IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jul 1, 2017
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the world. A program of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is related to physical activities or exercises to regain the optimal quality of life. CR relies on the necessity to evaluate, control and supe...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jul 1, 2017
People with a high level of disability experience great difficulties to perform activities of daily living and resort to their residual motor functions in order to operate assistive devices. The commercially available interfaces used to control assis...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jul 1, 2017
The majority of children with autism face difficulties in social interaction and communication skills. Consequently, in this paper we present a pilot study in which we explored the usability of Sphero as a rehabilitation tool for developing social an...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jul 1, 2017
Activities of Daily Living (ADL's) refer to tasks that people do on a daily basis, such as self-feeding, cleaning the house, or bathing. These activities often require a degree of functional mobility that may be outside the ability of a person suffer...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jul 1, 2017
In the recent decades state of the art technologies appeared in many areas to assist older adults with disabilities. However, one very essential activity of daily life, the toileting remained without any relevant development. The iToilet project of t...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jul 1, 2017
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a multifaceted neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by a persistence of social and communication impairment, and restricted and repetitive behaviors. However, motor disorders have also been described, but not ob...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jul 1, 2017
Assessing joint position sense for rehabilitation after neurological injury provides a prognostic factor in recovery and long-term functional outcomes. A common method for testing joint position sense involves the active replication of a joint config...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jul 1, 2017
This study deals with a technology to estimate the muscle activity from the movement data using a statistical model. A linear regression (LR) model and artificial neural networks (ANN) have been known as statistical models for such use. Although ANN ...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jul 1, 2017
This paper demonstrates how an assistive 6 DoF robotic arm with a gripper can be controlled manually using a tongue interface. The proposed method suggests that it possible for a user to manipulate the surroundings with his or her tongue using the in...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jul 1, 2017
The most important step for lower extremity exoskeleton is to infer human motion intent (HMI), which contributes to achieve human exoskeleton collaboration. Since the user is in the control loop, the relationship between human robot interaction (HRI)...
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