Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2018
Spinal cord injury (SCI), stroke and other nervous system conditions can result in partial or total paralysis of individual's limbs. Numerous technologies have been proposed to assist neurorehabilitation or movement restoration, e.g. robotics or neur...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2018
The emergence of deep learning techniques has provided new tools for the analysis of complex data in the field of neuroscience. In parallel, advanced statistical approaches like point-process modeling provide powerful tools for analyzing the spiking ...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2018
The population in advanced countries is rapidly aging, and these countries are faced with various issues pertaining to the rapidly aging population. It is expected that manpower shortages for nursing care of the elderly will be resolved using robotic...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2018
This paper describes a controller for guiding and assisting leg movement during walking with a lower limb exoskeleton with actuated hip and knee joints. The primary novel aspect of the controller is that it employs a virtual flow field to influence m...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2018
We have been developing a facial wearable robot to support the eyelid movements of patients with facial paralysis, especially on one side of the face [1]. This robot has a mechanism for supporting eyelid movements, made from a soft material, which is...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2018
Feature learning plays a crucial role in data analysis when the measured data is in a high dimensional space. This paper applied the feature learning technique in data set collected from human movement experiments in an upper limb rehabilitation robo...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2018
Motor imagery (MI) based Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) is an important active BCI paradigm for recognizing movement intention of severely disabled persons. There are extensive studies about MI-based intention recognition, most of which heavily rely ...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2018
Many robotic devices that are used for therapy or as assistive devices rely on pre-defined reference trajectories to assist the user's movements. Fixed pre-defined trajectories force the user to adapt to unnatural movement patterns which may be detri...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2018
Supervised machine learning algorithms, such as Artificial Neural Network (ANN), have been applied to surface electromyograph (sEMG) to classify user's muscular states. This paper introduces a novel framework to design a binary sEMG classifier to dis...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2018
It is known that brain dynamics significantly changes during motor imagery tasks of upper limb involving different kind of interactions with an object. Nevertheless, an automatic discrimination of transitive (i.e., actions involving an object) and in...