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User-Oriented Evaluation of a Robotic Rollator That Provides Navigation Assistance in Frail Older Adults with and without Cognitive Impairment.

Gerontology
BACKGROUND: Navigational skills decline with age, and this decline is even more pronounced in cognitively impaired (CI) older adults. Navigation assistance is an emerging functionality of robotic rollators (RRs). The evidence on the effectiveness of ...

Automatic Assessment of a Rollator-User's Condition During Rehabilitation Using the i-Walker Platform.

IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Patient condition during rehabilitation has been traditionally assessed using clinical scales. These scales typically require the patient and/or the clinician to rate a number of condition-related items to obtain a final score. This is a time-consumi...

A systematic review of study results reported for the evaluation of robotic rollators from the perspective of users.

Disability and rehabilitation. Assistive technology
PURPOSE: To evaluate the effectiveness and perception of robotic rollators (RRs) from the perspective of users.

Locomotor training through a novel robotic platform for gait rehabilitation in pediatric population: short report.

Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation
BACKGROUND: Cerebral Palsy (CP) is a disorder of posture and movement due to a defect in the immature brain. The use of robotic devices as alternative treatment to improve the gait function in patients with CP has increased. Nevertheless, current gai...

How do walkers avoid a mobile robot crossing their way?

Gait & posture
Robots and Humans have to share the same environment more and more often. In the aim of steering robots in a safe and convenient manner among humans it is required to understand how humans interact with them. This work focuses on collision avoidance ...

Autoregressive-moving-average hidden Markov model for vision-based fall prediction-An application for walker robot.

Assistive technology : the official journal of RESNA
Population aging of the societies requires providing the elderly with safe and dependable assistive technologies in daily life activities. Improving the fall detection algorithms can play a major role in achieving this goal. This article proposes a r...

Biomechanical effects of body weight support with a novel robotic walker for over-ground gait rehabilitation.

Medical & biological engineering & computing
Body weight support (BWS) promotes better functional outcomes for neurologically challenged patients. Despite the established effectiveness of BWS in gait rehabilitation, the findings on biomechanical effects of BWS training still remain contradictor...

An intelligent rollator for mobility impaired persons, especially stroke patients.

Journal of medical engineering & technology
An intelligent rollator (IRO) was developed that aims at obstacle detection and guidance to avoid collisions and accidental falls. The IRO is a retrofit four-wheeled rollator with an embedded computer, two solenoid brakes, rotation sensors on the whe...

MIT-Skywalker: A Novel Gait Neurorehabilitation Robot for Stroke and Cerebral Palsy.

IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
The MIT-Skywalker is a novel robotic device developed for the rehabilitation or habilitation of gait and balance after a neurological injury. It represents an embodiment of the concept exhibited by passive walkers for rehabilitation training. Its nov...

Simulation study on assist-as-needed control of a rehabilitation robotic walker.

Technology and health care : official journal of the European Society for Engineering and Medicine
BACKGROUND: Along with China entering an aging society, the percentage of people that over 60 will reach 34.9% in 2050, resulted in a significant increase in stroke patients.