

Silvestro Micera

Goal: The experimental study of the stumble phenomena is essential to develop novel technological solutions to limit harmful effects in at-risk populations. A versatile platform to deliver realistic and unanticipated tripping perturbations, controllable in ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2025

Body-Machine Interface for Continuous Control Using Trunk EMG and Motion

Silvestro Micera

Spinal cord injuries can result in substantial loss of trunk control, imposing significant challenges for affected individuals. Body-machine interfaces driven by trunk motion offer the potential for controlling assistive devices while promoting trunk rehab ...

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH2025

Preliminary Evaluation of a Soft Wearable Robot for Shoulder Movement Assistance

Silvestro Micera

Spinal cord injuries (SCI) often lead to upper limb impairment, necessitating innovative solutions for daily assistance beyond traditional rigid robotics due to their impractical weight and size. Despite still preliminary, soft wearables are arising as a p ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2025

A Soft Pneumatic Exosuit to Assist Pronosupination in Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury

Silvestro Micera

Forearm pronosupination is an essential movement for many activities of daily living as it complements hand manipulation. Despite being highly impaired in individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI), it is rarely assisted by wearable robots, likely due to th ...

2025

Biophysical characterization of the recording of unmyelinated and myelinated fiber activity with peripheral interfaces

Silvestro Micera, Simone Romeni

Unmyelinated fibers account for a remarkable fraction of the peripheral nervous system and their activity is linked to many autonomic and somatic functions. While electrical recording of such activity from human-sized peripheral nerves holds significant po ...

2025

EPFL-Smart-Kitchen-30 Annotations and Poses

Solaiman Shokur, Silvestro Micera, Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Mahdi Hamidi Rad, Alexander Mathis

Understanding behavior requires datasets that capture humans while carrying out complex tasks. The kitchen is an excellent environment for assessing human motor and cognitive function, as many complex actions are naturally exhibited in kitchens from choppi ...

Zenodo2025

Epidural electrical stimulation facilitates motor recovery in spinal cord injury involving the conus medullaris: A case study

Silvestro Micera, Simone Romeni

Background: Emerging research increasingly supports that epidural spinal cord electrical stimulation (EES) combined with neurorehabilitation can improve motor recovery in spinal cord injury (SCI) subjects. Patients with lesions involving the medullary cone ...

2025

Characterization of Machine Learning-Based Surrogate Models of Neural Activation Under Electrical Stimulation

Silvestro Micera, Simone Romeni

Bioelectromagnetics published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Bioelectromagnetics Society.Electrical stimulation of peripheral nerves via implanted electrodes has been shown to be a promising approach to restore sensation, movement, and autonomic fun ...

2025

High-frequency epidural electrical stimulation reduces spasticity and facilitates walking recovery in patients with spinal cord injury

Silvestro Micera, Simone Romeni

Spinal cord injury (SCI) causes severe motor and sensory deficits, and there are currently no approved treatments for recovery. Nearly 70% of patients with SCI experience pathological muscle cocontraction and spasticity, accompanied by clinical signs such ...

AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE2025

Exploring Skill Generalization with an Extra Robotic Arm for Motor Augmentation

Solaiman Shokur, Silvestro Micera, Giulia Dominijanni

Recent research demonstrates that naïve users can be trained to perform complex motor tasks, including trimanual activities, using an extra robotic arm (XRA). While previous studies show task‐specific improvements with XRAs, it remains uncertain whether sk ...

Wiley2025

Neuroethology of natural actions in freely moving monkeys

Silvestro Micera

The current understanding of primate natural action organization derives from laboratory experiments in restrained contexts (RCs) under the assumption that this knowledge generalizes to freely moving contexts (FMCs). In this work, we developed a neurobehav ...

2025

Kinematic Similarity of Overground and Self-paced Omnidirectional Treadmill Walking in Healthy and Parkinsonian Subjects

Silvestro Micera, Simone Romeni

The use of self-paced omnidirectional treadmills equipped with body weight support and virtual reality environments in the clinical practice may allow the training of walking in safe and repeatable conditions across different pathologies. One premise for t ...

Springer Nature2025

Optimization frameworks for bespoke sensory encoding in neuroprosthetics

Solaiman Shokur, Silvestro Micera

Restoring natural sensation via neuroprosthetics relies on the possibility of encoding complex and nuanced information. For example, an ideal brain–machine interface with sensory feedback would provide the user with sensation about movement, pressure, curv ...

AIP Publishing2025

Automated Selectivity-Driven Algorithm for Transcutaneous Spinal Cord Stimulation

Mohamed Bouri, Solaiman Shokur, Silvestro Micera, Mouhamed Zorkot

Spinal cord injury (SCI) impairs motor function and quality of life. Transcutaneous Spinal Cord Stimulation (tSCS) is a non-invasive method to restore motor function by activating spinal circuits below the lesion. However, its effectiveness is limited by i ...

IEEE2025

Brain Oscillatory Modes as a Proxy of Stroke Recovery

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Olaf Blanke, Philip Egger, Sylvain Jean-François Harquel, Silvestro Micera, Nathalie Heidi Meyer, Elena Beanato, Julia Brügger, Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Takuya Morishita, Maximilian Jonas Wessel, Philipp Johannes Koch, Giorgia Giulia Evangelista, Andéol Geoffroy Cadic-Melchior, Pauline Menoud, Lisa Aïcha Mireille Julie Fleury

Background Stroke is the leading cause of long-term disability, making the search for successful rehabilitation treatment one of the most important public health issues. A better understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying impairment and recovery is ...

SAGE Publications2025

The Effect of User Learning for Online Eeg Decoding of Upper-limb Movement Intention

Silvestro Micera

Electroencephalography (EEG) based brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) offer a promising way for individuals with motor impairments to control prosthetic or rehabilitation devices. Accurately decoding movement intention (MI) is crucial for translating subject ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2025

Author Correction: Bringing sensation to prosthetic hands-chronic assessment of implanted thin-film electrodes in humans (vol 7, 51, 2023)

Silvestro Micera, Stanisa Raspopovic, Francesco Maria Petrini, Ivo Strauss, Giacomo Valle

2024