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EXiO-A Brain-Controlled Lower Limb Exoskeleton for Rhesus Macaques

Hannes Bleuler, Mohamed Bouri, Jeremy Olivier, Miguel Nicolelis, Tristan Hubert Vouga

Recent advances in the field of brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) have demonstrated enormous potential to shape the future of rehabilitation and prosthetic devices. Here, a lower-limb exoskeleton controlled by the intracortical activity of an awake behaving ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017

Spinal joint compliance and actuation in a simulated bounding quadruped robot

Auke Ijspeert, Alexander Spröwitz, Soha Pouya, Mohammad Khodabakhsh

Spine movements play an important role in quadrupedal locomotion, yet their potential benefits in locomotion of quadruped robots have not been systematically explored. In this work, we investigate the role of spinal joint actuation and compliance on the bo ...

Springer2017

A multimodal framework for the design and the assessment of robotic-assisted treatments for motor disorders

Elvira Pirondini

Robotic devices represent an undeniable alternative method to traditional therapy. However, the clinical use of robot-assisted rehabilitation for patients with hemiplegia after stroke has been restricted for decades by i) limited functional characterisatio ...

EPFL2017

Development of Essential Components for Soft Wearable Technologies

Amir Firouzeh

The rising demand for safe human-robot interaction in daily tasks has motivated significant research effort in the robotics field towards compliant and conformable robots, capable of replicating complex human movements in applications such as wearable reha ...

EPFL2017

EMG-based decoding of grasp gestures in reaching-to-grasping motions

Aude Billard, Silvestro Micera, Elvira Pirondini, Sahar El Khoury, Martina Coscia, Iason Batzianoulis

Predicting the grasping function during reach-to-grasp motions is essential for controlling a prosthetic hand or a robotic assistive device. An early accurate prediction increases the usability and the comfort of a prosthetic device. This work proposes an ...

Elsevier2017

Modeling, Characterization and Control of a Novel Torsional Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) Actuator

Jamie Paik, Zhenishbek Zhakypov, Jian-Lin Huang

Thermally activated shape memory alloy (SMA) actuators are direct-driven and produce high power density with design versatility. However, beyond their linear actuation in spring forms there is little variety and their application in robotics is limited by ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

Development of Walk Assistive Orthoses for Elderly

Jeremy Olivier

The proportion of elderly people is rapidly growing and the resources to help them will soon be insufficient. An important difficulty faced by the seniors is locomotion. Among the conditions that may be responsible for gait impairment, the reduced muscular ...

EPFL2016

Adaptive foot design for small quadruped robots

Auke Ijspeert, Peter Eckert

Biologically inspired robots that are used for research of the animal and the technological realm become more and more refined. Control schemes for sensor-less and sensorized robots were developed, are able to handle torque control and sometimes even adapt ...

2016

Stretchable Materials for Robust Soft Actuators towards Assistive Wearable Devices

Jamie Paik, Gunjan Agarwal, Basile Nicolas Audergon, Nicolas Besuchet

Soft actuators made from elastomeric active materials can find widespread potential implementation in a variety of applications ranging from assistive wearable technologies targeted at biomedical rehabilitation or assistance with activities of daily living ...

2016

Aging setup for high cycle tests on dielectric elastomer actuators

Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset, Christine Anne de Saint-Aubin

To be implemented at the industrial scale, any dielectric elastomer actuator (DEA) must demonstrate long term reliability. For this purpose, a novel and fast DEA aging setup for high cycle tests has been developed. It monitors the in-plane strain and the c ...

2016

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