Conclusions and Future Research Directions
, . The ultimate goal of this rehabilitation technology is to translate into patients’ homes, where it can be used without direct supervision from a therapist over longer training periods….
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Clinical Application: Goal-Orientated Stroke Rehabilitation
Fig. 7.1 Human arm kinematic relationships The underlying kinematics are shown in Fig. 7.1 and include the wrist action considered in Chap. 6. The rehabilitation system is shown in Fig. 7.2 and facilitates…
Clinical Application: Multiple Sclerosis
Fig. 5.1 Signal flow diagram showing system components: passive robot; real-time processor; ES hardware; therapist and participant displays Fig. 5.2 a PwMS using mechanical support with ES applied to her…
Introduction
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016Chris FreemanControl System Design for Electrical Stimulation in Upper Limb Rehabilitation10.1007/978-3-319-25706-8_1 1. Introduction Chris Freeman1 (1) University of Southampton, Southampton, UK Chris Freeman Email: cf@ecs.soton.ac.uk Fifteen million people annually…
Kinematic and Computational Model of Human Ankle
(7.2) is the homogeneous transformation matrix, is the orthonormal matrix that describes the orientation of frame B with respect to frame A and is the translation from origin of frame…
Adaptive Ankle Rehabilitation Robot Control Strategies
and the XYZ Euler angles used to describe the end-effector orientation. It should be noted that both these quantities are observed in the global coordinate frame and are grouped together…
Development of the Ankle Rehabilitation Robot
Fig. 8.1 a Rotational motions of the human ankle. b Anatomical planes of the human body (adapted from [2]) Table 8.1 Typical range of motion at the human ankle Type of motion…
Modelling Human Shoulder and Elbow
Fig. 4.1 Anatomy of the human shoulder. The three joints responsible for shoulder movements are the glenohumeral, sternoclavicular and acromioclavicular joints The movements of the two remaining joints, the sternoclavicular and…
Motion and Interactive Control for Upper Limb Exoskeleton
: (6.1)A measure of smoothness can be obtained for a trajectory x that starts at time and ends at time by calculating the jerk cost: (6.2)To obtain the smoothest trajectory,…
Upper Limb Exoskeleton Development
Fig. 5.1 Process diagram of the NSGA II algorithm 1. [Start] Select a termination criterion based on number of iterations. 2. [Initialize] Initialize a random population of Q chromosomes (suitable…
