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Chapter and Conference Paper
Pilot Testing of a New Questionnaire for the Assessment of User Experience During Exoskeleton-Assisted Walking
Scientific literature provides weak attempts in analyzing user experience during the use of rehabilitation and assistive wearable robotic devices. The objective of this study is to develop and preliminary test...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Psychophysiological Assessment of Exoskeleton-Assisted Treadmill Walking
Despite being able to derive quantitative data on motor performance, rehabilitation robots typically do not provide information on users’ subjective experience, and in particular on their psychophysiological s...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Benefits and Potential of a Neuromuscular Controller for Exoskeleton-Assisted Walking
Controlling wearable exoskeletons to interact with people suffering from locomotion disabilities due to lesions of the central nervous system is a complex challenge since it entails fulfillment of many concurr...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Walking Assistance of Subjects with Spinal Cord Injury with an Ankle Exoskeleton and Neuromuscular Controller
This work was devoted to preliminary test the Achilles ankle exoskeleton and its NeuroMuscular Controller (NMC) with a test pilot affected by incomplete spinal cord injury. The customization of the robot cont...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Training Balance Recovery in People with Incomplete SCI Wearing a Wearable Exoskeleton
Improving stability of people wearing a lower extremity Wearable Exoskeleton (WE) is one of the biggest challenges in the field. The goal of this preliminary study was to improve balance recovery from perturba...