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Effect of Medication and Freezing of Gait on Rambling and Trembling in Quiet Standing in Individuals With Parkinson's Disease

Background: Individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD) with freezing of gait (FoG) exhibit difficulty with changes in sensory input, indicating a potential sensorimotor integration deficit. Understanding how levodopa impacts balance particularly in FoG, is ...

HUMAN KINETICS PUBL INC2025

Adaptive Negative Damping Control for User-Dependent Multi-Terrain Walking Assistance With a Hip Exoskeleton

Auke Ijspeert, Mohamed Bouri, Giulia Ramella

Hip exoskeletons are known for their versatility in assisting users across varied scenarios. However, current assistive strategies often lack the flexibility to accommodate for individual walking patterns and adapt to diverse locomotion environments. In th ...

IEEE2025

Assessing Balance During Gait with a Lower Limb Exoskeleton

Auke Ijspeert, Mohamed Bouri

Maintaining balance is a critical aspect of human gait, especially for individuals with balance deficiencies. Accurate assessment and monitoring of balance are essential to reduce the risk of falls and improve mobility outcomes. Individuals with balance im ...

Springer Nature Switzerland2025

Walking on the Edge: Brain Connectivity Changes in Response to Virtual Height Challenges

Mohamed Bouri

Virtual reality (VR) environments simulating height offer a unique platform to investigate neural adaptations to emotionally salient contexts during locomotion. These simulations allow for controlled analysis of motor‐cognitive interactions under perceived ...

Wiley2025

Adaptive hip exoskeleton control using heart rate feedback reduces oxygen cost during ecological locomotion

Auke Ijspeert, Mohamed Bouri, Ali Reza Manzoori

Despite their potential, exoskeletons have not reached widespread adoption in daily life, partly due to the challenge of seamlessly adapting assistance across various tasks and environments. Task-specific designs, reliance on complex sensing and extensive ...

Nature Research2025

Automated Selectivity-Driven Algorithm for Transcutaneous Spinal Cord Stimulation

Silvestro Micera, Mohamed Bouri, Solaiman Shokur, Mouhamed Zorkot

Spinal cord injury (SCI) impairs motor function and quality of life. Transcutaneous Spinal Cord Stimulation (tSCS) is a non-invasive method to restore motor function by activating spinal circuits below the lesion. However, its effectiveness is limited by i ...

IEEE2025

ExoRecovery: Push Recovery with a Lower-Limb Exoskeleton Based on Stepping Strategy

Auke Ijspeert, Mohamed Bouri, Milad Shafiee Ashtiani

Balance loss is a significant challenge in lower-limb exoskeleton applications, as it can lead to potential falls, thereby impacting user safety and confidence. We introduce a control framework for omnidirectional recovery step planning by online optimizat ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

Real-Time Locomotion Transitions Detection: Maximizing Performances with Minimal Resources

Auke Ijspeert, Mohamed Bouri

Assistive devices, such as exoskeletons and prostheses, have revolutionized the field of rehabilitation and mobility assistance. Efficiently detecting transitions between different activities, such as walking, stair ascending and descending, and sitting, i ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

Adaptive Feedforward Super-Twisting Sliding Mode Control of Parallel Kinematic Manipulators With Real-Time Experiments

Mohamed Bouri

In this paper, we propose a novel adaptive feedforward super-twisting sliding mode control algorithm to resolve the tracking control problem of parallel manipulators. The proposed control scheme includes three main terms, (i) the standard super-twisting al ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

Novel neuromuscular controllers with simplified muscle model and enhanced reflex modulation: A comparative study in hip exoskeletons

Auke Ijspeert, Mohamed Bouri, Ali Reza Manzoori, Andrea Di Russo, Sara Messara

Neuromuscular controllers (NMCs) offer a promising approach to adaptive and task-invariant control of exoskeletons for walking assistance, leveraging the bioinspired models based on the peripheral nervous system. This article expands on our previous develo ...

CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS2024