Wearable upper limb robotics for pervasive health: A review

C Ochieze, S Zare, Y Sun - Progress in Biomedical Engineering, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Wearable robotics, also called exoskeletons, have been engineered for human-centered
assistance for decades. They provide assistive technologies for maintaining and improving …

Biomechanics, actuation, and multi-level control strategies of power-augmentation lower extremity exoskeletons: An overview

HFN Al-Shuka, MH Rahman, S Leonhardt… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Springer
Improper manipulation of heavy objects can result in hard stresses (tension, compression
and shear) throughout the human body parts, especially in the low-back spine …

A survey on underactuated robotic systems: bio-inspiration, trajectory planning and control

P Liu, MN Huda, L Sun, H Yu - Mechatronics, 2020 - Elsevier
Underactuated robotic systems have become an important research topic aiming at
significant improvement of the behavioural performance and energy efficiency. Adopting …

Multifunctional remotely actuated 3-DOF supernumerary robotic arm based on magnetorheological clutches and hydrostatic transmission lines

C Véronneau, J Denis, LP Lebel… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Supernumerary robotic limbs (SRL) are wearable extra limbs intended to help humans
perform physical tasks beyond conventional capabilities in domestic and industrial …

Minimally model-based trajectory tracking and variable impedance control of flexible-joint robots

E Spyrakos-Papastavridis, JS Dai - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a novel control scheme that primarily provides a solution to the problem
of simultaneously performing stable trajectory tracking and variable impedance control (VIC) …

Myoelectric model reference adaptive control with adaptive kalman filter for a soft elbow exoskeleton

A Toro-Ossaba, JC Tejada, S Rúa, JD Núñez… - Control Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
Rehabilitation and assistance exoskeletons have been widely studied because they allow to
provide more effective, intensive, and adaptive therapies; in addition, they can be used to …

A wearable, multi-frequency device to measure muscle activity combining simultaneous electromyography and electrical impedance myography

C Ngo, C Munoz, M Lueken, A Hülkenberg… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
The detection of muscle contraction and the estimation of muscle force are essential tasks in
robot-assisted rehabilitation systems. The most commonly used method to investigate …

Hybrid impedance-admittance control for upper limb exoskeleton using electromyography

LDL da Silva, TF Pereira, VRQ Leithardt, LO Seman… - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Exoskeletons are wearable mobile robots that combine various technologies to enable limb
movement with greater strength and endurance, being used in several application areas …

Fractional-order impedance control for robot manipulator

Y Ding, X Liu, P Chen, X Luo, Y Luo - Fractal and Fractional, 2022 - mdpi.com
Impedance control is an important method in robot–environment interaction. In traditional
impedance control, the damping force is regarded as a linear viscoelastic model, which …

A review of end-effector research based on compliance control

Y Dai, C Xiang, W Qu, Q Zhang - Machines, 2022 - mdpi.com
The end-effector is a key device for direct contact and operation between the operator and
the workpiece, and its mechanical structure will directly affect the quality of the machine and …