AIMC Topic: Persons with Disabilities

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Ultrasonic Tethering to Enable Side-by-Side Following for Powered Wheelchairs.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
In social situations, people who use a powered wheelchair must divide their attention between navigating the chair and conversing with people. These conversations could lead to increased mental stress when navigating and distraction from maneuvering ...

Testing of an assistive robot system for haptic exploration of objects.

Assistive technology : the official journal of RESNA
INTRODUCTION: When children with physical impairments cannot perform hand movements for haptic exploration, they may miss opportunities to learn the properties of objects. Assistive robots may enable them to make manipulation actions.

Assistance Robotics and Biosensors.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
This Special Issue is focused on breakthrough developments in the field of biosensors and current scientific progress in biomedical signal processing. The papers address innovative solutions in assistance robotics based on bioelectrical signals, incl...

Predicting hospital associated disability from imbalanced data using supervised learning.

Artificial intelligence in medicine
Hospitalization of elderly patients can lead to serious adverse effects on their functional capability. Identifying the underlying factors leading to such adverse effects is an active area of medical research. The purpose of the current paper is to s...

Deep neural models for extracting entities and relationships in the new RDD corpus relating disabilities and rare diseases.

Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: There is a huge amount of rare diseases, many of which have associated important disabilities. It is paramount to know in advance the evolution of the disease in order to limit and prevent the appearance of disabilities and ...

A review in gait rehabilitation devices and applied control techniques.

Disability and rehabilitation. Assistive technology
PURPOSE: The aim of this review is to analyse the different existing technologies for gait rehabilitation, focusing mainly in robotic devices. Those robots help the patient to recover a lost function due to neurological gait disorders, accidents or a...

Long-term use of the JACO robotic arm: a case series.

Disability and rehabilitation. Assistive technology
PURPOSE: Past research with JACO has principally focused on the short-term impacts on new users. Therefore, this study aims to document the long-term impacts of this assistive device on users and their family caregivers following prolonged use.

IHMC's experience competing in the Cybathlon compared to the DARPA robotics challenge.

Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation
BACKGROUND: As a research scientist, my work tends to focus on scientific investigations. Our group occasionally makes discoveries or has a successful demonstration, and sometimes we can even repeatedly demonstrate something working on the hardware. ...

Iterative Learning Impedance for Lower Limb Rehabilitation Robot.

Journal of healthcare engineering
This paper discusses the problem of squatting training of stroke patients. The main idea is to correct the patient's training trajectory through an iterative learning control (ILC) method. To obtain better rehabilitation effect, a patient will typica...