Rehabilitation RoboticsSashi S. Kommu The coupling of several areas of the medical field with recent advances in robotic systems has seen a paradigm shift in our approach to selected sectors of medical care, especially over the last decade. Rehabilitation medicine is one such area. The development of advanced robotic systems has ushered with it an exponential number of trials and experiments aimed at optimising restoration of quality of life to those who are physically debilitated. Despite these developments, there remains a paucity in the presentation of these advances in the form of a comprehensive tool. This book was written to present the most recent advances in rehabilitation robotics known to date from the perspective of some of the leading experts in the field and presents an interesting array of developments put into 33 comprehensive chapters. The chapters are presented in a way that the reader will get a seamless impression of the current concepts of optimal modes of both experimental and ap- plicable roles of robotic devices. |
Contents
Robotic Solutions in Pediatric Rehabilitation | 1 |
Biomechanical Constraints in the Design of Robotic Systems for Tremor Suppression | 13 |
Robotics and Virtual Reality Applications in Mobility Rehabilitation | 27 |
Designing SafetyCritical Rehabilitation Robots | 43 |
Work Assistive Mobile Robot for the Disabled in a Real Work Environ ment | 65 |
The Evolution and Ergonomics of RoboticAssisted Surgical Systems | 81 |
Design and Implementation of a Control Architecture for Rehabilitation Robotic Systems | 91 |
A 3D Rehabilitation System for Upper Limbs EMUL and a 6DOF Rehabilitation System Robotherapist and Other Rehabilitation System | 115 |
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Taskoriented and Purposeful RobotAssisted Therapy | 221 |
Applications of Robotics to Assessment and Physical Therapy of | 243 |
Applications of a Fluidic Artificial Hand in the Field of Rehabilitation | 261 |
UpperLimb Exoskeletons for Physically Weak Persons | 287 |
Rehabilitation Robotics With Controlled Electrical | 303 |
Rehabilitation of the Paralyzed Lower Limbs Using Functional | 337 |
Risk Evaluation of HumanCare Robots | 359 |
Daily Life Independency through SemiAutonomous TaskExecution | 137 |
Coordination of Artificial and Natural Controllers | 163 |
Passivetype Intelligent Walker Controlled Based on Casterlike Dynamics | 187 |
Robotic Exoskeletons for Upper Extremity Rehabilitation | 371 |
A Reconfigurable Platform for Evaluation of HCI acting | 413 |
Other editions - View all
Rehabilitation Robotics: Technology and Application Roberto Colombo,Vittorio Sanguineti Limited preview - 2018 |
Rehabilitation Robotics: Technology and Application Roberto Colombo,Vittorio Sanguineti No preview available - 2018 |
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