Adaptive control of a variable-impedance ankle-foot orthosis to assist drop-foot gait

By Joaquin A. Blaya, Hugh M. Herr. IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering, 2004

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation, Psychiatry and Mental health

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State of the Art and Future Directions for Lower Limb Robotic Exoskeletons (2017, background): “There have been a large number of prototype robotic ankle exoskeletons developed [25]–[34], sometimes referred to as powered ankle–foot orthoses.”
Soft Robotics: A Perspective—Current Trends and Prospects for the Future (2014, neutral): “For example, a soft active ankle foot orthotic (AFO) could help prevent foot dragging for patients that suffer gait abnormalities such as drop foot.(4) When active, the AFO would stiffen and supply mechanical work to the ankle to assist with lifting the foot.”
Review of assistive strategies in powered lower-limb orthoses and exoskeletons (2015, methodology): “The MIT AAFO has been designed to assist ankle movement of patients having drop-foot gait [95].”
Lower Extremity Exoskeletons and Active Orthoses: Challenges and State-of-the-Art (2008, background): “MIT active AFO [79], Michigan ankle orthoses [82], and the Northeastern University knee orthosis [87].”
Augmented visual, auditory, haptic, and multimodal feedback in motor learning: A review (2012, background): “This freedom may facilitate motor learning (Scheidt et al., 2000) and can vary from completely unconstrained movements in terms of position and timing errors (e.g., provided by zero impedance control; Blaya & Herr, 2004) to completely restricted movements as provided by position con-trol.”
An improved powered ankle-foot orthosis using proportional myoelectric control. (2006, background): “The bivalve design and buckles on the shank section allowed the subject to put on or take off the orthosis in less than a minute.”
Robot-Aided Neurorehabilitation: A Novel Robot for Ankle Rehabilitation (2009, background): “Recent advances in therapeutic robotics have led to several devices specific to lower extremity (LE), including those for ankle rehabilitation [ 16 ], [19]–[22].”