Walking on Real-world Terrain with an Ankle Exoskeleton in Cerebral Palsy

EA Tagoe, Y Fang, JR Williams… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Despite medical treatment focused on addressing walking disability, many millions of people
with neurological conditions, like cerebral palsy (CP), struggle to maintain independent …

Recent advances in wearable actuated ankle-foot orthoses: Medical effects, design, and control

Y Zhou - Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper presents a survey on recent advances of wearable actuated ankle-foot orthoses
(AAFOs). First of all, their medical functions are investigated. From the short-term aspect …

Adaptive Admittance Control Strategy for a Robotic Knee Exoskeleton With a Nonlinear Variable Stiffness Actuator

B Chen, L Zhou, B Zi, E Li… - IEEE/ASME Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents the design and control of a robotic knee exoskeleton for gait
rehabilitation of patients with knee joint impairments. First, the hardware design of the …

Feasibility evaluation of a dual-mode ankle exoskeleton to assist and restore community ambulation in older adults

Y Fang, K Harshe, JR Franz, ZF Lerner - Wearable technologies, 2022 - cambridge.org
BackgroundAge-related deficits in plantar flexor muscle function during the push-off phase
of walking likely contribute to the decline in mobility that affects many older adults. New …

Advances on mechanical designs for assistive ankle-foot orthoses

JS Lora-Millan, M Nabipour… - … in bioengineering and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Assistive ankle-foot orthoses (AAFOs) are powerful solutions to assist or rehabilitate gait on
humans. Existing AAFO technologies include passive, quasi-passive, and active principles …

Comparing the effectiveness of robotic plantarflexion resistance and biofeedback between overground and treadmill walking

CD Bowersock, ZF Lerner - Journal of Biomechanics, 2024 - Elsevier
Individuals with diminished walking performance caused by neuromuscular impairments
often lack plantar flexion muscle activity. Robotic devices have been developed to address …

Simplified Motor Primitives for Gait Symmetrization: Pilot Study with an Active Hip Orthosis

H Laloyaux, C Livolsi, A Pergolini… - … on Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Lower-limb exoskeletons are wearable devices whose main purposes are human
rehabilitation and bilateral locomotion assistance. In particular, there is a growing interest for …

Use of Biomedical Engineering for Rehabilitation of Patients with Disability Caused by Guillain-Barré Syndrome: a Systematic Review

AB Torres-Reyes, I Reyes-Hernández… - Revista Mexicana de …, 2024 - rmib.com.mx
This systematic review aims to assess the extent to which biomedical engineering has been
applied in the rehabilitation of patients suffering from Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS), given …

Human-Mechanical Biomechanical Analysis of a Novel Knee Exoskeleton Robot for Rehabilitation Training

M Yan, G Gao, X Chen, Y Xing, S Lu - The International Conference on …, 2023 - Springer
Exoskeleton robots are a new kind of wearable assistive and rehabilitation training
equipment, with user adaptability and assistive effectiveness being important performance …