IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Jun 1, 2018
Multimodal signal analysis based on sophisticated noninvasive sensors, efficient communication systems, and machine learning, have a rapidly increasing range of different applications. The present paper is devoted to pattern recognition and the analy...
IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Apr 1, 2018
This paper suggests a novel method of strengthening specific muscle groups in the lower limb during a functional movement. When the foot of an user wearing an exoskeletal robot follows a given path, the contribution of each muscle group to generate t...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jul 1, 2017
We present the design of low-cost fabric-based Hat pneumatic actuators for soft assistive glove application. The soft assistive glove is designed to assist hand impaired patients in performing activities of daily living and rehabilitation. The actuat...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jul 1, 2017
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, ...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jul 1, 2017
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...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jul 1, 2017
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...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jul 1, 2017
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...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jul 1, 2017
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...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jul 1, 2017
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...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jul 1, 2017
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...
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