Disabilities are a global issue due to the decrease in life quality and mobility of patients,
especially people suffering from hand disabilities. This paper presents a review of active …

Exoskeletons are robots that closely interact with humans and that are increasingly used for
different purposes, such as rehabilitation, assistance in the activities of daily living (ADLs) …

In this article, various investigations on soft exoskeletons are presented and their functional
and structural characteristics are analyzed. The present work is oriented to the studies of the …

Spinal cord injury (SCI) and stroke are pathologies that often result in the loss of/decrease in
hand functionality. Hand function is a critical component of everyday life and therefore, a …

Textile based pneumatic actuators have recently seen increased development for use in
wearable applications thanks to their high strength to weight ratio and range of achievable …

Robotic devices for rehabilitation and training is a promising and challenging research topic
with a potentially huge social impact. The availability of tools for autonomously performing …

We developed an exoskeleton for neurorehabilitation that covered all relevant degrees of
freedom of the human arm while providing enough range of motion, speed, strength, and …

Robot-assisted thumb rehabilitation can improve the hand function of stroke patients
because the thumb accounts for 40% of hand function. However, existing thumb …

Due to randomness and uncertainty of individual walking gait, this study uses the sparse
Gaussian process (SGP) to construct a knee motion probabilistic model related to its …

Among the methods of hand function rehabilitation after stroke, robot-assisted rehabilitation
is widely used, and the use of hand rehabilitation robots can provide functional training of …