Background Enabling persons with functional weaknesses to perform activities of daily living
(ADL) is one of the main challenges for the aging society. Powered orthoses, or …

Musculoskeletal models provide an approach towards simulating the ability of the human
body in a variety of human-robot applications. A promising use for musculoskeletal models …

Exoskeletons are increasingly used in rehabilitation and daily life in patients with motor
disorders after neurological injuries. In this paper, a realistic human knee exoskeleton model …

Technologies that provide physical assistance during tasks are often required to provide
assistance specific to the task and person performing it. An example is robotic rehabilitation …

Many recent human-robot collaboration strategies, such as Assist-As-Needed (AAN), are
promoting human-centered robot control, where the robot continuously adapts its assistance …

Robotic devices have great potential in physical therapy owing to their repeatability,
reliability and cost economy. However, there are great challenges to realize active control …

Ellipsoid-based manipulability measures are often used to characterize the force/velocity
task-space capabilities of robots. While computationally simple, this approach largely …

A model-based assistance-as-needed paradigm has been developed to govern the
assistance provided by an assistive robot to its operator. This paradigm has advantages …

This letter investigates an explicit biomechanical framework to solve forward
neuromusculoskeletal models (NMSMs), which includes muscle-tendon activation and …

This paper presents Game Adaptive Virtual Reality Rehabilitation (GAVRe 2), a framework
to augment upper limb rehabilitation using Virtual Reality (VR) gamification and haptic …