Asterics, a FP7 project to develop assistive technologies
Starlab has joined the AsTeRICS consortium. AsTeRICS is a project aiming to develop a support platform that will facilitate and improve communication resources of people with motor disabilities in their upper limbs.
The project, which started on January 1st, is financially supported by the Seventh Framework Programme for Research of the European Commission and will be carried out by a consortium of nine leading groups and companies coming from eight countries in Europe. The budget for this three year project, is over 3.3 Million €.
The goal of AsTeRICS is to develop a construction set for assistive technologies which can be adapted to the motor abilities of the end-users, technologies that will allow the access to different devices like PCs, cell phones and smart home devices, all of them integrated in a platform adapted as much as possible to each user.
Starlab will contribute to AsTeRICS mainly by integrating acquisition and communication capabilities of wireless recording unit Enobio within Assistive Technology applications. We will improve the existent software toolkit for the completion of real-world BCI based on machine learning and computational intelligence techniques.
