Population ageing has major consequences and implications in all areas of our daily life as well as other important aspects, such as economic growth, savings, investment and consumption, labour markets, pensions, property and care from one generation to another. Additionally, health and related care, family composition and life-style, housing and migration are also affected. Given the rapid increase in the aging of the population and the further increase that is expected in the coming years, an important problem that has to be faced is the corresponding increase in chronic illness, disabilities, and loss of functional independence endemic to the elderly (WHO 2008). For this reason, novel methods of rehabilitation and care management are urgently needed. This book covers many rehabilitation support systems and robots developed for upper limbs, lower limbs as well as visually impaired condition. Other than upper limbs, the lower limb research works are also discussed like motorized foot rest for electric powered wheelchair and standing assistance device.
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The need of human helping robots is imposed by the nowadays trend towards protecting the physically impaired people. New researches in this area have arisen in the past years. In the next few lines an overview of the state of the art in this domain will be made. The main objective in this paper is to demonstrate the simultaneous localization for a wheelchair, using elecromiographic signals. So far the research on robots used for helping disabled people has been focusing mainly on replacing limbs by robotic prosthesis or surgery
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