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Chapter and Conference Paper
Investigation on Variable Impedance Control for Modulating Assistance in Walking Strategies with the AUTONOMYO Exoskeleton
Impedance based control is an established strategy to provide assist-as-needed power support in rehabilitation. The studied control in this paper differs, however, from the standard approach. Instead of follo...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Lower Limb Exoskeletons, from Specifications to Design
Lower limb exoskeletons are motorized and instrumented wearable devices rigidly interfaced with the wearer. Their roles are to assist walking or mobilize legs to make people walk.
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Preliminary Study: Effects of Visual Distortion on Standing Balance Motion Amplitude and Visual Dependency on an Unstable Surface
Visual feedback is a common method to enhance motor learning and is widely used in rehabilitation institutes. Although balance training with visual feedback has shown positive results, the most effective way t...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
HiBSO Hip Exoskeleton: Toward a Wearable and Autonomous Design
HiBSO is an active orthosis designed to assist the hip flexion-extension of the elderly. A fully autonomous system with untethered power electronics and energy supply is now available. Going beyond the restric...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
AUTONOMYO: Design Challenges of Lower Limb Assistive Device for Elderly People, Multiple Sclerosis and Neuromuscular Diseases
Lower limb wearable robotics also known as exoskeleton or power suit is a booming field of research. Potential medical applications cover a large range of gait disorders from rehabilitation to assistance in da...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Third Arm Manipulation for Surgical Applications: An Experimental Study
Surgeons need assistance in most types of surgery. This necessary teamwork is costly and can be a source of error and inefficiency due to communication problems such as a lack of coherence among the surgeon’s ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Series Elastic Actuation for Assistive Orthotic Devices: Case Study of Pneumatic Actuator
Wearable assistive robotics is a modern field where intelligent actuated systems work in collaboration with the body to replace a lost limb, to enhance performances (e.g. carrying load, walking, running, jumpi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Robotic Platform for Lower Limb Optical Motion Tracking in Open Space
Conventional human motion tracking techniques based on optical systems reports important limitations for mobile applications (e.g. small spatial covering, poor environment flexibility). The present paper addre...
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Chapter
Haptics in Robotics, Man–Machine Interface and Neuroscience
Up to now there have not been many connections between robotics and neurosciences. Robotics has developed well as an industrial topic, based on mechatronics. In the context of medical robotics, such a connecti...
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Chapter
Lower Limbs Robotic Rehabilitation Case Study with Clinical Trials
Robotic based lower limbs rehabilitation is addressed in this chapter. Different existing devices are presented to point out the context of mobilization of the limbs. The mechanical constructions of the system...
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Article
Pesticide Residue Levels in Green Beans Cultivated in Souss Masa Valley (Morocco) After Multiple Applications of Bifenthrin and λ-Cyhalothrin
Dissipation of bifenthrin and λ-cyhalothrin pyrethroid insecticides, under environmental conditions, was evaluated on green beans grown in experimental greenhouses (Souss Massa valley, Morocco). Pesticide resi...
