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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Rehabilitation Robotics"”.
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An artificial skeletal muscle for use in pediatric rehabilitation robotics
… far only a few studies have attempted to explore rehabilitation applications, and at a very preliminary level. ☐ The overall goal of this dissertation is to develop a powered unilateral exoskeleton using a commercially available DEA that works as “artificial skeletal muscle”, and thereby, assess …
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Home-based stroke rehabilitation robotics for the upper limb: User needs, design, and control
… to improve access to and availability of stroke rehabilitation. Most stroke survivors experience arm impairments following stroke that continue into the chronic phase of stroke, but many lack access to therapy post-discharge. Rehabilitation robots could address this need, but more research needs …
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Development Of Robot-Based Cognitive And Motor Assessment Tools For Stroke And Hiv Neurorehabilitation
… dysfunction associated with these conditions. Rehabilitation robotics has been explored as a solution to provide therapy in the stroke population, but its application to people living with HIV has not yet been examined. Additionally, current technology-based approaches generally tend to treat …
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Design, Characterization, and Validation of the OpenWrist Exoskeleton
… for use in long duration and high intensity rehabilitation needed for motor recovery after neurological injury. Targeted and coordinated hand and wrist therapy, often overlooked in rehabilitation robotics, is required to regain the ability to perform activities of daily living. To this end, a …
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Brain computer interface based neurorehabilitation technique using a commercially available EEG headset
Neurorehabilitation has recently been augmented with the use of virtual reality and rehabilitation robotics. In many systems, some known volitional control must exist in order to synchronize the user intended movement with the therapeutic virtual or robotic movement. Brain Computer Interface (BCI) …
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MIT Skywalker : a novel robot for gait rehabilitation of stroke and cerebral palsy patients
… and occupational therapy. Upper extremity rehabilitation robotics is well established and recommended by the American Heart Association, the Veterans Administration, and the Department of Defense; however, lower extremity rehabilitation robots are still in their infancy, so far leading to …
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Methods toward improved lower extremity rehabilitation
… mechanisms of walking and to develop tools for rehabilitation robotics that allow finer quantification of patient improvement. To elucidate the neural mechanisms of locomotion, we studied how task relevant information (e.g. positions, velocities, and forces) modulate single unit neural activity …
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Characterizing Mental Workload in Physical Human-Robot Interaction Using Eye-Tracking Measures
… eye-tracking is gaining traction in surgical/rehabilitation robotics domains, systematic investigations of eye tracking for studying interactions with industrial cobots are currently lacking. We conducted three studies in which participants of different ages and expertise levels learned to …
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3D Upper-extremity ExoNET: Improved Passive Exoskeleton for Gravity Compensation and Motor Rehabilitation
… and ergonomic solution designed for real world rehabilitation and daily assistance. Building on an optimization framework that refines key de sign parameters, the system allows seamless translation from simulation to hardware, ensuring that parameters such as spring stiffness, anchor geometry, …
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Multimodal series elastic actuator for human-machine interaction with applications in robot-aided rehabilitation
… the potential to be applied in robot-aided rehabilitation. This thesis proposes the design of a novel SEA to be used in robot-aided musculoskeletal rehabilitation. An active disturbance rejection controller is derived and experimentally validated and multiobjective optimization is executed …
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Development of a virtual reality video game using principal component analysis to map isometric force efforts for haptic feedback: A proof of concept
Cerebral palsy is a developmental movement disorder that is associated with antenatal, perinatal, or postnatal trauma to the central nervous system and manifests peripherally. The kind of cerebral palsy a person displays can be classified in multiple ways, focusing on the tonicity, movement …