A Human Lower Limb Mechanical Phantom for the Testing of Knee Exoskeletons
IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 2023 The development of assistive lower-limb exoskeletons can be time-consuming. Testing prototype medical devices on vulnerable populations such as children also has safety concerns.
W. Sebastian Barrutia +2 more
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Design, control and evaluation of a low-cost active orthosis for the gait of spinal cord injured subjects [PDF]
, 2016 Robotic gait training after spinal cord injury is of high priority to maximize independence and improve the living conditions of the patients. Current rehabilitation robots are expensive and heavy, and are generally found only in the clinical environment.
Alonso Sánchez, Francisco Javier +6 more
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Biomechanical Loading as an Alternative Treatment for Tremor: A Review of Two Approaches [PDF]
, 2012 Background: Tremor is the most common movement disorder and strongly increases in incidence and prevalence with aging. Although not life threatening, upper-limb tremors hamper the independence of 65% of people suffering from them affected persons ...
Belda-Lois, Juan Manuel +4 more
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Actuators, 2022 A typical man–machine coupling system could provide the wearer a coordinated and assisted movement by the lower limb exoskeleton. The process of cooperative movement relies on the accurate perception of the wearer’s human movement information and the ...
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Analysis of walking with unilateral exoskeleton assistance compared to bilateral assistance with matched work [PDF]
, 2015 The finding of the highest negative metabolic rate versus mechanical work ratio in the Bilateral Matched Total Work condition means that if a constrained amount of mechanical work is available (e.g.
De Clercq, Dirk +3 more
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Finite Time Robust Control of the Sit-to-Stand Movement for Powered Lower Limb Orthoses
, 2018 This study presents a technique to safely control the Sit-to-Stand movement of powered lower limb orthoses in the presence of parameter uncertainty. The weight matrices used to calculate the finite time horizon linear-quadratic regulator (LQR) gain in ...
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Robotic lower limb exoskeletons using proportional myoelectric control [PDF]
2009 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2009 Robotic lower limb exoskeletons have been built for augmenting human performance, assisting with disabilities, studying human physiology, and re-training motor deficiencies. At the University of Michigan Human Neuromechanics Laboratory, we have built pneumatically-powered lower limb exoskeletons for the last two purposes. Most of our prior research has
Daniel P, Ferris, Cara L, Lewis
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A Review on Lower Limb Rehabilitation Exoskeleton Robots
Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering, 2019 Lower limb rehabilitation exoskeleton robots integrate sensing, control, and other technologies and exhibit the characteristics of bionics, robotics, information and control science, medicine, and other interdisciplinary areas.
Di Shi +3 more
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Design and validation of exoskeleton actuated by soft modules towards neurorehabilitation - vision-based control for precise reaching motion of upper limb [PDF]
, 2017 We demonstrated the design, production, and functional properties of the Exoskeleton Actuated by the Soft Modules (EAsoftM). Integrating the 3D printed exoskeleton with passive joints to compensate gravity and with active joints to rotate the shoulder ...
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Modeling and Design of a Spring-loaded, Cable-driven, Wearable Exoskeleton for the Upper Extremity [PDF]
, 2015 An approach to the design of wearable exoskeletons on the basis of simulation of the exoskeleton and a human body model is proposed in this paper. The new approach, addressing the problem of physical human-exoskeleton interactions, models and simulates ...
Andersen, Michael Skipper +3 more
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