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15 Experimental Analysis of the Proprioceptive and Exteroceptive Sensors of an Underactuated Prosthetic Hand
The development of a prosthetic hand able to replicate as much as possible the gras** and sensory features of the natural hand represents an...
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22 A Gentle/S Approach to Robot Assisted Neuro-Rehabilitation
Movement disorders (MD) include a group of neurological disorders that involve neuromotor systems. MD can result in several abnormalities ranging...
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23 Wire Driven Robots for Rehabilitation
In the last decades many attempts were made to employ robots or automatic mechanisms in the field of rehabilitation. In particular, orthopaedic...
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9 Enhancing the Usability of the MANUS Manipulator by Using Visual Servoing
Controlling MANUS, a wheelchair-mounted manipulator, can put a high cognitive load on the end user. Visual servoing techniques can help to reduce...
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Random Voronoi Ensembles for Gene Selection in DNA Microarray Data
Currently, cancer and other complex pathologies are analyzed mainly by morphological classification. In the past few decades there have been dramatic...
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Cancer Classification with Microarray Data Using Support Vector Machines
Microarrays (Schena et al. 1995) are also called gene chips or DNA chips. On a microarray chip, there are thousands of spots. Each spot contains the...
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Class Prediction with Microarray Datasets
Microarray technology is having a significant impact in the biological and medical sciences and class prediction will play an increasingly important...
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Multimedia Communication System for the Blind
A Multimedia communication system for blind users is developed. The system is named MIMIZU and its terminal is composed of a refreshable tactile...
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Gait Training System for Computer-aided Rehabilitation
This Gait Training system is designed to simulate the effects of gait training in a swimming pool. The weight of the subject is supported by a...
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Electronic Locomotion Aids for the Blind: Towards More Assistive Systems
This chapter first presents a review of existing locomotion assistance devices for the blind. These devices are merely proximeters, that measure the...
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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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7 Cooperative Welfare Robot System Using Hand Gesture Instructions
This paper explains the cooperative work system between manipulators and humans using hand gesture instructions. The goal of our system is that the...
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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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A Dynamic Model of Gene Regulatory Networks Based on Inertia Principle
In molecular biology, functions are produced by a set of macromolecules that interact at different levels. Genes and their products, proteins,...
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4. Intelligent Control of Mobile Robots with Fuzzy Perception
This chapter focuses on the intelligent control of vehicles with nonholonomic constraints. The proposed method is based on the computation of a fuzzy...
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Toward Complete Path Planning for Planar 3R-Manipulators Among Point Obstacles
The problem of a planning collision-free motion of a planar 3R-manipulator among point obstacles is studied using techniques from topology and...
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Fast Tree-Based Exploration of State Space for Robots with Dynamics
This paper presents a new motion planning algorithm which we call the Path-Directed Subdivision Tree exploration Planner PDST-EXPLORE. It is a...
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Competitive Complexity of Mobile Robot On Line Motion Planning Problems
This paper is concerned with on-line problems where a mobile robot of size D has to achieve a task in an unknown planar environment whose geometry is...