Cristina Brambilla
National Research Council, Construction Technologies Institute
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6
Total Citations
49
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About
Cristina Brambilla is a leading researcher at the intersection of rehabilitation robotics, biomechanics, and human motor control. Her work focuses on understanding how the central nervous system coordinates movement through muscle and kinematic synergies, with direct applications to stroke rehabilitation, prosthetics, and human-robot interaction. Her most impactful contribution is a 2024 scoping review on muscle synergies in upper limb stroke rehabilitation (21 citations), which synthesizes evidence for synergy-based therapies to restore motor function. Brambilla has pioneered the concept of kinematic-muscular synergies, demonstrating how combined muscle and joint data can describe hand grasps and locomotion more holistically than traditional approaches. Her 2021 study on domain adaptation for myoelectric hand prostheses (9 citations) challenges conventional transfer learning methods, proposing more robust inter- and intra-subject control strategies. She has also contributed to industrial robotics safety through biomechanical analysis of upper-limb gestures under varying loads and velocities, and to exoskeleton transparency assessment. Her work, funded by EU projects like H2020 Mindbot, has garnered over 50 citations, establishing her as a key voice in synergistic motor control and assistive technology design.
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- 1Muscle synergies in upper limb stroke rehabilitation: a scoping review21 citations · 2024
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