Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2022
Implanted microelectrode arrays can directly pick up electrode signals from the primary motor cortex (M1) during movement, and brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) can decode these signals to predict the directions of contemporaneous movements. However, i...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2022
Quantitative biomarkers of infant motion may be predictive of the development of movement disorders. This study presents and validates a low cost, markerless motion tracking method for the estimation of upper body kinematics of infants from which pro...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2022
Several biomedical contexts such as diagnosis, rehabilitation, and ergonomics require an accurate estimate of human upper limbs kinematics. Wearable inertial measurement units (IMU s) represent a suitable solution because of their unobtrusiveness, po...
International journal of rehabilitation research. Internationale Zeitschrift fur Rehabilitationsforschung. Revue internationale de recherches de readaptation
Mar 1, 2022
The aim of this pilot study was to investigate whether a movement therapy robot can improve skills in using a myoelectric prosthesis by patients with upper limb amputations. This prospective randomized, controlled study included a total of eleven pat...
Zhongguo yi liao qi xie za zhi = Chinese journal of medical instrumentation
Jan 30, 2022
Based on the biomechanical mechanism of human upper limb, the disadvantages of traditional rehabilitation training and the current status of upper limb rehabilitation robot, a six degree of freedom, flexible adjustment, wearable upper limb rehabilita...
NeuroRehabilitation
Jan 1, 2022
BACKGROUND: Rehabilitation of stroke-related upper limb paresis is a major public health issue.
Restorative neurology and neuroscience
Jan 1, 2022
BACKGROUND: Standard mirror therapy (MT) is a well-established therapy regime for severe arm paresis after acquired brain injury. Bilateral robot-assisted mirror therapy (RMT) could be a solution to provide visual and somatosensory feedback simultane...
Technology and health care : official journal of the European Society for Engineering and Medicine
Jan 1, 2022
BACKGROUND: Upper-limb rehabilitation robots have become an important piece of equipment in stroke rehabilitation. The design of exoskeleton mechanisms plays a key role to improve human-robot interface in the upper-limb movements under passive and ac...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Nov 1, 2021
Robotic systems and Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) are common technologies exploited in motor rehabilitation. However, they present some limits. To overcome the weaknesses of both approaches, hybrid cooperative devices have been developed, w...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Nov 1, 2021
Gaze-based intention detection has been explored for robotic-assisted neuro-rehabilitation in recent years. As eye movements often precede hand movements, robotic devices can use gaze information to augment the detection of movement intention in uppe...