MotiMove: Multi-purpose transcutaneous functional electrical stimulator

Abstract

MotiMove is a battery-powered general-purpose transcutaneous functional electrical stimulator (tFES) that comes out of more than 40-year academic research at the University of Belgrade, Serbia. MotiMove can be used for therapeutic intervention, clinical research, and support of fitness training in different application modes (cycling, rowing, grasping, walking, and exercising). Unlike other commercially available tFES devices, it allows real-time open or closed-loop control of stimulation parameters to 8 separate current sources from a multitude of sensors. Recent studies with MotiMove in healthy people and people with motor diseases have shown the applicability of the MotiMove stimulator for different users in various environments. Future development will focus on FES clothes with dry interface electrodes and integrated sensors that combined with MotiMove will make a compact easy-donning testbed for real-time FES control algorithms.