Impedance-controlled, minimally-assistive robotic training of severely impaired hemiparetic patients

Proceedings of the First IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, 2006, BioRob 2006

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 507-512

  Casadio, Maura ^a   Morasso, Pietro ^a   Sanguineti, Vittorio ^a   Giannoni, Psiche ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b ART Education and Rehabilitation Center   (Italy)

Author keywords

Haptic interface; Hemiplegic patients; Impedance control; Motor learning; Robot therapy

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEMS; HAPTIC INTERFACES; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT TREATMENT;

HEMIPLEGIC PATIENTS; IMPEDANCE CONTROL; MOTOR LEARNING; ROBOT THERAPY;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 33845571222     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BIOROB.2006.1639139     Document Type: Conference Paper

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