IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jul 1, 2017
Many common activities of daily living like open a door or fill a glass of water, which most of us take for granted, could be an insuperable problem for people who have limited mobility or impairments. For years the unique alternative to overcame thi...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jul 1, 2017
We present the design of low-cost fabric-based Hat pneumatic actuators for soft assistive glove application. The soft assistive glove is designed to assist hand impaired patients in performing activities of daily living and rehabilitation. The actuat...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jul 1, 2017
Prosthetic arms should restore and extend the capabilities of someone with an amputation. They should move naturally and be able to perform elegant, coordinated movements that approximate those of a biological arm. Despite these objectives, the contr...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jul 1, 2017
Prosthetic devices have advanced in their capabilities and in the number and type of sensors included in their design. As the space of sensorimotor data available to a conventional or machine learning prosthetic control system increases in dimensiona...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jul 1, 2017
Adequate benchmarking procedures in the area of wearable robots is gaining importance in order to compare different devices on a quantitative basis, improve them and support the standardization and regulation procedures. Performance assessment usuall...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jul 1, 2017
Many control methods have been proposed for powered prosthetic legs, ranging from finite state machines that switch between discrete phases of gait to unified controllers that have a continuous sense of phase. In particular, recent work has shown tha...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jul 1, 2017
Mechatronic rehabilitation devices, especially wearables, have been researched extensively and proven to be promising additions to physical therapy, but most designs utilize traditional actuators providing unnatural, robot-like movements. Therefore, ...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jul 1, 2017
Robotic hands embedding human motor control principles in their mechanical design are getting increasing interest thanks to their simplicity and robustness, combined with good performance. Another key aspect of these hands is that humans can use them...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jul 1, 2017
To prevent learned non-use of the affected hand in chronic stroke survivors, rehabilitative training should be continued after discharge from the hospital. Robotic hand orthoses are a promising approach for home rehabilitation. When combined with int...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jul 1, 2017
In this paper, we present our cross-wire assist concept, for assisting a single joint in multiple degrees of freedom. It is comprised of four motor driven Bowden cable actuators (wires) per assisted joint, with the wires crossed over each other at th...