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Yong Tao, Yuanlong Ji, Dongming Han, He Gao and Tianmiao Wang
Existing studies on rehabilitation robots are generally devoted to robot-assisted active rehabilitation training, which is conducive to facilitating muscle and nerve regeneration. However, human?robot interaction (HRI) requires imposing a limit on the wo...
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Francesco Scotto di Luzio, Francesca Cordella, Marco Bravi, Fabio Santacaterina, Federica Bressi, Silvia Sterzi and Loredana Zollo
The central nervous system (CNS) is able to control a very high number of degrees of freedom to perform complex movements of both upper and lower limbs. However, what strategies the CNS adopts to perform complex tasks are not completely clear and are sti...
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Daniela Tarnita, Ionut Daniel Geonea, Doina Pisla, Giuseppe Carbone, Bogdan Gherman, Nicoleta Tohanean, Paul Tucan, Cristian Abrudan and Danut Nicolae Tarnita
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 virtual prototype of the ParReEx multibody mechanism. This model is used to s...
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Kai Guo, Jingxin Lu, Chang Liu and Hongbo Yang
As one of the most influential symptoms of daily life after stroke, hand dysfunction has seriously affected the quality of life of patients and families. At present, the commonly used rehabilitation method is to carry out continuous passive training on t...
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Ferdaws Ennaiem, Abdelbadiâ Chaker, Med Amine Laribi, Juan Sandoval, Sami Bennour, Abdelfattah Mlika, Lotfi Romdhane and Saïd Zeghloul
This paper deals with the optimal design of a planar cable-driven parallel robot (CDPR), with three degrees of freedom, intended for assisting the patient?s affected upper limb along a prescribed movement. A Qualisys motion capture system was used to rec...
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Óscar G. Hernández, Vicente Morell, José L. Ramon and Carlos A. Jara
The proposed technology is useful for the estimation of human biomarkers in rehabilitation processes or for any application that needs human pose estimation.
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Zaixiang Pang, Tongyu Wang, Zhanli Wang, Junzhi Yu, Zhongbo Sun and Shuai Liu
Nowadays, patients with mild and moderate upper limb paralysis caused by cerebral apoplexy are uncomfortable with autonomous rehabilitation. In this paper, according to the ?rope + toothed belt? generalized rope drive design scheme, we design a utility m...
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Yassine Bouteraa, Ismail Ben Abdallah, Atef Ibrahim and Tariq Ahamed Ahanger
The last few years have seen significant advances in neuromotor rehabilitation technologies, such as robotics and virtual reality. Rehabilitation robotics primarily focuses on devices, control strategies, scenarios and protocols aimed at recovering senso...
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Gustaw Rzyman, Jacek Szkopek, Grzegorz Redlarski and Aleksander Palkowski
Using robotics in modern medicine is slowly becoming a common practice. However, there are still important life science fields which are currently devoid of such advanced technology. A noteworthy example of a life sciences field which would benefit from ...
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Jonathan A. Casas, Nathalia Céspedes, Carlos A. Cifuentes, Luisa F. Gutierrez, Mónica Rincón-Roncancio and Marcela Múnera
Currently, Social Assistive Robotics (SAR) is widely explored in different areas and scenarios. In cardiac rehabilitation, SAR has been recently implemented as a tool to improve the quality of the procedures and support patients to boost their performanc...
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Valeria Falzarano, Francesca Marini, Pietro Morasso and Jacopo Zenzeri
Neuromotor disorders negatively affect the sensorimotor system, limiting the ability to perform daily activities autonomously. Rehabilitation of upper limb impairments is therefore essential to improve independence and quality of life. In the last two de...
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Riccardo Iandolo, Francesca Marini, Marianna Semprini, Matteo Laffranchi, Maddalena Mugnosso, Amel Cherif, Lorenzo De Michieli, Michela Chiappalone and Jacopo Zenzeri
The development of robotic devices for rehabilitation is a fast-growing field. Nowadays, thanks to novel technologies that have improved robots? capabilities and offered more cost-effective solutions, robotic devices are increasingly being employed durin...
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Hyung Seok Nam, Nhayoung Hong, Minwoo Cho, Chiwon Lee, Han Gil Seo and Sungwan Kim
The main contribution of this study is the development of a novel concept of a rehabilitation robot for stroke, helping to close the neuro-feedback loop. To facilitate neuroplasticity, a vision-assisted control algorithm was implemented to meet user-inte...
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Zengqi Peng and Jian Huang
Rehabilitation and nursing-care robots have become one of the prevalent methods for assistant treatment of motor disorder patients in the field of medical rehabilitation. Traditional rehabilitation robots are mostly made of rigid materials, which signifi...
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Shanhai Jin, Xiaogang Xiong, Dejin Zhao, Changfu Jin and Motoji Yamamoto
As a walking assistive device for elderly persons, one of the major aims should be to improve and rehabilitate gait characteristics after long-term repeated use of the device. However, most of the existing research on walking assistive devices only empha...
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Xiong Yang, Haotian She, Haojian Lu, Toshio Fukuda and Yajing Shen
The bipedal robot is one of the most attractive robots types given its similarity to the locomotion of human beings and its ability to assist people to walk during rehabilitation. This review summarizes the chronological historical development of bipedal...
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Tzu-Heng Hsu, Yen-Cheng Chiang, Wei-Tun Chan and Shih-Jui Chen
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Leire Lopez-Samaniego and Begonya Garcia-Zapirain
This publication presents a complete description of a technological solution system for the physical and cognitive rehabilitation of elderly people through a biofeedback system, which is combined with a Lego robot. The technology used was the iOS?s (iPho...
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Toma? Kosar, Zhenli Lu, Marjan Mernik, Marjan Horvat and Matej Crepin?ek
Rehabilitation aids help people with temporal or permanent disabilities during the rehabilitation process. However, these solutions are usually expensive and, consequently, inaccessible outside of professional medical institutions. Rapid advances in soft...
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Marco Iosa, Alex Martino Cinnera, Fioravante Capone, Alessandro Cruciani, Matteo Paolucci, Vincenzo Di Lazzaro, Stefano Paolucci and Giovanni Morone
In the past two decades, many studies reported the efficacy of upper limb robotic rehabilitation in patients after stroke, also in its chronic phase. Among the possible advantages of robotic therapy over conventional therapy are the objective measurement...
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