4 accepted papers
Recent developments in soft active wearable robots can be used for upper extremity injury prevention for healthy industrial workers with better comfort than rigid systems, but there has not been control strategy proposals for such use cases. In this letter, we introduce a kinematics-based controller
In the field of wearable robotics, there has been increased interest in the creation of soft wearable robots to provide assistance and rehabilitation for those with physical impairments. Compared to traditional robots, these devices have the potential to be fully portable and lightweight, a flexibil
Intense therapy is a key factor to improve rehabilitation outcomes. However, when performing rehabilitative stretching with the upper limb of stroke survivors, therapist fatigue is often the limiting factor for the number of repetitions per session. In this work we present an inflatable soft wearabl
Assist-as-needed control aims at maximizing stroke survivors involvement during robotic-led therapies of neurorehabilitation. Besides the specific characteristics of the designed adaptive control strategy, a fundamental property of this control architecture is the choice of the error signal which wi…