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Medical & biological engineering & computing
Dec 12, 2023
Rehabilitation robots are used to promote structural and functional recovery of the nervous system with repetitive, task-oriented training and have been gradually applied to clinical rehabilitation training. This paper proposes an upper limb exoskele...
Science robotics
Dec 6, 2023
A flexible spine is critical to the motion capability of most animals and plays a pivotal role in their agility. Although state-of-the-art legged robots have already achieved very dynamic and agile movement solely relying on their legs, they still ex...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Dec 5, 2023
Notable efforts have been devoted to the development of biomechanical models of the spine, so the development of a motion system to control the spine becomes expressively relevant. This paper presents a fuzzy controller to manipulate the movement of ...
IEEE transactions on neural networks and learning systems
Nov 30, 2023
The study of mouse social behaviors has been increasingly undertaken in neuroscience research. However, automated quantification of mouse behaviors from the videos of interacting mice is still a challenging problem, where object tracking plays a key ...
Prosthetics and orthotics international
Nov 29, 2023
BACKGROUND: Vertical displacement of the residual limb within transtibial prosthetic socket, often known as "pistoning" or downward movement, may lead to skin breakdowns and ulcers. Downward movement is particularly difficult to self-manage for diabe...
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Part H, Journal of engineering in medicine
Nov 29, 2023
Patients with neurological disorders, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, and cerebral palsy, often face challenges due to head-neck immobility. The conventional treatment approach involves using a neck collar to maintain an u...
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Nov 23, 2023
Artificial muscles, providing safe and close interaction between humans and machines, are essential in soft robotics. However, their insufficient deformation, output force, or configurability usually limits their applications. Herein, this work prese...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Nov 8, 2023
Monitoring and quantifying movement behavior is crucial for improving the health of individuals with cerebral palsy (CP). We have modeled and trained an image-based Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to recognize specific movement classifiers relevan...
Physics of life reviews
Nov 7, 2023
The control of movement in living organisms represents a fundamental task that the brain has evolved to solve. One crucial aspect is how the nervous system organizes the transformation of sensory information into motor commands. These commands lead t...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Nov 6, 2023
Wearable sensors provide a tool for at-home monitoring of motor impairment progression in neurological conditions such as Parkinson's disease (PD). This study examined the ability of deep learning approaches to grade the motor impairment severity in ...