Applied Computational Neuroscience
A chronological record of our programmes, with funding scope and research team visible on every entry.
National
BRAINMOVE is a Spanish national research project funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by FEDER, UE. The project investigates how the cerebellum, the basal ganglia and the hippocampus jointly support efficient, adaptive and safe motor control, and how these principles can be translated into machine-learning controllers for collaborative robots with complex, compliant dynamics.
European
HumAMI strengthens the European Physical AI ecosystem through edge AI, agentic AI, cloud resources, connectivity, and real-world industrial demonstrators.
Ríchard R. Carrillo National
The project supplies scientific and technical industrial equipment for UGR-DONES and for the Unit of Mechatronics and Electronic Systems at the University of Granada’s Scientific Instrumentation Centre (CIC).
Eduardo Ros National
Essential Tremor (ET) is a widespread neurological condition that is characterised by involuntary shaking that primarily affects the hands but it also extends to also impact visual stability. These tremors pass often unnoticed in their subtler forms, and they become recognisable as ET only when they manifest prominently. ET presents distinct challenges in motor control and visual coordination, especially in older individuals but note however that it should not be confused with Parkinson’s disease. Whilst the precise cause of ET remains elusive, there is a growing research that indicates a significant role played by the inferior olive (IO) and more specifically its rhythmic neural activity. As an integral part of the cerebellar system, this IO’s rhythmic neural activity that ultimately coordinates the cerebellar motor signals that drive motor coordination is relevant to understanding the ET is suggested as a potential driver for ET.
Niceto R. Luque National
The MUSCLEBOT project is a national Spanish project funded by the Spanish National Research Agency MUSCLEBOT(CNS2022-135243) funded by “MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033” and by the European Union “NextGenerationEU/PRTR”. MUSCLEBOT tries to benefit from decades of neuroscience studies about the spino-cerebellar structure and functioning, and apply those findings to the current HRI robotic challenge. Here we address this challenge by adding a muscle model to cobot equipped with series elastic actuators, i.e., Baxter, Sawyer or Panda cobots, and performing spino-cerebellar control able to learn different stiffness profiles which ultimately will improve HRI.
Niceto R. Luque National
SENSCOMP is a Spanish national research project funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by FEDER, UE. The project investigates how the cerebellum and the basal ganglia achieve efficient and precise control through their internal adaptation mechanisms, and integrates the resulting models into neural-simulation and neurorobotics platforms.
National
The DLROB project is a national Spanish project funded by the Spanish National Research Agency DLROB (TED2021-630 131294B-I00) funded by MCIN/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033 and by European Union NextGenerationEU/PRTR. Niceto R. Luque is Principal Investigator and Richard R. Carrillo is Co-Principal Investigator. This project focuses on proposing a cobot dynamic modelling methodology and subsequent cobot control that are to be learnt rather than calculated, i.e., data-driven vs. equation-driven modelling and control.
Niceto R. LuqueRíchard R. Carrillo National
The SPIKEAGE project is a national Spanish project funded by the Spanish National Research Agency SPIKEAGE(MICINN-PID2020-113422G A-I00) ref (MCIN/ AEI/10.13039/501100011033). This project studies ageing in the cerebellum by following a multidisciplinary holistic approach.
Niceto R. Luque National
INTSENSO is a Spanish national research project funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation through MICINN-FEDER-PID2019-109991GB-I00.
Eduardo Ros
Regional
CEREBIO is a regional Andalusian research project funded by the Regional Ministry of University, Research and Innovation and the European Regional Development Fund (P18-FR-2378).
Eduardo Ros European
IMOCO4.E developed distributed edge-to-cloud intelligence for machines, robots, and human-in-the-loop cyber-physical systems, combining AI and digital-twin technologies for resilient manufacturing applications.
Eduardo RosNiceto R. Luque European
The HBP is a European flagship initiative aiming to build a research infrastructure to help advance neuroscience, medicine and computing based on brain computational modelling. Our group is included as part of the Neurorobotics Subproject (SP10), with Jesús Garrido Alcázar and Niceto R. Luque in the research team.
Eduardo Ros European
The NEURSEQBOT project is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions founded by the European Commission (MSCA-IF-2019 891774). This multidisciplinary project studies in mice, reproduces with computational models, and applies in neurorobotics experiments how recurrent projections in the cerebellum can help with motor sequence learning.
Francisco Naveros Arrabal National
Perceiving and understanding the environment and being able to efficiently interact with it dynamically is critical for next generation of robots. The human brain is capable of processing and integrating a masive amount of hetereogeneous sensory data, both from external sources (sensory system) as from internal sources (as feedback from previously stored internal representations). Thus, the human brain is a very good reference that performs closed-loop perception-action processing tasks intensively through a highly specialized neuronal structure.
Eduardo Ros European
The REALNET project is a FET Proactive initiative aiming to build the first realistic cerebellar model that can run in real-time and be used for controlling robotic systems. Our group develops the software simulation tool (EDLUT) and the simplified (spiking point neurons) model of the cerebellum, with Jesús Garrido Alcázar and Niceto R. Luque in the research team.
Eduardo Ros European
CEREBSENSING is a H2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action (IF) aiming to understand how the cerebellum processes sensorial information coming from the cerebral cortex by using computational models embedded in realistic perception-action simulations.
Jesús Garrido European
SpikeControl was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship that used biologically plausible cerebellar spiking models in real-time closed-loop sensorimotor control and neurorobotics experiments.
Niceto R. Luque
Diego Navarro
Juan Helios García Guzmán
Adán Cruz
Brayan Alfonso Valencia Vidal
José Bernardo Martínez
Javier Ubago
María P. Tirado
Ignacio Abadia
Álvaro González
Francisco Barranco