AIMC Topic: Rehabilitation

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Stiffness control of a nylon twisted coiled actuator for use in mechatronic rehabilitation devices.

IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Mechatronic rehabilitation devices, especially wearables, have been researched extensively and proven to be promising additions to physical therapy, but most designs utilize traditional actuators providing unnatural, robot-like movements. Therefore, ...

Robotic therapy for phantom limb pain in upper limb amputees.

IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
The system described in this paper combines virtual reality with haptic feedback to increase the level of immersion and invoke the sense of agency in patients with phantom limb pain with the aim of reducing perceived pain. This paper presents three c...

Comparative performance analysis of M-IMU/EMG and voice user interfaces for assistive robots.

IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
People with a high level of disability experience great difficulties to perform activities of daily living and resort to their residual motor functions in order to operate assistive devices. The commercially available interfaces used to control assis...

Nonlinear disturbance observer based sliding mode control of a cable-driven rehabilitation robot.

IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
This paper introduces a cable-driven robot for upper-limb rehabilitation. Kinematic and dynamic of this rehabilitation robot is analyzed. A sliding mode controller combined with a nonlinear disturbance observer is proposed to control this robot in th...

Gait assessment system based on novel gait variability measures.

IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
In this paper, a novel gait assessment system based on measures of gait variability reflected through the variability of shapes of gait cycles trajectories is proposed. The presented gait assessment system is based on SVM (support vector machine) cla...

Cross-wire assist suit concept, for mobile and lightweight multiple degree of freedom hip assistance.

IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
In this paper, we present our cross-wire assist concept, for assisting a single joint in multiple degrees of freedom. It is comprised of four motor driven Bowden cable actuators (wires) per assisted joint, with the wires crossed over each other at th...

Improving motor skill transfer during dyadic robot training through the modulation of the expert role.

IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
In daily life it is necessary to learn skills that can be applied in different tasks and different contexts. Usually these skills are acquired by observation or by direct physical training with another expert person. The critical point is to know whi...

Maintaining subject engagement during robotic rehabilitation with a minimal assist-as-needed (mAAN) controller.

IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
One challenge of robotic rehabilitation interventions is devising ways to encourage and maintain high levels of subject involvement over long duration therapy sessions. Assist-as-needed controllers have been proposed which modulate robot intervention...

Design of Rehabilitation Treatment Coach Robot.

Studies in health technology and informatics
In the rehabilitation treatment for at-home patients, it is not only costly for a patient to hire a professional therapist or personal trainer, but also time consuming for a therapist or trainer to visit all the patients. To improve the situation, we...