Feasibility of manual teach-and-replay and continuous impedance shaping for robotic locomotor training following spinal cord injury

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 322-334

  Emken, Jeremy L ^a   Harkema, Susan J ^b   Beres Jones, Janell A ^c   Ferreira, Christie K ^b   Reinkensmeyer, David J ^d  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive control; Legged locomotion; Motor systems; Robots; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PATIENT TREATMENT; ROBOTICS;

LEGGED LOCOMOTION; MOTOR SYSTEMS; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TRAINER-INDUCED LEG TRAJECTORIES;

GAIT ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; KINEMATICS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE TRAINING; PNEUMATIC TOOL; ROBOTICS; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

EXPERT SYSTEMS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; ROBOTICS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 37349064227     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2007.910683     Document Type: Article

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