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Robotic Gait Training for Individuals With Cerebral Palsy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation
OBJECTIVE: To identify the effects of robotic gait training practices in individuals with cerebral palsy.

Can Lokomat therapy with children and adolescents be improved? An adaptive clinical pilot trial comparing Guidance force, Path control, and FreeD.

Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation
BACKGROUND: Robot-assisted gait therapy is increasingly being used in pediatric neurorehabilitation to complement conventional physical therapy. The robotic device applied in this study, the Lokomat (Hocoma AG, Switzerland), uses a position control m...

Treadmill vs. overground walking: different response to physical interaction.

Journal of neurophysiology
Rehabilitation of human motor function is an issue of growing significance, and human-interactive robots offer promising potential to meet the need. For the lower extremity, however, robot-aided therapy has proven challenging. To inform effective app...

Continuous sweep versus discrete step protocols for studying effects of wearable robot assistance magnitude.

Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation
BACKGROUND: Different groups developed wearable robots for walking assistance, but there is still a need for methods to quickly tune actuation parameters for each robot and population or sometimes even for individual users. Protocols where parameters...

Turn Intent Detection For Control of a Lower Limb Prosthesis.

IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
OBJECTIVE: An adaptable lower limb prosthesis with variable stiffness in the transverse plane requires a control method to effect changes in real time during amputee turning. This study aimed to identify classification algorithms that can accurately ...

Translational Motion Tracking of Leg Joints for Enhanced Prediction of Walking Tasks.

IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
OBJECTIVE: Walking task prediction in powered leg prostheses is an important problem in the development of biomimetic prosthesis controllers. This paper proposes a novel method to predict upcoming walking tasks by estimating the translational motion ...

Gait studies for a quadrupedal microrobot reveal contrasting running templates in two frequency regimes.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Performance metrics such as speed, cost of transport, and stability are the driving factors behind gait selection in legged locomotion. To help understand the effect of gait on the performance and dynamics of small-scale ambulation, we explore four q...

Template for the neural control of directed stepping generalized to all legs of MantisBot.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
We previously developed a neural controller for one leg of our six-legged robot, MantisBot, that could direct locomotion toward a goal by modulating leg-local reflexes with simple descending commands from a head sensor. In this work, we successfully ...

Robotic Resistance Treadmill Training Improves Locomotor Function in Children With Cerebral Palsy: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Study.

Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether applying controlled resistance forces to the legs during the swing phase of gait may improve the efficacy of treadmill training as compared with applying controlled assistance forces in children with cerebral palsy (CP...