A cerebrovascular accident, or a stroke, can cause significant neurological damage,
inflicting the patient with loss of motor function in their hands. Standard rehabilitation therapy …

It has been widely recognized that closed-loop neuroprosthetic systems achieve more
favorable outcomes for users then equivalent open-loop devices. Improved performance of …

Iterative Learning Control (ILC) differs from most existing control methods in the sense that, it
exploits every possibility to incorporate past control informa tion, such as tracking errors and …

Hybrid terrain-adaptive lower-extremity apparatus and methods that perform in a variety of
different situations by detecting the terrain that is being traversed, and adapting to the …

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Functional electrical stimulation (FES) enables restoration of movement in individuals with
spinal cord injury. FES-based devices use electric current pulses to stimulate and excite the …

Knee joint angle and angular velocity were calculated in real time during standing up and
sitting down. Two small modules comprising rate gyroscopes and accelerometers were …

An exoskeleton worn by a human user consists of a rigid pelvic harness, worn about the
waist of the user, and exoskeleton leg structures, each of which extends downwardly …

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(51) Int. Cl. having at least one joint includes a finite state machine con G05B
2L/00(2006.01) figured to receive feedback data relating to the state of the A6F …