Intelligent mobile walking-aids: perception, control and safety

Q Yan, J Huang, C Tao, X Chen, W Xu - Advanced Robotics, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Robot-assisted walking has become a popular research field for helping mobility-limited
people to walk more easily. Different from other walking-aid devices (eg exoskeletons and …

Scoring of human body-balance ability on wobble board based on the geometric solution

HTP Nguyen, Y Woo, NN Huynh, H Jeong - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Many studies have reported that the human body-balance ability was essential in the early
detection and self-management of chronic diseases. However, devices to measure balance …

Standing, walking, and sitting support robot based on user state estimation using a small number of sensors

M Takeda, K Sato, Y Hirata, T Katayama… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the aging of the population and the consequent severe shortage of caregivers, the
demand for care robots to assist the elderly is increasing. However, care robots have yet to …

Research on steady characteristics of human-robot system for preventing elderly falls during walking

X Zhang, X Mu, L Li, AB Alhassan… - Journal of Mechanical …, 2022 - Springer
Due to the ever-increasing demand of caregivers and the high cost of nursing the elderly,
researchers have been developing the elderly assistant robots (EARs) for assisting the …

Effect of assist robot on muscle synergy during sit-to-stand movement

T Wang, S Okada, A Guo, M Makikawa… - … on Intelligence and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sit-to-Stand (STS) is an important movement in daily life and could be difficult for older
people. Assist robot is expected to provide STS support. STS movement does not only …

Application of supervised principal motion analysis to evaluate subjectively easy sit-to-stand motion of healthy people

C Qiu, S Okamoto, Y Akiyama, Y Yamada - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Redundant human motions such as walking or sit-to-stand motions involve time-series data
of several variables. Principal motion analysis (PMA) can be adopted to decompose such …

Image similarity check of nailfold capillary by template matching

S Suga, A Otomo, H Jeong… - 2019 IEEE 8th Global …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: This study was to propose a continuous observation method of same nailfold
capillaries for the early diagnosis of secondary Raynauds phenomenon through the image …

[PDF][PDF] 防老年人跌倒的助老机器人人机系统动态稳定性分析模型

穆小奇, 张小栋, 徐海鹏, 李亮亮 - 西安交通大学学报, 2020 - zkxb.xjtu.edu.cn
2. 西安交通大学陕西省智能机器人重点实验室, 710049, 西安) 摘要: 针对现有助行机器人防老年
人跌倒的安全保障措施不够完善, 模型存在局限性的问题, 建立了防止老年人跌倒的助老机器人 …

One-Step Gait Pattern Analysis of Hip Osteoarthritis Patients Based on Dynamic Time Warping through Ground Reaction Force

S Ahn, W Choi, H Jeong, S Oh, TD Jung - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip is a degenerative joint disease, which means it causes gradual
damage to the joint, and its incidence rate continues to increase worldwide. Degenerative …

Control method of elderly-assistant robot for preventing elderly fall

X Mu, X Zhang, S Fu, AB Alhassan… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The elderly are prone to fall during walking, which not only leads to injury but also can cause
permanent disability or even death. Thus, it is crucial for the walking-assistant robot to …