A pilot clinical study on robotic assisted rehabilitation in VR with an arm exoskeleton device

2007 Virtual Rehabilitation, IWVR

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 57-64

  Montagner, Alberto ^a,b   Frisoli, Antonio ^a,b   Borelli, Luigi ^a,b   Procopio, Caterina ^b   Bergamasco, Massimo ^a,b   Carboncini, Maria C ^c   Rossi, Bruno ^c  

^a IEEE

^b PERCRO Laboratory of the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

IMPEDANCE CONTROL; PILOT STUDIES; VIRTUAL REHABILITATION;

PATIENT REHABILITATION;

EID: 50949116808     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICVR.2007.4362131     Document Type: Conference Paper

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