8 accepted papers
Contactless diagnosis of musculoskeletal disorders can potentially improve population health as well as robot behaviours in collaborative settings. However, current diagnosis methods require an in-person physical examination in which a trained physician senses, through contact, the force applied by …
Recent human-robot interaction paradigms on aerial robots unfold many potential applications, and efforts are further being made to explore this field. Physical interaction with aerial robots can provide an intuitive way of delivering high-level commands and allowing humans to perform collaborative
The emergence of exoskeleton technology has enabled new opportunities for gait rehabilitation, but effective methods to restore healthy gait patterns with exoskeletons are not yet clearly understood. Early research in robot-based gait rehabilitation offered little improvement over current standards
Manipulation of human ankle dynamics during walking is essential for a smooth gait cycle. Ankle exoskeletons have generally proven positive for rehabilitation and restoration purposes. With the focus on prolonged use of such exoskeletons, there is a need to study the effect of exoskeletons’ residual
The letter introduces a passive back-assist exosuit (BASE) emulator system for manual material handling applications. The presented emulator has a fabric brace mounted modular moment arm, onboard load cells for measuring device interaction forces, and a synchronized EMG system. The design permits st
Humans perform movement tasks using motor and cognitive skills. The optimum outcome of the task is dependent on how the motor and cognitive skills are combined. When a dual-task is performed, this combination becomes even more important as the user has to devote limited available attention to the co
A quadcopter is an under-actuated system with only four control inputs for six degrees of freedom, and yet the human control of a quadcopter is simple enough to be learned with some practice. In this work, we consider the problem of human control of a multiple quadcopters system to transport a cable…
In this paper, we develop an intervention to apply external gait synchronized forces on the pelvis to reduce the user's effort during walking. A cable-driven robot was used to apply the external forces and an adaptive frequency oscillator scheme was developed to adapt the timing of force actuation t