Voluntary Assist-as-Needed Controller for an Ankle Power-Assist Rehabilitation Robot.

Journal: IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Although existing assist-as-needed (AAN) controllers have been designed to adapt the robotic assistance to patients' movement performance, they ignore patient's active participation. This study proposed a voluntary AAN (VAAN) controller considering both movement performance and active participation for an ankle rehabilitation robot.

Authors

  • Renyu Yang
  • Zhihang Shen
  • Yueling Lyu
  • Yu Zhuang
  • Le Li
    Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510080, China.
  • Rong Song