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Single-stride exposure to pulse torque assistance provided by a robotic exoskeleton at the hip and knee joints.

IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Robot assisted gait retraining is an increasingly common method for supporting restoration of walking function after neurological injury. Gait speed, an indicator of walking function, is correlated with propulsive force, a measure modulated by the po...

Preliminary Design of an Environment Recognition System for Controlling Robotic Lower-Limb Prostheses and Exoskeletons.

IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Drawing inspiration from autonomous vehicles, using future environment information could improve the control of wearable biomechatronic devices for assisting human locomotion. To the authors knowledge, this research represents the first documented in...

On the Design of a Novel Underactuated Robotic Finger Prosthesis for Partial Hand Amputation.

IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
This paper presents a novel robotic finger prosthesis for partially amputated patients who have lost a thumb and index finger. The challenging issues were to design i) a three-degree-of-freedom (DOF) underactuated mechanism that mimics intact finger ...

An Assistive Control Strategy for Rehabilitation Robots Using Velocity Field and Force Field.

IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
In this paper, we address the problem of assist-as-needed (AAN) control of rehabilitation robots. The objective is to develop a path tracking control scheme with the minimized intervention of the robot to gain active participation of impaired subject...

Adaptive Continuous Integral-Sliding-Mode Controller for Wearable Robots: Application to an Upper Limb Exoskeleton.

IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
This paper introduces an adaptive integral sliding mode controller for exoskeletons. The controller design is based on the hypothesis that only classical properties are known such as parameters' bounds, and all other functions are unknown. To ensure ...

Virtual Reality Environments and Haptic Strategies to Enhance Implicit Learning and Motivation in Robot-Assisted Training.

IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Motivation plays a crucial role in motor learning and neurorehabilitation. Participants' motivation could decline to a point where they may stop training when facing a very difficult task. Conversely, participants may perform well and consider the tr...

Multi-purpose Robotic Training Strategies for Neurorehabilitation with Model Predictive Controllers.

IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
One of the main challenges in robotic neuroreha-bilitation is to understand how robots should physically interact with trainees to optimize motor leaning. There is evidence that motor exploration (i.e., the active exploration of new motor tasks) is c...

Designing and Evaluating the Face of Lil'Flo: an Affordable Social Rehabilitation Robot.

IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
We introduce Lil'Flo, an affordable robot for pediatric upper extremity rehabilitation. We present the design and fabrication methodology of the head and face of the robot, the central design element for emotional expression. Through a guided intervi...

Robust Optimal Design of Energy Efficient Series Elastic Actuators: Application to a Powered Prosthetic Ankle.

IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Design of rehabilitation and physical assistance robots that work safely and efficiently despite uncertain operational conditions remains an important challenge. Current methods for the design of energy efficient series elastic actuators use an optim...

Preliminary Evaluation of Disturbance Torque Estimation Approaches for Lower-limb Robotic Rehabilitation.

IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
In robotic rehabilitation, knowledge of human joint torques is very important to provide reliable data for clinical assessment and to provide feedback information about the user in order to design safe robotic control strategies. Nevertheless, their ...