robotic exoskeleton
Outcome Measures with COPM of Children using a Wilmington Robotic Exoskeleton
... Children with these diseases are extremely adaptive, but their long-term spine health remains a concern when the trunk and neck are repeatedly flexed to compensate for upper extremity weakness (Strehle, 2009). The ...
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The H2 robotic exoskeleton for gait rehabilitation after stroke: early findings from a clinical study
... Background: Stroke significantly affects thousands of individuals annually, leading to considerable physical impairment and functional disability. Gait is one of the most important activities of daily living affected in ...
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Movement kinematics and proprioception in post-stroke spasticity: assessment using the Kinarm robotic exoskeleton
... contrast, robotic technologies may provide infor- mation on the specific features of functional movement that are impaired after stroke ...Kinarm robotic exoskeleton has been used as a probe of upper ...
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Accelerometry-enabled measurement of walking performance with a robotic exoskeleton: a pilot study
... in the community with a robotic exoskeleton. We used a simple sensor to infer relevant quantitative data about walking skills in individuals with complete SCI and were able to track their progress over ...
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Modifying upper-limb inter-joint coordination in healthy subjects by training with a robotic exoskeleton
... an exoskeleton with multiple coupled parts and joint level interactions (a 7-DOF Sarcos Master Arm robotic ...the exoskeleton to per- turb the elbow flexion/extension, during point-to-point reaching ...
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Positive effects of robotic exoskeleton training of upper limb reaching movements after stroke
... active robotic exoskeleton, that can provide ei- ther active guidance during the execution of some exer- cise or gravity support for the weight ...The exoskeleton has four actuated Degrees of Freedom ...
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Inter-rater reliability of kinesthetic measurements with the KINARM robotic exoskeleton
... a robotic task to evaluate kinesthetic deficits after stroke and found that the majority (~60%) of stroke survivors exhibit significant deficits in kinesthesia within the first 10 days ...this robotic ...
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Analysis of relative displacement between the HX wearable robotic exoskeleton and the user’s hand
... the robotic architecture with passive degrees of freedom (DoFs) is a widely used method to achieve enhanced wearability and compliance towards the user’s anthropometry ...hand exoskeleton HX [12,13]: its ...
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KAPS (kinematic assessment of passive stretch): a tool to assess elbow flexor and extensor spasticity after stroke using a robotic exoskeleton
... servo-controlled robotic device capable of applying ramp and hold move- ments to the upper extremity that quantified the angle at which reflex torque and EMG begin to increase in re- sponse to stretch ...
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The Acute Effects of a Robotic Exoskeleton Leg Orthosis on Balance, Gait, and Sit to Stand Function as well as Technology Usage Attitude Among Older Adults
... This resulted in increased or slower times on the SPPB because they had to allow the Bionic Leg to fully extend their knee during the terminal stance phase of gait. Minimal positive clinical changes were measured in the ...
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Overground walking with a robotic exoskeleton elicits trunk muscle activity in people with high-thoracic motor-complete spinal cord injury
... In this study, there were two Ekso-assisted walking conditions: Ekso-OG in which the participants walked overground and used a front-wheeled walker, and Ekso-TM in which they walked over[r] ...
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PubMedCentral-PMC4874912.pdf
... kinematics and kinetics during walking at 1.25 m/s remain invariant in the context of elastic ankle exoskeletons. While there is strong evidence that humans do indeed exhibit invariance in ankle joint moments during ...
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Novel swing-assist un-motorized exoskeletons for gait training
... the exoskeleton was working completely according to the intended design, one would expect to see that the joint torques in (i) are closer to zero, or much less com- pared to those predicted in ...the ...
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Performance of a Powered Ankle Exoskeleton Using Neuromuscular Model-Based Control over a Range of Walking Speeds.
... ankle exoskeleton caused the greatest reduction in metabolic energy consumption when actuation was initiated at 43% of the stride cycle, instead of the biologically typical ...their exoskeleton produced no ...
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Design Of Lower Limb Exoskeleton Robot
... Actuators are the device that provide motion for the exoskeleton and hence support the wearer’s limb motion. It takes the command from the controller and provides motion according to the requirement at a certain ...
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Developing An Exoskeleton-Wheelchair Designed For Tetraplegic Patients
... the exoskeleton system, ...for Exoskeleton Robots ...the exoskeleton system ...the exoskeleton-I (ALEX-I) ...MGA exoskeleton In the proposed system, we propose a novel strategy of ...
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Ironman Project - Design Of Electro-Mechanical Muscle For Elbow Exoskeleton Robot
... upper-limb exoskeleton robot depends on the ...limb exoskeleton robots, since the size of the existing motors which can generates required upper-limb joint torques are rather ...upper-limb ...
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Mechanics and energetics of post-stroke walking aided by a powered ankle exoskeleton with speed-adaptive myoelectric control
... ankle exoskeleton was shown to increase the paretic plantarflexion moment for persons post-stroke walking at 75% of their comfor- table overground (OVG) speed [8]; despite these improve- ments, assistance did not ...
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Muscle–tendon mechanics explain unexpected effects of exoskeleton assistance on metabolic rate during walking
... estimated exoskeleton-side soleus metabolic rate; estimated contralateral limb vastus metabolic rate; estimated metabolic rate of the sum of the remaining muscles with electromyographic data; estimated percentage ...
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Feasibility of robotic surgery in a developing country, a public sector perspective
... There was 1(0.8%) instance of technical failure when the 4th arm failed but the procedure continued with 3 arms. There were 7(5.88%) conversions to open surgery during the initial training phase of robotic surgery ...
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