IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Sep 1, 2023
Soft exosuits hold promise as assistive technology for people with gait deficits owing to a variety of causes. A key aspect of providing useful assistance is to keep the human user at the center of all considerations made in the design, configuration...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Sep 1, 2023
Recent developments in soft wearable robots have shown promise for assistive and rehabilitative use-cases. For inflatable approaches, a major challenge in developing portable systems is finding a balance between portability, performance, and usabilit...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Sep 1, 2023
The objective and quantitative assessment of physical human-exoskeletons interaction (pHEI) represents a pressing necessity in the wearable robots field. This process remains of difficult execution, especially for early stage devices, in which the in...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Sep 1, 2023
Young children with motor disabilities face extra obstacles to engaging in movement and initiating social interaction. A body-weight support harness system (BWSS) allows a child to take steps, explore the environment, and interact with people and obj...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Sep 1, 2023
Robot-assisted neurorehabilitation requires automated generation of goal positions for reaching tasks in functional movement therapy. In state-of-the-art solutions, these positions are determined by a motivational therapy game either through constrai...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Sep 1, 2023
Neurological disorders such as traumatic brain injuries (TBI) can lead to hand impairments in children, negatively impacting their quality of life. Fully wearable robotic hand orthoses (RHO) have been proposed to actively support children and promote...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Sep 1, 2023
One of the most frequent and severe aftermaths of a stroke is the loss of upper limb functionality. Therapy started in the sub-acute phase proved more effective, mainly when the patient participates actively. Recently, a novel set of rehabilitation a...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Sep 1, 2023
Assist-as-needed (AAN) is a paradigm in rehabilitation robotics based on the fact that more active participation from human users promotes faster recovery of motor functions. Moreover, the patients and public engaged and involved in our research desi...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Sep 1, 2023
Rehabilitation after neurological injury can be provided by robots that help patients perform different exercises. Multiple such robots can be combined in a rehabilitation robot gym to allow multiple patients to perform a diverse range of exercises s...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Sep 1, 2023
This paper presents a novel impedance controller for THINGER (THumb INdividuating Grasp Exercise Robot), a 2-degree-of-freedom (DOF) spherical 5-bar exoskeleton designed to augment FINGER (Finger INdividuating Grasp Exercise Robot). Many rehabilitati...