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Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) is a procedure where an electrical current is applied to peripheral nerves that control specific muscles or muscle groups. This action can be used to restore or improve function. Generally FES is used for exercise and for rehabilitation.
FreeWheels project is a scientific and technological collaboration towards an instrumented trike solution to allow a spinal cord injured individual to practice outdoor FES assisted cycling.
Numerous health benefits could follow from FES cycling, such as cardiovascular health, muscle strength, bone density, risk of pressure sores, deep vein thrombosis, and last but not least, well-being.
Using a wireless electrical stimulator and various sensors located on the pilot and the bike, we will be able to adapt stimulation patterns regarding the force needed and the pedaling cycle.

Training a new participant with compete tetraplegia

Training a participant with complete tetraplegia. After some weeks of muscle training with NMES, the participant is training now on an ergocycle.

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Christine AZEVEDO COSTE 2025/10/17 2025/10/20

Adapting the electrical stimulator to allow a participant with tetraplegia to press the different buttons

With HanditechLab INRIA, we designed an adaptation to make button pressing easier for a person with reduced arm mobility.

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Christine AZEVEDO COSTE 2025/10/13 2025/10/20

FES-Vienna Workshop

Christine AZEVEDO presented the work of Tiago COELHO-MAGALHAES, co-supervised by François BAILLY, on the development of an optimal control framework for FES-cycling simulation. An FES-driven…

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Christine AZEVEDO COSTE 2025/09/22 2025/10/20

New publication

Our article “Numerical-Optimal-Control-Compliant Muscle Model for Electrically Evoked Contractions” has just been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics! In this…

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Christine AZEVEDO COSTE 2025/08/01 2025/10/20

REHABWEEK May 2025

Presentation during IFESS conference during RehabWeek 2025.Défi Clé Robotique centrée sur l’Humain

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Christine AZEVEDO COSTE 2025/05/26 2025/10/20

IEEE RAS HUMANOIDS, November 2024

Inria Stand – CAMIN TeamDemo 3: OptiCycle ProjectPostdoctoral research by Sabrina Otmani, co-supervised by François Bailly and Christine Azevedo.A simulator designed to optimize the mechanical…

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Christine AZEVEDO COSTE 2024/12/01 2025/10/20

Cybathlon 2024

©2024 ETH Zurich / Cybathlon / Nicola Pitaro We have collaborated with UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil team to prepare their pilot, Jonatas, to Cybathlon 2024…

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Christine AZEVEDO COSTE 2024/12/01 2025/10/20

Preparing Cybathlon 2025

Preparing our Pilot to Cybathlon Next week Jonatas will participate in Cybathlon event in the FES-bike discipline. He was prepared during many months in Belo…

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Christine AZEVEDO COSTE 2024/10/25 2025/10/20

Colloque Académie des Sciences – 1er octobre 2024

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Christine AZEVEDO COSTE 2024/09/15 2025/10/20

Communication at IFESS conference

Tiago COELHO-MAGALHAES, post-doc in our team presented his work during IFESS conference organized by University of Bath“FES-INDUCED MUSCULOSKELETAL TRAJECTORY OPTIMIZATION WITH AN ADAPTED MUSCLE MODEL”…

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Christine AZEVEDO COSTE 2024/09/10 2024/09/10
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