-
Article
Open AccessRobotic exoskeleton embodiment in post-stroke hemiparetic patients: an experimental study about the integration of the assistance provided by the REFLEX knee exoskeleton
Hemiparetic gait is the most common motor-disorder after stroke and, in spite of rehabilitation efforts, it is persistent in 50% of community dwelling stroke-survivors. Robotic exoskeletons have been proposed ...
-
Article
Open AccessPerspectives on ankle-foot technology for improving gait performance of children with Cerebral Palsy in daily-life: requirements, needs and wishes
Ankle-foot orthoses (AFOs) are extensively used as a primary management method to assist ambulation of children with Cerebral Palsy (CP). However, there are certain barriers that hinder their prescription as w...
-
Article
Open AccessA unilateral robotic knee exoskeleton to assess the role of natural gait assistance in hemiparetic patients
Hemiparetic gait is characterized by strong asymmetries that can severely affect the quality of life of stroke survivors. This type of asymmetry is due to motor deficits in the paretic leg and the resulting co...
-
Article
Open AccessAI-enabled photonic smart garment for movement analysis
Smart textiles are novel solutions for remote healthcare monitoring which involve non-invasive sensors-integrated clothing. Polymer optical fiber (POF) sensors have attractive features for smart textile techno...
-
Chapter and Conference Paper
Feature Consistency Criterion for Motor Imagery-Based Neuromodulation
Motor imagery (MI) has been increasingly studied for neurorehabilitation purposes. However, issues such as large intra- and inter-subject variability still limit its practical, and more clinical, applications....
-
Chapter and Conference Paper
Robotic Rehabilitation in Cerebral Palsy: A Case Report
Cerebral palsy includes several posture and movement disorders which produce limitations in functional activities such as gait. In recent years robotics have been used as a complement of the treatment of neuro...
-
Chapter
Impedance Control Strategies for Lower-Limb Exoskeletons
In the last decades, researchers have used the physical-Human–Robot-interaction (pHRI) to develop rehabilitation and assistance wearable robots. The control strategies implementation based on impedance control...
-
Chapter and Conference Paper
Machine Support to Discrimination of Parkinson’s Disease and Essential Tremor
Pathological tremor is a common but also highly complex movement disorder, affecting about 5% of population over the age of 65. Different methodologies have been proposed for its quantification and analysis. ...
-
Article
Open AccessMechanical vibration does not systematically reduce the tremor in essential tremor patients
Essential tremor (ET) is a major cause of disability and is not effectively managed in half of the patients. We investigated whether mechanical vibration could reduce tremor in ET by selectively recruiting aff...
-
Article
Open AccessEvaluation of biomechanical gait parameters of patients with Cerebral Palsy at three different levels of gait assistance using the CPWalker
Cerebral Palsy (CP) is the most common cause of permanent serious physical disability in childhood. Although many platforms have been developed, so far there are still not precise guidelines for the rehabilita...
-
Chapter and Conference Paper
An Optimization Approach to Design Control Strategies for Soft Wearable Passive Exoskeletons
Soft assistive devices constitute a promising alternative to help people with mobility impairments. Nevertheless, some issues as the control of these systems preclude from their generalized usage in common da...
-
Chapter and Conference Paper
XoSoft Connected Monitor (XCM) Unsupervised Monitoring and Feedback in Soft Exoskeletons of 3D Kinematics, Kinetics, Behavioral Context and Control System Status
Intelligent soft exoskeletons are developed to be used unsupervised and continuously on a large scale in normal daily situations. As they miss the stiffness of the structural components of traditional robotic ...
-
Article
Open AccessA robot-based gait training therapy for pediatric population with cerebral palsy: goal setting, proposal and preliminary clinical implementation
The use of robotic trainers has increased with the aim of improving gait function in patients with limitations. Nevertheless, there is an absence of studies that deeply describe detailed guidelines of how to c...
-
Article
Open AccessEvaluation of cervical posture improvement of children with cerebral palsy after physical therapy based on head movements and serious games
This paper presents the preliminary results of a novel rehabilitation therapy for cervical and trunk control of children with cerebral palsy (CP) based on serious videogames and physical exercise.
-
Article
Open AccessA data mining approach using cortical thickness for diagnosis and characterization of essential tremor
Essential tremor (ET) is one of the most prevalent movement disorders. Being that it is a common disorder, its diagnosis is considered routine. However, misdiagnoses may occur regularly. Over the past decade, ...
-
Article
Open AccessGlobal Kalman filter approaches to estimate absolute angles of lower limb segments
In this paper we propose the use of global Kalman filters (KFs) to estimate absolute angles of lower limb segments. Standard approaches adopt KFs to improve the performance of inertial sensors based on individ...
-
Chapter and Conference Paper
Neural Control of Muscles in Tremor Patients
Essential tremor and Parkinson’s disease cause abnormal oscillatory activity in a variety of brain structures that is transmitted to spinal motoneurons and generates tremor. Because the motoneuron pool integra...
-
Chapter and Conference Paper
Wearable Robotic Walker for Gait Rehabilitation and Assistance in Patients with Cerebral Palsy
Cerebral Palsy (CP) is the most common cause of permanent serious physical disability in childhood. New strategies are needed to help promote, maintain, and rehabilitate the functional capacity of children wit...
-
Chapter and Conference Paper
Non-supervised Feature Selection: Evaluation in a BCI for Single-Trial Recognition of Gait Preparation/Stop
Is presented a non-supervised method for feature selection based on similarity index, which is applied in a brain-computer interface (BCI) to recognize gait preparation/stops. Maximal information compression i...
-
Chapter and Conference Paper
XoSoft - A Vision for a Soft Modular Lower Limb Exoskeleton
XoSoft is an EU project that proposes the development of a modular soft lower-limb exoskeleton to assist people with mobility impairments. It aims to be user friendly and comfortable to wear, with a significan...
