A review of methods for achieving upper limb movement following spinal cord injury through hybrid muscle stimulation and robotic assistance

N Dunkelberger, EM Schearer, MK O'Malley - Experimental neurology, 2020 - Elsevier
Individuals with tetraplegia, typically attributed to spinal cord injuries (SCI) at the cervical
level, experience significant health care costs and loss of independence due to their limited …

Feedback control of functional electrical stimulation for 2-D arm reaching movements

RS Razavian, B Ghannadi, N Mehrabi… - … on Neural Systems …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Functional electrical stimulation (FES) can be used as a neuroprosthesis in which muscles
are stimulated by electrical pulses to compensate for the loss of voluntary movement control …

Trajectory optimization and model predictive control for functional electrical stimulation-controlled reaching

DN Wolf, EM Schearer - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Functional electrical stimulation (FES) offers promise as a technology to restore reaching
motions to individuals with spinal cord injuries. To date, the level of reaching necessary for …

Holding static arm configurations with functional electrical stimulation: A case study

DN Wolf, EM Schearer - IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Functional electrical stimulation (FES) is a promising solution for restoring functional motion
to individuals with paralysis, but the potential for achieving any desired full-arm reaching …

Omnidirectional endpoint force control through functional electrical stimulation

M Sierotowicz, C Castellini - Biomedical Physics & Engineering …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. In recent years, Functional Electrical Stimulation has found many applications
both within and outside the medical field. However, most available wearable FES devices …

Model learning for control of a paralyzed human arm with functional electrical stimulation

DN Wolf, ZA Hall, EM Schearer - 2020 IEEE International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Functional electrical stimulation (FES) is a promising technique for restoring reaching ability
to individuals with tetraplegia. To this point, the complexities of goal-directed reaching …

Robot-inspired human impedance control through functional electrical stimulation

M Sierotowicz, C Castellini - 2023 International Conference on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Functional Electrical Stimulation is an effective tool to foster rehabilitation of neurological
patients suffering from impaired motor functions. It can also serve as an assistive device to …

Learning dynamic systems using Gaussian process regression with analytic ordinary differential equations as prior information

S Tang, K Fujimoto, I Maruta - IEICE TRANSACTIONS on …, 2021 - search.ieice.org
Recently the data-driven learning of dynamic systems has become a promising approach
because no physical knowledge is needed. Pure machine learning approaches such as …

Multi Degree of Freedom Hybrid FES and Robotic Control of the Upper Limb

N Dunkelberger, SA Carlson, J Berning… - … on Neural Systems …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Individuals who have suffered a spinal cord injury often require assistance to complete daily
activities, and for individuals with tetraplegia, recovery of upper-limb function is among their …

Global system errors to simultaneously improve the identification of subsystems with mixed data Gaussian process regression

CJ LaMack, EM Schearer - Machine Learning: Science and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper explores the use of Gaussian process regression for system identification in
control engineering. It introduces two novel approaches that utilize the data from a …