Medical engineering & physics
Dec 7, 2022
Joint dynamic properties play essential roles in a wide range of biomechanical movement control. This paper develops a device with a novel mechatronic design to apply small-amplitude perturbations to the human knee. Surface Electromyography is employ...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Dec 3, 2022
With the rise in new soft robotic applications, the control requirements increase. Therefore, precise control methods for soft robots are required. However, the dynamic control of soft robots, which is required for fast movements, is still an open to...
IEEE transactions on neural networks and learning systems
Nov 30, 2022
Spatial mapping and navigation are critical cognitive functions of autonomous agents, enabling one to learn an internal representation of an environment and move through space with real-time sensory inputs, such as visual observations. Existing model...
Medical & biological engineering & computing
Nov 29, 2022
This study describes the development (design, construction, instrumentation, and control) of a nursing mobile robotic device to monitor vital signals in home-cared patients. The proposed device measures electrocardiography potentials, oxygen saturati...
IEEE transactions on cybernetics
Nov 18, 2022
Understanding the fine-grained temporal structure of human actions and its semantic interpretation is beneficial to many real-world tasks, such as sports movements, rehabilitation exercises, and daily-life activities analysis. Current action segmenta...
IEEE transactions on cybernetics
Nov 18, 2022
Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) have been widely employed to identify and estimate a user's intention to trigger a robotic device by decoding motor imagery (MI) from an electroencephalogram (EEG). However, developing a BCI system driven by MI relate...
IEEE transactions on cybernetics
Nov 18, 2022
How to generate anthropomorphic reaching movement remains a challenging problem in service robots and human motor function repair/reconstruction equipment. However, there is no universally accepted computational model in the literature for reproducin...
Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Nov 11, 2022
Direct contact of random objects from the open environment to the panel surface of an electronic device may reduce the work efficiency and cause permanent damage. However, there is a possible way to solve this problem, notably by implementing an adap...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Nov 10, 2022
With the advance of the Internet of things (IoT), localization is essential in varied services. In urban scenarios, multiple transmitters localization is faced with challenges such as nonline-of-sight (NLOS) propagation and limited deployment of sens...
PloS one
Nov 10, 2022
Many anticipated physical human-robot interaction (pHRI) applications in the near future are overground tasks such as walking assistance. For investigating the biomechanics of human movement during pHRI, this work presents Ophrie, a novel interactive...