A review in gait rehabilitation devices and applied control techniques

SL Chaparro-Cárdenas… - Disability and …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose: The aim of this review is to analyse the different existing technologies for gait
rehabilitation, focusing mainly in robotic devices. Those robots help the patient to recover a …

Haptics-enabled interactive neurorehabilitation mechatronics: classification, functionality, challenges and ongoing research

SF Atashzar, M Shahbazi, RV Patel - Mechatronics, 2019 - Elsevier
This review paper defines NeuroRehabilitation Mechatronics (NRM) as an overlap between
two areas of applied science: Bio-mechatronics and Neural Engineering. NRM is an …

Robotic assistance for training finger movement using a hebbian model: a randomized controlled trial

JB Rowe, V Chan, ML Ingemanson… - … and neural repair, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Background. Robots that physically assist movement are increasingly used in rehabilitation
therapy after stroke, yet some studies suggest robotic assistance discourages effort and …

Parallel robot for lower limb rehabilitation exercises

A Rastegarpanah, M Saadat… - Applied Bionics and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The aim of this study is to investigate the capability of a 6‐DoF parallel robot to perform
various rehabilitation exercises. The foot trajectories of twenty healthy participants have …

Therapist-patient interactions in task-oriented stroke therapy can guide robot-patient interactions

MJ Johnson, M Mohan, R Mendonca - International Journal of Social …, 2022 - Springer
Autonomous and semi-autonomous robots have been increasingly proposed as social and
therapy assistants for neurorehabilitation after traumatic and non-traumatic brain injury …

BCI-based control for ankle exoskeleton T-FLEX: comparison of visual and haptic stimuli with stroke survivors

P Barria, A Pino, N Tovar, D Gomez-Vargas, K Baleta… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Brain–computer interface (BCI) remains an emerging tool that seeks to improve the patient
interaction with the therapeutic mechanisms and to generate neuroplasticity progressively …

Using potential field function with a velocity field controller to learn and reproduce the therapist's assistance in robot-assisted rehabilitation

M Najafi, C Rossa, K Adams… - IEEE/ASME Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Rehabilitative and assistive practices usually elicit intense and repetitive exercises. Thus,
there has been an increasing interest in robotic systems as they are robust and cost-effective …

A computational-model-based study of supervised haptics-enabled therapist-in-the-loop training for upper-limb poststroke robotic rehabilitation

SF Atashzar, M Shahbazi, M Tavakoli… - … ASME Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a new framework for neural-network-based supervised training of
intensity and strategy for upper-limb haptics-enabled robotic neurorehabilitation systems for …

A potential energy shaping controller with ground reaction force feedback for a multi-activity knee-ankle exoskeleton

NV Divekar, J Lin, C Nesler, S Borboa… - 2020 8th IEEE RAS …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents the design and implementation of a novel multi-activity control strategy
for a backdrivable knee-ankle exoskeleton. Traditionally, exoskeletons have used trajectory …

Preliminary design of an Intention-based sEMG-controlled 3 DOF upper limb exoskeleton for assisted therapy in activities of daily life in patients with hemiparesis

N Johan, S Axel, C Edmar, C Daryl… - 2020 8th IEEE RAS …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Assisted therapy in activities of daily life is a method in which through repeated movements,
patients are able to recover gradually their range of motion. We have focused on re-learning …