The study of lower extremity exoskeleton robots has been pursued for many years and is
now receiving significant attention. A number of review articles have focused on describing …

A novel approach to functional task-based gait assistance control architecture and its
preliminary evaluations are presented. This approach utilizes a finite state machine to …

With the significant increase of social aging trend, the defecation and control ability of the
elderly has become an important issue in the field of elderly rehabilitation. This paper …

In this paper, we propose and analyze a Regenerative Magnetorheological Actuator
(RMRA) for gait assistance in knee joint. The actuator has motor and magnetorheological …

With the significant increase in the trend of aging society, the ability of elderly people to
control bowel movements has become an important issue in the field of elderly …

Walking disturbance is one of the dysfunctions caused by stroke. In walking rehabilitation, it
is common to shift to an ankle-foot-orthosis after using a knee-ankle-foot-orthosis for patients …

Mobility impairment problems have greatly reduced life qualities of many patients suffering
from various injuries and diseases. In recent years, robotic assistive devices have been …

The analysis of movements has been applied to various fields. However, they are typically
only in the form of visual or analytical data from a motion analyzer. Users are unable to feel …