Cristina Santos, Portugal

University of Minho

WG1, WG2, WG3-member

Locomotion, orthosis and prosthesis, gait analysis, dynamical systems, machine learning.
• “Flexible and Adaptive Quadruped Locomotion Generation Using the Dynamical Systems Approach”, FCT PTDC/EEA-CRO/100655/2008, Funding: 197.067,00 €, coordinator and author of the proposal. Submitted in 06-02-2009. Starting date: 01 June 2010. End date: 31 November 2013. Team: Cristina Santos, PI, Industrial Electronics Department, University of Minho; Manuel João Oliveira Ferreira, Industrial Electronics Department, University of Minho; Ana Rocha, Production Department, University of Minho; Lino Costa, Production Department, University of Minho; and Carla Pinto, ISEP Porto. http://asbg.dei.uminho.pt/ 
• INR project: “Smart walker development ”, Funding: 4.032,00 €, Instituto Nacional para a Reabilitação “417/2013 Andarilho”, coordinator and author of the proposal. Submitted in 06-02-2013. Starting date: 01 September 2013. End date: 31 December 2013. Team: Cristina Santos, PI, Industrial Electronics Department, University of Minho; Eurico Seabra, Mechanics Department, University of Minho
• Acções Integradas Luso-Francesas PAULIF project: “Uma proposta híbrida e adaptativa para a locomoção humanóide: combinação de primitivas rítmicas e discretas para a colocação dos pés”, Funding: 1.500,00 €, coordinator and author of the proposal. Submitted in 06-06-2013. Starting date: 01 January 2014. End date: 31 December 2014. Team: Cristina Santos, PI, Industrial Electronics Department, University of Minho; in collaboration with Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie.
• Acções Integradas Luso-Francesas PAULIF project: “Uma proposta híbrida e adaptativa para a locomoção humanóide: combinação de primitivas rítmicas e discretas para a colocação dos pés”, Funding: 1.500,00 €, coordinator and author of the proposal. Submitted in 06-06-2013. Starting date: 01 January 2015. End date: 31 December 2015. Team: Cristina Santos, PI, Industrial Electronics Department, University of Minho; in collaboration with Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie.
PROJECTOS QREN Medida ID – Projecto Individual
• “Máquina de corte laser 3D assistido por visão artificial”. Principal Researcher . Funding : QREN – Projectos de I&DT Empresas Individuais. Starting : 2009-01-16. Duration. 22 Meses. Total funding : 827957.32 Euros (I&DT TecMinho: 86 000Euros). Partners: EDAETECH Engenharia e Tecnologia, S.A.
• “Máquina robotizada de estampagem assistida por visão artificial”. Principal researcher . Funding : QREN – Projectos de I&DT Empresas Individuais. Starting: 2010-10-01. Duration. 24 Meses. Partners: IMAVES, S.A.

  • Ferreira, C., Santos, C.P., A sensory-driven controller for quadruped locomotion, 2017 Biological Cybernetics, 111: 49-67. doi:10.1007/s00422-016-0708-4
  • Maria Martins, Lino Costa, Anselmo Frizera, Cristina P Santos. Feature Reduction with PCA/KPCA for gait classification with different assistive devices. International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics, 2015, 8(4)
  • Maria Martins, Cristina P. Santos, Anselmo Frizera, Ramón Ceres. A review of the functionalities of Smart Walkers. Medical Engineering & Physics, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.medengphy.2015.07.006
  • M Martins, C Santos, L Costa, A Frizera. Feature Reduction and Multi-Classification of Different Assistive Devices according to the gait pattern. Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/17483107.2015.10 79652, 11 (3), 202-218, 1, 2016
  • César Ferreira, Cristina P Santos, Combining Central Pattern generators and Reflexes, Neurocomputing, Volume 170, 25 December 2015, Pages 79–91, Special issue in Advances on Biological Rhythmic Pattern Generation: Experiments, Algorithms and Applications, Elsevier, doi:10.1016/j.neucom.2015.05.113