AIMC Topic: Ankle Joint

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Estimation of the Continuous Walking Angle of Knee and Ankle (Talocrural Joint, Subtalar Joint) of a Lower-Limb Exoskeleton Robot Using a Neural Network.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
A lower-limb exoskeleton robot identifies the wearer's walking intention and assists the walking movement through mechanical force; thus, it is important to be able to identify the wearer's movement in real-time. Measurement of the angle of the knee ...

State of the art in parallel ankle rehabilitation robot: a systematic review.

Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation
BACKGROUND: The ankle joint complex (AJC) is of fundamental importance for balance, support, and propulsion. However, it is particularly susceptible to musculoskeletal and neurological injuries, especially neurological injuries such as drop foot foll...

Effects of wearable ankle robotics for stair and over-ground training on sub-acute stroke: a randomized controlled trial.

Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation
BACKGROUND: Wearable ankle robotics could potentially facilitate intensive repetitive task-specific gait training on stair environment for stroke rehabilitation. A lightweight (0.5 kg) and portable exoskeleton ankle robot was designed to facilitate o...

Artificial Intelligence-Assisted motion capture for medical applications: a comparative study between markerless and passive marker motion capture.

Computer methods in biomechanics and biomedical engineering
We aimed to determine whether artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted markerless motion capture software is useful in the clinical medicine and rehabilitation fields. Currently, it is unclear whether the AI-assisted markerless method can be applied to ...

A Single-Shot Region-Adaptive Network for Myotendinous Junction Segmentation in Muscular Ultrasound Images.

IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Tracking the myotendinous junction (MTJ) in consecutive ultrasound images is crucial for understanding the mechanics and pathological conditions of the muscle-tendon unit. However, the lack of reliable and efficient identification of MTJ due to poor ...

Robot Assisted Ankle Neuro-Rehabilitation: State of the art and Future Challenges.

Expert review of neurotherapeutics
: Robot-assisted neuro-rehabilitation is gaining acceptability among the physical therapy community. The ankle is one of the most complicated anatomical joints in the human body and neurologic injuries such as stroke often result in ankle and foot di...

Bicycling Phase Recognition for Lower Limb Amputees Using Support Vector Machine Optimized by Particle Swarm Optimization.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
A novel method for recognizing the phases in bicycling of lower limb amputees using support vector machine (SVM) optimized by particle swarm optimization (PSO) is proposed in this paper. The method is essential for enhanced prosthetic knee joint cont...

Passive Exercise Adaptation for Ankle Rehabilitation Based on Learning Control Framework.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Ankle injuries are among the most common injuries in sport and daily life. However, for their recovery, it is important for patients to perform rehabilitation exercises. These exercises are usually done with a therapist's guidance to help strengthen ...

Kinematic Calibration of a Parallel 2-UPS/RRR Ankle Rehabilitation Robot.

Journal of healthcare engineering
In order to better perform rehabilitation training on the ankle joint complex in the direction of dorsiflexion/plantarflexion and inversion/eversion, especially when performing the isokinetic muscle strength exercise, we need to calibrate the kinemat...

Mechanics of walking and running up and downhill: A joint-level perspective to guide design of lower-limb exoskeletons.

PloS one
Lower-limb wearable robotic devices can improve clinical gait and reduce energetic demand in healthy populations. To help enable real-world use, we sought to examine how assistance should be applied in variable gait conditions and suggest an approach...