3 accepted papers
Exosuits can reduce metabolic demand and improve gait. Controllers explicitly derived from biological mechanisms that reflect the user's joint or muscle dynamics should in theory allow for individualized assistance and enable adaptation to changing gait. With the goal of developing an exosuit contro…
Locomotor impairments afflict more than 80% of people poststroke. Our group has previously developed a unilateral ankle exosuit aimed at assisting the paretic ankle joint of stroke survivors during walking. While studies to date have shown promising biomechanical and physiological changes, there rem
Hemiparetic gait after stroke is typically asymmetric and energetically inefficient. A major contributor to walking deficits is impaired paretic ankle function. Impaired paretic ankle plantarflexion (PF) reduces forward propulsion symmetry and impaired paretic ankle dorsiflexion (DF) diminishes grou…