A systematic review of technological advancements in signal sensing, actuation, control and training methods in robotic exoskeletons for rehabilitation

M Mathew, MJ Thomas, MG Navaneeth… - Industrial Robot: the …, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this review paper is to address the substantial challenges of the
outdated exoskeletons used for rehabilitation and further study the current advancements in …

State-of-the-art robotic devices for wrist rehabilitation: Design and control aspects

S Hussain, PK Jamwal, P Van Vliet… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robot-assisted physical therapy of the upper limb is becoming popular among the
rehabilitation community. The wrist is the second most complicated joint in the upper limb …

Lower limb exoskeleton with compliant actuators: Design, modeling, and human torque estimation

L Bergmann, O Lück, D Voss… - IEEE/ASME …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Active lower limb exoskeletons are increasingly used in rehabilitation therapy. An important
aspect and ongoing research topic in developing such assistive devices is safe human …

Design and performance analysis of a parallel wrist rehabilitation robot (PWRR)

L Zhang, J Li, Y Cui, M Dong, B Fang… - Robotics and Autonomous …, 2020 - Elsevier
Wrist rehabilitation robots are essential for assisting patients with stoke or wrist injuries.
Such devices compensate for deficiencies in manual rehabilitation training, and reduce the …

A compact wrist rehabilitation robot with accurate force/stiffness control and misalignment adaptation

YY Su, YL Yu, CH Lin, CC Lan - International Journal of Intelligent …, 2019 - Springer
Robots have been demonstrated to assist the rehabilitation of patients with upper or lower
limb disabilities. To make exoskeleton robots more friendly and accessible to patients, they …

[HTML][HTML] Design and assist-as-needed control of flexible elbow exoskeleton actuated by nonlinear series elastic cable driven mechanism

B Hu, F Zhang, H Lu, H Zou, J Yang, H Yu - Actuators, 2021 - mdpi.com
Exoskeletons can assist the daily life activities of the elderly with weakened muscle strength,
but traditional rigid exoskeletons bring parasitic torque to the human joints and easily …

Joint torque estimation for the human arm from sEMG using backpropagation neural networks and autoencoders

Y Huang, K Chen, X Zhang, K Wang, J Ota - Biomedical Signal Processing …, 2020 - Elsevier
Estimation of joint torque for human arm is important to help a robot adapt to a human
partner in human-robot collaboration. In this study, we proposed an estimating model …

Analysis of dynamic behavior of parreex robot used in upper limb rehabilitation

D Tarnita, ID Geonea, D Pisla, G Carbone… - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
This paper presents a dynamic analysis of the ParReEx multibody mechanism, which has
been designed for human wrist joint rehabilitation. The starting point of the research is a …

Disturbance observer applications in rehabilitation robotics: an overview

A Mohammadi, H Dallali - Powered prostheses, 2020 - Elsevier
Numerous robotic devices have been developed for patient rehabilitation and physical
assistance. Developing efficient and safe control algorithms for having seamless interaction …

A novel 3-RRR spherical parallel instrument for daily living emulation (SPINDLE) for functional rehabilitation of patients with stroke

P He, NT Kantu, B Xu, CP Swami… - International …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Various robotic rehabilitation devices have been developed for acute stroke patients to ease
therapist's efforts and provide high-intensity training, which resulted in improved strength …