IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jun 1, 2019
Movement patterns are commonly disrupted after a neurological incident. The correction and recovery of these movement patterns is part of therapeutic practice, and should be considered in the development of robotic device control strategies. This is ...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jun 1, 2019
Robot-assisted rehabilitation of hand function is becoming an established approach to complement conventional therapy after stroke, particularly in view of its possible unsupervised use to promote an increase in therapy dose. Given their intensive th...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jun 1, 2019
Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is a painful and debilitating condition that is associated with mechanical loading of the knee joint. Numerous conservative treatment strategies have been developed to delay time to total joint replacement. Unloader braces a...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jun 1, 2019
Socially Assistive Robotics (SAR) has shown to be an important tool to assist patients in physical rehabilitation. SAR is used to provide feedback about patient's state and performance to users and health professionals, therefore, patients are monito...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jun 1, 2019
Robot assisted gait retraining is an increasingly common method for supporting restoration of walking function after neurological injury. Gait speed, an indicator of walking function, is correlated with propulsive force, a measure modulated by the po...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jun 1, 2019
Drawing inspiration from autonomous vehicles, using future environment information could improve the control of wearable biomechatronic devices for assisting human locomotion. To the authors knowledge, this research represents the first documented in...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jun 1, 2019
This paper presents a novel robotic finger prosthesis for partially amputated patients who have lost a thumb and index finger. The challenging issues were to design i) a three-degree-of-freedom (DOF) underactuated mechanism that mimics intact finger ...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jun 1, 2019
Several research groups have developed and studied powered ankle exoskeletons to improve energetics of healthy subjects and the mobility of elderly subjects, or to reduce asymmetry in gaits induced by strokes. To achieve optimal effect, the timing of...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jun 1, 2019
In this paper, we address the problem of assist-as-needed (AAN) control of rehabilitation robots. The objective is to develop a path tracking control scheme with the minimized intervention of the robot to gain active participation of impaired subject...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jun 1, 2019
This paper introduces an adaptive integral sliding mode controller for exoskeletons. The controller design is based on the hypothesis that only classical properties are known such as parameters' bounds, and all other functions are unknown. To ensure ...