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Abstract | ||
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Patients suffering from neuromuscular diseases experience motor disabilities which hinder their independence during activities of daily living (ADLs). For such impaired subjects, robotic devices and Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) are technologies commonly used to rehabilitate lost functions. Nevertheless, both systems present some limitations, and merging FES and robots in Hybrid Robotic Rehabilitation Systems allows to overcome these boundaries. Here we propose for the first time a hybrid cooperative controller involving FES and a soft wearable upper arm exosuit to rehabilitate elbow movements. We tested the designed hybrid controller on six healthy participants. The results showed how the proposed hybrid controller allowed the wearers to perform flexion movements with no significant decrease in accuracy and precision with respect to the exosuit alone, while significantly decreasing the fatigue level by about 63% and delaying its onset with respect to the FES action alone. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2022 | 10.1109/ICORR55369.2022.9896493 | 2022 International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR) |
Keywords | DocType | Volume |
Activities of Daily Living,Arm,Electric Stimulation,Humans,Movement,Upper Extremity | Conference | 2022 |
ISSN | ISBN | Citations |
1945-7898 | 978-1-6654-8830-3 | 0 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.34 | 2 | 7 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Davide Burchielli | 1 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Nicola Lotti | 2 | 5 | 1.89 |
| Francesco Missiroli | 3 | 5 | 1.89 |
| Casimir Bokranz | 4 | 2 | 1.13 |
| Alessandra Pedrocchi | 5 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Emilia Ambrosini | 6 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Lorenzo Masia | 7 | 4 | 1.51 |