Disabled people require assistance with the motion of their lower limbs to improve rehabilitation. Exoskeletons used for lower limb rehabilitation are highly priced and are not affordable to the lowerincome sector of the population. This paper describes an exoskeleton lower limb system that was designed keeping in mind that the cost must be as low as possible. ...

Abstract The research on exoskeleton robots has been widely carried out for many years around the world, especially development of new-style lower limb exoskeletons rehabilitation and assistance is one key directions. focus control system discussed. Based public literature in recent years, it summarized from three aspects, i.e., movement mode switching, human gait recognition human-exoskeleton ...

Motor recovery in post-stroke and post-traumatic patients using exoskeleton controlled by the brain-computer interface (BCI) is a new and promising rehabilitation procedure. Its development is a multidisciplinary research which requires, the teamwork of experts in neurology, neurophysiology, physics, mathematics, biomechanics and robotics. Some aspects of all these fields of study concerning th...

Several muscular degenerative diseases alter motor abilities of large muscles but spare smaller muscles, e.g. keeping hand motor skills relatively unaffected while upper limbs ones are altered. Thus, hand movements could be be used to control an arm exoskeleton for rehabilitation and assistive purpose. Using an infra-red sensors (IR) based interface for the exoskeleton control, this paper descr...

There are numerous causes that can affect the functioning of the human locomotor system, leading to the appearance of joint disorders in the lower limb and generating atypical gait patterns. The importance of research and development in assistance technologies to compensate pathological gait have been recognised since the beginning of the twentieth century and numerous challenges still lie ahea...

The growing number of robotics application fields, mainly in services, has led to the increase of new needs as well as the development of new facilities for teleoperation. Research in the design of more efficient and easy to use human-machine interfaces has propitiated the development of friendly communication systems such as those based on voice or gesture recognition. This work describes a vi...

We developed a powered ankle-foot orthosis that uses artificial pneumatic muscles to produce active plantar flexor torque. The purpose of this study was to quantify the mechanical performance of the orthosis during human walking. Three subjects walked at a range of speeds wearing ankle-foot orthoses with either one or two artificial muscles working in parallel. The orthosis produced similar tot...

Several muscular degenerative diseases alter motor abilities of large muscles but spare smaller muscles, e.g. keeping hand motor skills relatively unaffected while upper limbs ones are altered. Thus, hand movements could be be used to control an arm exoskeleton for rehabilitation and assistive purpose. Using an infra-red sensors (IR) based interface for the exoskeleton control, this paper descr...

stroke is one of the most common diseases among the elderly with high personal and societal costs. in recent years, robotic rehabilitation for stroke has become an active area of research for assistance, monitoring and qualifying the rehabilitation treatments. the key issue needed for improving rehabilitation system is that patient feedback should be taken into account by the robotic rehabilita...