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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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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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6 Dynamic Analysis
A general dynamical system subjected to an external force vector $\vec{f}(t)$...
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10 Equivalent Statistical Linearization
The solution of non-linear vibration problems in terms of probabilistic characteristics of the response is a complex task, since no general methods...
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12 Stability Analysis of Cylindrical Shells with Random Imperfections
As an example of imperfection sensitive structures, the axially compressed cylindrical shell is analyzed in the subsequent sections. Despite of its...
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2 Outline
The monograph is structured as follows: Part I including Chapts. 3–6 reviews briefly the theoretical background of the deterministic methods and...
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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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Fuzzy Equational Logic
Equational logic deals with identities (equations) like x+y ≈ y+x, x.(y+z) ≈ x.y + x.z, dec(inc(x)) ≈ x, etc. Identities are simple formulas which...
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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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Prototype Based Recognition of Splice Sites
Splice site recognition is an important subproblem of de novo gene finding, splice junctions constituting the boundary between coding and non-coding...
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Artificial Neural Networks for Reducing the Dimensionality of Gene Expression Data
The use of gene chips and microarrays for measuring gene expression is becoming widespread and is producing enormous amounts of data. With increasing...
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Multimedia Medical Informatics System in Healthcare
In our modern 21st century, daily life would be unthinkable without computers. Multimedia and virtual reality are useful for people with spein...
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8 Karhunen-Loève Expansion
In the following, second order stochastic processes are considered, i.e. random functions x(t) satisfying E{x(t)2}<∞,...