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Biofabrication
Apr 20, 2022
Tissue biomanufacturing aims to produce lab-grown stem cell grafts and biomimetic drug testing platforms but remains limited in its ability to recapitulate native tissue mechanics. The emerging field of soft robotics aims to emulate dynamic physiolog...
Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Apr 18, 2022
Today's gecko-inspired robots have shown the ability of omnidirectional climbing on slopes with a low centre of mass. However, such an ability cannot efficiently cope with bumpy terrains or terrains with obstacles. In this study, we developed a gecko...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Apr 13, 2022
Forecasted gait trajectories of children could be used as feedforward input to control lower limb robotic devices, such as exoskeletons and actuated orthotic devices (e.g., Powered Ankle Foot Orthosis-PAFO). Several studies have forecasted healthy ga...
Scientific reports
Apr 7, 2022
Inspired by biomechanical studies, the spring-loaded inverted pendulum model is an effective behavior model to describe the running movement of animals and legged robots in the sagittal plane. However, when confronted with external lateral disturbanc...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
Apr 6, 2022
PURPOSE: Using the da Vinci Research Kit (dVRK), we propose and experimentally demonstrate transfer learning (Xfer) of dynamics between different configurations and robots distributed around the world. This can extend recent research using neural net...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Apr 5, 2022
Foot progression angle (FPA) analysis is one of the core methods to detect gait pathologies as basic information to prevent foot injury from excessive in-toeing and out-toeing. Deep learning-based object detection can assist in measuring the FPA thro...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Mar 23, 2022
In this work, we present the overground prototype gait-rehabilitation robot for using motion assistance and training for paralyzed patients. In contrast to the existing gait-rehabilitation robots, which focus on the sagittal plane motion of the hip a...
IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Mar 21, 2022
Estimation of joint torque during movement provides important information in several settings, such as effect of athletes' training or of a medical intervention, or analysis of the remaining muscle strength in a wearer of an assistive device. The abi...
The Journal of arthroplasty
Mar 16, 2022
BACKGROUND: Accurate hip joint center (HJC) determination is critical for preoperative planning, intraoperative execution, clinical outcomes after total hip arthroplasty, and commonly used classification systems in primary and revision hip replacemen...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Mar 16, 2022
Accurate kinematic modelling is pivotal in the safe and reliable execution of both contact and non-contact robotic applications. The kinematic models provided by robot manufacturers are valid only under ideal conditions and it is necessary to account...