Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Jun 5, 2023
Walking in real-world environments involves constant decision-making, e.g., when approaching a staircase, an individual decides whether to engage (climbing the stairs) or avoid. For the control of assistive robots (e.g., robotic lower-limb prostheses...
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Jun 5, 2023
Human kinetics, specifically joint moments and ground reaction forces (GRFs) can provide important clinical information and can be used to control assistive devices. Traditionally, collection of kinetics is mostly limited to the lab environment becau...
Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation
Jun 3, 2023
INTRODUCTION: Robot-assisted gait therapy is frequently used for gait therapy in children and adolescents but has been shown to limit the physiological excursions of the trunk and pelvis. Actuated pelvis movements might support more physiological tru...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
May 31, 2023
Due to subjectivity in refereeing, the results of race walking are often questioned. To overcome this limitation, artificial-intelligence-based technologies have demonstrated their potential. The paper aims at presenting WARNING, an inertial-based we...
IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
May 25, 2023
Robot-aided gait training (RAGT) plays a crucial role in providing high-dose and high-intensity task-oriented physical therapy. The human-robot interaction during RAGT remains technically challenging. To achieve this aim, it is necessary to quantify ...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
May 19, 2023
Compliance control is crucial for physical human-robot interaction, which can enhance the safety and comfort of robot-assisted rehabilitation. In this study, we designed a spatiotemporal compliance control strategy for a new self-designed wearable lo...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
May 17, 2023
Recent advancements in computing and artificial intelligence (AI) make it possible to quantitatively evaluate human movement using digital video, thereby opening the possibility of more accessible gait analysis. The Edinburgh Visual Gait Score (EVGS)...
IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
May 17, 2023
Rich variations in gait are generated according to several attributes of the individual and environment, such as age, athleticism, terrain, speed, personal "style", mood, etc. The effects of these attributes can be hard to quantify explicitly, but re...
Scientific reports
May 4, 2023
Wearable assistive robotics has emerged as a promising technology to supplement or replace motor functions and to retrain people recovering from an injury or living with reduced mobility. We developed delayed output feedback control for a wearable hi...
Journal of biomechanics
Apr 30, 2023
Clinical datasets often comprise multiple data points or trials sampled from a single participant. When these datasets are used to train machine learning models, the method used to extract train and test sets must be carefully chosen. Using the stand...