Wearable kinesthetic systems and emerging technologies in actuation for upperlimb neurorehabilitation

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 6830-6833

  De Rossi, Danilo ^a   Carpi, Federico ^a   Lorussi, Federico ^a   Scilingo, Enzo Pasquale ^a   Tognetti, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATION PROPERTY; ELECTRO-ACTIVE POLYMER ACTUATORS; ELECTRO-ACTIVE POLYMERS; ELECTROACTIVE; EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES; INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY; NEUROREHABILITATION; POLYMERIC MATERIAL; STRAIN SENSING; UPPER LIMBS; WEARABLE INTERFACES;

BIOLOGY; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; HAPTIC INTERFACES; MUSCLE; ORGANIC POLYMERS;

POLYMERS;

EID: 77950983734     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5334481     Document Type: Conference Paper

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