3 accepted papers
Stroke affects a large number of people every year. One consequence is the weakness of ambulatory muscles resulting in a paretic gait. Actuated ankle foot orthoses can be a solution to assist paretic patients to dorsiflex and/or plantar flex their ankle joint during the gait phases. To assist the we…
In this paper, a model reference adaptive control with saturated proportional derivative (PD) action for an active ankle foot orthosis (AAFO) to assist the gait of paretic patients, is studied. Unlike most classical model-based controllers, the proposed controller does not require any prior estimati…
The next generation of ambient assisted living services will be based on eco-systems or organizations of intelligent artificial agents embodied in companion robots and smart objects. To provide, anywhere and anytime, smart assistance services to people, these agents need to be endowed with advanced…