The existing shortage of therapists and caregivers assisting physically disabled individuals
at home is expected to increase and become serious problem in the near future. The patient …

Current health services are struggling to provide optimal rehabilitation therapy to victims of
stroke. This has motivated researchers to explore the use of robotic devices to provide …

There is increasing interest in using robotic devices to assist in movement training following
neurologic injuries such as stroke and spinal cord injury. This paper reviews control …

Electromyographical (EMG) signals have been frequently used to estimate human muscular
torques. In the field of human-assistive robotics, these methods provide valuable information …

In the last decades, wearable powered orthoses have been developed with the aim of
augmenting or assisting motor activities. In particular, among many applications, wearable …

To get a compliant active exoskeleton controller, the force interaction controllers are mostly
used in form of either the impedance or admittance controllers. The impedance or …

This paper presents the design and experimental testing of the robotic elbow exoskeleton
NEUROBOTICS Elbow Exoskeleton (NEUROExos). The design of NEUROExos focused on …

The fourth industrial revolution faces the technological challenge of human-robot
cooperation in manufacturing process. Aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness …

Robotic orthoses, or exoskeletons, have the potential to provide effective rehabilitation while
overcoming the availability and cost constraints of therapists. However, current orthosis …

In this paper, we study the human locomotor adaptation to the action of a powered
exoskeleton providing assistive torque at the user's hip during walking. To this end, we …