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3 Toward a Human-Friendly User Interface to Control an Assistive Robot in the Context of Smart Homes
The design of robot dedicated to person with disabilities necessitates users implication in all steps of product development: design solution,...
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21 Newly Designed Rehabilitation Robot System for Walking-Aid
The increase in the life span of many elderly people means that there are more demands for aids to support them in normal life [11]. Previous efforts...
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16 Design and Testing of WREX
A passive gravity-balanced, 4 DoF arm orthosis was built for children with arm weakness such as in muscular dystrophy. The orthosis is identically...
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25 Post Stroke Shoulder-Elbow Physiotherapy with Industrial Robots
Robotic motor rehabilitation is a promising approach to rehabilitation of post stroke, traumatic brain injury, and spinal cord injury neuromotor...
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17 A Concept for Control of Indoor-Operated Autonomous Wheelchair
The present chapter introduces a navigation algorithm for a wheelchair in semistructured home environment. The user sets the end position and...
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18 Design of an Intelligent Wheelchair for the Motor Disabled
As rehabilitation technologies such as robotics, artificial intelligence, and computer science have been rapidly developed, the dream of overcoming...
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8 Selectable Operating Interfaces of the Meal-Assistance Device “My Spoon”
Eating is a basic need for humans. In fact, it is so basic that most people are not aware of the motions that they use while eating. For some...
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20 Human-Friendly Care Robot System for the Elderly
In this paper, “Do-u-mi”, a robotic care system is introduced (Do-u-mi means “helper” in Korean) (see Fig. 20.1). It is particularly aimed at the...
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24 A Wrist Extension for MIT-MANUS
In 1991, a novel robot named MIT-MANUS was introduced as a test bed to study the potential of using robots to assist in and quantify the...
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19 Electrically Assisted Walker with Supporter-Embedded Force-Sensing Device
An electrically assisted walking aid with a force-sensing device embedded in its supporting arm has been developed. The force sensor consists of a...
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27 Great Expectations for Rehabilitation Mechatronics in the Coming Decade
This paper discusses the opportunities in the future for applications of mechatronics in rehabilitation. Trends in demographics, computer science and...
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Evidence Based Telemedicine
This chapter focuses on evidence based telemedicine and its various applications. Evidence based medicine is the integration of best research...
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Virtual Communities in Health Care
A virtual community is a social entity involving several individuals who relate to one another by the use of a specific communication technology that...
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Large-Scale Production of Hairy Root
Many products of interest are synthesized in organized tissues, but not formed in suspension or callus culture. Therefore, most attention has been...
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Advances in Inorganic Fibers
Many types of ceramic fibers have been developed over the last 60 years. Of these, carbon fiber has grown into a large market involving...
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Enzymatic Synthesis of Structured Lipids
Structured lipids (SLs) are defined as lipids that are modified chemically or enzymatically in order to change their structure. This review deals...
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Self-Assembling Nanopeptides Become a New Type of Biomaterial
Combining physics, engineering, chemistry and biology, we can now design, synthesize and fabricate biological nano-materials at the molecular...
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Modulating Extracellular Matrix at Interfaces of Polymeric Materials
As extracellular matrices (ECM) closely interact with cells in living tissues and, through this, influence essentially any aspect of life...
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Novel elastomeric spiropyran-doped poly(dimethylsiloxane) optical waveguide for UV sensing
Novel poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) doped with two different spiropyran derivatives (SP) were investigated as potential candidates for the...
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Research-based learning as an innovative approach for teaching students of environmental engineering: a case study of the emerging field of microplastics in soil
We implemented research-based learning (RBL) as an alternative to traditional frontal classroom lectures and laboratory sessions to impart knowledge...
