Haptic guidance of Light-Exoskeleton for arm-rehabilitation tasks

2011 IEEE World Haptics Conference

et al. 2011

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Eye-tracking systems are playing an increasingly important role in assistive robotics as hand-free interaction interfaces for motor impaired people, but no noticeable applications have been developed so far for enhancing the robotic assisted training in functional rehabilitation. In this paper we propose a new gazebased control to provide active guidance to the upper limb movement, through a robotic exoskeleton, in the functional rehabilitation of pick and place tasks. Experimental results on healthy subjects demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed approach and the breakthrough that the system introduces in the field of eye-based rehabilitation systems.

Section: The Light-exosmentioning

confidence: 99%

A new gaze-tracking guidance mode for upper limb robot-aided neurorehabilitation

Loconsole

Bartalucci

2011 IEEE World Haptics Conference

et al. 2011

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“…This definition helps to assess the robotic-mediated-therapy as an area of rehabilitation robotics, offering the capabilities to improve the gradual outcome of post-stroke patients engaged on rehabilitation of neuromotor control in comparison with conventional therapy [14]. Also the idea of robotic-mediated-therapy is an opportunity to innovate and improve trough new emerging fields the rehabilitation endeavour field.…”

Section: Rehabilitation Robotics Is the Multi-disciplinary Field Whicmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…• Bio-Signals: The analysis of other signals coming from the muscles(EMG) different from the system's states are a good option for measuring the effectiveness and progress of the therapy [16]; even we could know whether the exoskeleton is not wellaligned with the patient-arm rotation axes. a) b) Fig.…”

Section: Involved Technologies Knowledge and Their Trends To The Innmentioning

confidence: 99%

Right-Arm Robotic-Aided-Therapy with the Light-Exoskeleton: A General Overview

Lugo-Villeda

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

Sotgiu

et al. 2010

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Abstract. Rehabilitation robotics applications and their developments have been spreading out as consequences of the actual needs in the human activities of daily living (ADL). Exoskeletons for rehabilitation are one of them, whose intrinsic characteristics are quite useful for applications where repetitive, robustness and accurate performance are a must. As a part of robotic-mediatedrehabilitation programme into the worldwide, the exoskeletons are trying to improve the ADL of disable people through the fusion of several disciplines that lets to expand the capabilities of wearing a powered robotic exoskeletal device for rehabilitation tasks. This fact deserves to present this contribution from a general scope point of view, i.e., the technologies integration and its associated knowledge. So far, the Light-Exoskeleton which is intended for human arm rehabilitation in post-stroke patients is introduced. Preliminary experimental results as well as the involved stages about the system show the capabilities of using a robotic-constrained-rehabilitation for human arm.

“…The Light-Exoskeleton (see Figure 2), L-Exos for short, was designed under biologically inspiration of the human-arm with the most important proximal movements configuration [12]. It is a 5 DoF serial robotic device, four of them fully actuated, while the last one is a passive joint and used to measure the wrist pronation/supination motion.…”

Section: A Brief Introduction To the Light-exoskeletonmentioning

confidence: 99%

Clinical VR applications with the light-exoskeleton for upper-part neurorehabilitation

Lugo-Villeda

19th International Symposium in Robot and Human Interactive Communication

Sotgiu

et al. 2010

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It is well-known that virtual reality (VR) is a powerful and promising computer-based technology for the motor recovery in stroke patients. The importance of using VR into arm rehabilitation has coined it as clinical VR; where its main sake is to improve the recovery process of post-stroke patients. In this regard, physical therapy and occupational therapy are provided by such technology. As we shall see into this contribution, interesting clinical VR applications have been designed for handling effectively the brain plasticity in chronic stroke patients. To this end, we use the so-called Light-Exoskeleton which has been presented for arm-robotic therapy such that it serves as the kinesthetic feedback stimulator for assisting the patient during the rehabilitation sessions.