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Actuators, 2023 With ever-rising population comes a corresponding rise in people with mobility issues who have difficulty handling tasks in their daily lives. Such persons could benefit significantly from an active movement assistance device.
Ashwin Jayakumar +5 more
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Fabric-Based, Pneumatic Exosuit for Lower-Back Support in Manual-Handling Tasks
Actuators, 2023 Lower-back pain (LBP) is a major cause of occupational disability and morbidity. This study investigates the effectiveness of a fabric-based pneumatic exosuit in reducing discomfort and lumbar muscle activation in healthy individuals who are performing ...
Amit Nirmal Cuttilan +2 more
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Does a Soft Actuated Back Exosuit Influence Multimodal Physiological Measurements and User Perception During an Industry Inspired Task? [PDF]
, 2023 Back support soft exosuits are promising solutions to reduce risk of musculoskeletal injuries at workplaces resulting from physically demanding and repetitive lifting tasks.
Jacobs, An +16 more
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A Soft Exosuit for Flexible Upper-Extremity Rehabilitation
IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 2018 For stroke survivors and many other people with upper-extremity impairment, daily life can be difficult without properly functioning arms. Some modern physical therapy exercises focus on rehabilitating people with these troubles by correcting patients' perceptions of their own body to eventually regain complete control and strength over their arms ...
Steven Lessard +5 more
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IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 2022 Hip-assisted soft exosuits have been reported for their effect on reducing the metabolic power of human walking. Currently, most studies focus on uni-directional assistance (HF: hip flexion, or HE: hip extension). This paper investigates the effect of bi-
Qiang Chen +5 more
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A Critical Review on Factors Affecting the User Adoption of Wearable and Soft Robotics
Sensors, 2023 In recent years, the advent of soft robotics has changed the landscape of wearable technologies. Soft robots are highly compliant and malleable, thus ensuring safe human-machine interactions.
Benjamin Wee Keong Ang +2 more
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Ankle-targeted exosuit resistance increases paretic propulsion in people post-stroke
Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, 2023 Background Individualized, targeted, and intense training is the hallmark of successful gait rehabilitation in people post-stroke. Specifically, increasing use of the impaired ankle to increase propulsion during the stance phase of gait has been linked ...
Krithika Swaminathan +9 more
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A Wearable Soft Robotic Exoskeleton for Hip Flexion Rehabilitation
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2022 Leg motion is essential to everyday tasks, yet many face a daily struggle due to leg motion impairment. Traditional robotic solutions for lower limb rehabilitation have arisen, but they may bare some limitations due to their cost.
Tiana M. Miller-Jackson +11 more
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Design Optimization of Soft Fabric Pneumatic Actuators
Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.This study presents a systematic optimization framework for elongating and bending fabric‐based soft pneumatic actuators. After a preliminary design‐space reduction, the framework minimizes energy consumption under mechanical performance constraints by integrating validated finite element modeling with statistical surrogate models. Optimal designs were
Grigorios M. Chatziathanasiou +2 more
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Smart Closed‐Loop Systems in Personalized Healthcare: Advances and Outlook
Advanced Materials Technologies, Volume 11, Issue 12, 18 June 2026.A smart closed‐loop e‐textile integrates multimodal sensing, onboard processing, wireless communication, and wearable power to enable real‐time physiological/biochemical monitoring and feedback‐controlled therapy. ABSTRACT Smart textiles represent a revolutionary frontier in healthcare, seamlessly blending fabric and advanced technologies to create ...
Safoora Khosravi +12 more
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