Accurately estimating knee joint angle during walking from surface electromyography (sEMG) signals can enable more natural control of wearable robotics like exoskeletons. However, challenges exist due to variability across individuals and sessions. T...
Disability and rehabilitation. Assistive technology
Jun 27, 2024
BACKGROUND: Physical and occupational therapists provide routine care for manual wheelchair users and are responsible for training and assessing the quality of transfers. These transfers can produce large loads on the upper extremity joints if improp...
IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Jun 26, 2024
INTRODUCTION: Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterized by motor symptoms whose progression is typically assessed using clinical scales, namely the Movement Disorder Society-Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS). Despite its reliabilit...
Wearable robots are emerging as a viable and effective solution for assisting and enabling people who suffer from balance and mobility disorders. Virtual prototyping is a powerful tool to design robots, preventing the costly iterative physical protot...
Computer methods in biomechanics and biomedical engineering
Jun 20, 2024
Stroke, as a critical global health concern and the second leading cause of death, occurs when blood flow to the brain is interrupted. Although machine learning has advanced in medical safety, there is limited research on stroke prediction using info...
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
Jun 19, 2024
Jumping requires high actuation power for achieving high speed in a short time. Especially, organisms and robots at the insect scale jump in order to overcome size limits on the speed of locomotion. As small jumpers suffer from intrinsically small po...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Jun 19, 2024
OBJECTIVE: Recent deep learning techniques hold promise to enable IMU-driven kinetic assessment; however, they require large extents of ground reaction force (GRF) data to serve as labels for supervised model training. We thus propose using existing ...
IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics
Jun 19, 2024
Table tennis is a sport that demands high levels of technical proficiency and body coordination from players. Biomechanical fingerprints can provide valuable insights into players' habitual movement patterns and characteristics, allowing them to iden...
Repetitive overhead tasks during factory work can cause shoulder injuries resulting in impaired health and productivity loss. Soft wearable upper extremity robots have the potential to be effective injury prevention tools with minimal restrictions us...
Conventional passive ankle foot orthoses (AFOs) have not seen substantial advances or functional improvements for decades, failing to meet the demands of many stakeholders, especially the pediatric population with neurological disorders. Our objectiv...
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