Wearable assistive robotics has emerged as a promising technology to supplement or replace motor functions and to retrain people recovering from an injury or living with reduced mobility. We developed delayed output feedback control for a wearable hi...
Clinical datasets often comprise multiple data points or trials sampled from a single participant. When these datasets are used to train machine learning models, the method used to extract train and test sets must be carefully chosen. Using the stand...
Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation
Apr 28, 2023
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to evaluate the comparative effectiveness and ranking of robot-assisted training, virtual reality, and robot-assisted rehabilitation combined with virtual reality in improving balance, gait, and daily function in patients ...
Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation
Apr 28, 2023
BACKGROUND: We have developed a wearable rehabilitation robot, "curara®," and examined its immediate effect in patients with spinocerebellar degeneration and stroke, but its rehabilitative effect has not been clarified. The purpose of this study was ...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Apr 20, 2023
Automatically personalizing complex control of robotic prostheses to improve gait performance, such as gait symmetry, is challenging. Recently, human-in-the-loop (HIL) optimization and reinforcement learning (RL) have shown promise in achieving optim...
Neurorehabilitation and neural repair
Apr 20, 2023
BACKGROUND: In recent meta-analyses, robot-assisted gait training for patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) have yielded limited clinical benefits compared with conventional overground gait training.
Drop-foot is characterised by an inability to lift the foot, and affects an estimated 3 million people worldwide. Current treatment methods include rigid splints, electromechanical systems, and functional electrical stimulation (FES). However, these ...
Gait recognition, the task of identifying an individual based on their unique walking style, can be difficult because walking styles can be influenced by external factors such as clothing, viewing angle, and carrying conditions. To address these chal...
We report on the development of separated and laterally arranged two-leg (SLTL) models with/without differentiated leg properties and their use as the dynamic running and turning templates for a hexapod robot. The laterally arranged two-leg morpholog...
INTRODUCTION: Animals such as cattle can achieve versatile and elegant behaviors through automatic sensorimotor coordination. Their self-organized movements convey an impression of adaptability, robustness, and motor memory. However, the adaptive mec...