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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Brain-Machine Interface Architecture to Control an Upper Limb Rehabilitation Exoskeleton
The combination of Brain-Machine Interfaces (BMIs) with assistive technologies has seen a rapid development during the last few years. Regarding post-stroke rehabilitation, the BMI could be combined with other...
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Chapter
Upper Limb Neuroprostheses: Recent Advances and Future Directions
This review covers the main issues related to the various therapeutic modalities that aim to immediately recover the lost/diminished motor function or resulting carryover effects in patients after a central ne...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Knee Muscle Fatigue Estimation during Isometric Artificially Elicited Contractions in Incomplete Spinal Cord Injured Subjects
Muscle fatigue due to functional electrical stimulation still prevents its widespread use as a gait rehabilitation tool for Spinal Cord Injured subjects. Although there is an active research towards optimizati...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Does Anode Position and Electrode Impedance Affect Muscle Selectivity in Upper Limb sFES?
Muscle selectivity during sFES in upper limb is an issue because of the presence of the “overflow” phenomenon. Surface electrodes array can augment muscle selectivity by generating an irregular electric field ...