AIMC Topic: Ankle Joint

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Research on an ankle rehabilitation robot for hemiplegic patients after stroke.

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Part H, Journal of engineering in medicine
This paper proposes an ankle rehabilitation robot to assist hemiplegic patients with movement training. The robot consists of two symmetric mechanisms, allowing stroke survivors to execute ankle rehabilitation training based on physiological differen...

Using Deep Learning Models to Predict Prosthetic Ankle Torque.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Inverse dynamics from motion capture is the most common technique for acquiring biomechanical kinetic data. However, this method is time-intensive, limited to a gait laboratory setting, and requires a large array of reflective markers to be attached ...

Clinical Relevance and Function of Anterior Talofibular Ligament Superior and Inferior Fascicles: A Robotic Study.

The American journal of sports medicine
BACKGROUND: Ankle lateral ligament sprains are common injuries in sports, and some may result in persistent ankle pain and a feeling of instability without clinical evidence of instability. The anterior talofibular ligament (ATFL) has 2 distinct fasc...

The Emerging Role of Automation, Measurement Standardization, and Artificial Intelligence in Foot and Ankle Imaging: An Update.

Foot and ankle clinics
In the past few years, advances in clinical imaging in the realm of foot and ankle have been consequential and game changing. Improvements in the hardware aspects, together with the development of computer-assisted interpretation and intervention too...

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

IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
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 co...

Introduction to a Twin Dual-Axis Robotic Platform for Studies of Lower Limb Biomechanics.

IEEE journal of translational engineering in health and medicine
This paper presents a twin dual-axis robotic platform system which is designed for the characterization of postural balance under various environmental conditions and quantification of bilateral ankle mechanics in 2 degrees-of-freedom (DOF) during st...

Exoskeletons need to react faster than physiological responses to improve standing balance.

Science robotics
Maintaining balance throughout daily activities is challenging because of the unstable nature of the human body. For instance, a person's delayed reaction times limit their ability to restore balance after disturbances. Wearable exoskeletons have the...

The effect of the 2-UPS/RR ankle rehabilitation robot with coupling biomechanical model on muscle behaviors.

Medical & biological engineering & computing
With the popularization of biomechanical simulation technology, aiming at the rehabilitation of ankle joint injury, we imported simplified model of proposed 2-UPS/RR (two identical unconstraint kinematic branches with a universal-prismatic-spherical ...

Quantification of manipulation forces needed for robot-assisted reduction of the ankle syndesmosis: an initial cadaveric study.

International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
PURPOSE: Manual surgical manipulation of the tibia and fibula is necessary to properly align and reduce the space in ankle fractures involving sprain of the distal tibiofibular syndesmosis. However, manual reduction is highly variable and can result ...

Simulating Ideal Assistive Strategies to Reduce the Metabolic Cost of Walking in the Elderly.

IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
OBJECTIVE: Development of walking assist exoskeletons is a growing area of study, offering a solution to restore, maintain, and enhance mobility. However, applying this technology to the elderly is challenging and there is currently no consensus as t...