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Exosquelette motorisé

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Toward higher-performance bionic limbs for wider clinical use

Most prosthetic limbs can autonomously move with dexterity, yet they are not perceived by the user as belonging to their own body. Robotic limbs can convey information about the environment with higher precision than biological limbs, but their actual perf ...

NATURE RESEARCH2021

Comprehensive Interactive Soft Interfaces for Wearable Tactile Feedback

Harshal Arun Sonar

As the field of robotics continues to grow outside the manufacturing environment into our daily lives, the interactions between humans and robots are increasingly becoming close and dynamic. This type of environment requires robots to be less rigid, multi- ...

EPFL2021

Model-Free Iterative Learning Control With Nonrepetitive Trajectories for Second-Order MIMO Nonlinear Systems-Application to a Delta Robot

Mohamed Bouri

A model-free iterative learning control strategy (ILC) in nonrepetitive trajectories, applied to robotic manipulators is presented in this article. The development of this ILC controller is derived in general case for second-order nonlinear multi-input mul ...

2021

Electrically-Driven Soft Fluidic Actuators Combining Stretchable Pumps With Thin McKibben Muscles

Herbert Shea, Vito Cacucciolo

Soft wearable robots could provide support for lower and upper limbs, increase weight lifting ability, decrease energy required for walking and running, and even provide haptic feedback. However, to date most of wearable robots are based on electromagnetic ...

2020

Neuromuscular Controller Embedded in a Powered Ankle Exoskeleton: Effects on Gait, Clinical Features and Subjective Perspective of Incomplete Spinal Cord Injured Subjects

Auke Ijspeert, Florin Dzeladini

Powered exoskeletons are among the emerging technologies claiming to assist functional ambulation. The potential to adapt robotic assistance based on specific motor abilities of incomplete spinal cord injury (iSCI) subjects, is crucial to optimize Human-Ro ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

A sEMG-driven Soft ExoSuit based on Twisted String Actuators for Elbow Assistive Applications

Jamie Paik, Andres San Millan Rodriguez

The scope of this work is to show the applicability of the Twisted String Actuators (TSAs) for lightweight, wearable and assistive robotic applications. To this aim, we have developed a novel surface electromyography (sEMG)-driven soft ExoSuit using the TS ...

2020

Pneumatic supply system parameter optimization for soft actuators

Jamie Paik, Sagar Dattatray Joshi

Soft actuators using pressurized air are being widely used due to their inherent compliance, conformability and customizability. These actuators are powered and controlled by pneumatic supply systems (PSSs) consisting of components such as compressors, val ...

2020

Reconfigurable and Latchable Shape‐Morphing Dielectric Elastomers Based on Local Stiffness Modulation

Herbert Shea, Bekir Aksoy

Programmable soft materials exhibiting dynamically reconfigurable, reversible, fast, and latchable shape transformation are key for applications ranging from wearable tactile actuators to deployable soft robots. Multimorph soft actuator sheets with high lo ...

2020

Multimodal pipe-climbing robot with origami clutches and soft modular legs

Jamie Paik, Frédéric Henri Vaskin Giraud, Hongying Zhang, Yongkang Jiang

In nature, climbing trees and pipes of varying diameters or even navigating inside of hollow pipes and tree holes is easy for some climbing animals and insects. However, today's pipe-climbing robots, which are important for automatically conducting periodi ...

2020

Motor improvement estimation and task adaptation for personalized robot-aided therapy: a feasibility study

Silvestro Micera, Elvira Pirondini, Jenifer Cléa Miehlbradt, Nawal Noëlle Kinany, Martina Coscia, Christian Giang, Camilla Pierella

Background In the past years, robotic systems have become increasingly popular in upper limb rehabilitation. Nevertheless, clinical studies have so far not been able to confirm superior efficacy of robotic therapy over conventional methods. The personaliza ...

2020

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