The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.

Marc W McConley

Juha-Pekka J Laine

Gregory P Blasche

Jesse J Wheeler

Paul A Bohn

Evan M Lally

Matthew T Reaves

Andrew Czarnecki

James E Moran

Sandra M Klute

James Donna

Philip D Parks

Matthew S Bottkol

Emily H Templeton

Keith B Baldwin

David Goldberg

Bruce Dow

Alex Kindle

Michael Ricard

The systems and methods described herein include an external base station with a tethered transceiver, an implanted hub that includes power, telemetry, and processing electronics, and a plurality of implanted satellite that contain reconfigurable front-end electronics for interfacing with electrodes. The system can operate in different modes. In a first mode, called a base boost mode, the external base station is used for closed-loop control of stimulation therapies. In a second, autonomous mode, closed-loop control is performed in the hub without direct influence from the base station. In a third mode, streams of neural data are transmitted to an offline processor for offline analysis.

Implantable hub and satellite system for neural recording and stimulation

Systems and methods for determining the shape and/or position of an object are described. A fiber optic shape sensor (FOSS) may be used in combination with one or more inertial measurement units (IMUs) to mutually cross-correct for errors in the sensors' measurements of position and/or orientation. The IMU(s) may be attached to the FOSS's optical fiber, such that each IMU measures the orientation of a corresponding portion of the optical fiber. The position and shape of the optical fiber can then be determined based on the measurements obtained from the IMU(s) and the measurements obtained from the FOSS. For example, the FOSS measurements and the IMU measurements can be provided to a state estimation unit (e.g., a Kalman filter), which can estimate the position and/or shape of the optical fiber based on those measurements. In some embodiments, the estimates of position are used for navigation of tethered mobile devices.

Navigation systems and methods using fiber optic shape sensors and localized position sensors

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Marc W McConley