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Fig. 12.1 The KINARM robot (a) used in this study has a two-degree-of-freedom planar exoskeleton for each arm (only right arm shown for clarity). The user sits in a chair…

Fig. 13.1 Emerging behaviors, arising from the coupled dynamics of human body and robotic structure interacting with the environment, help the execution of a complex task with low computational efforts….

Fig. 11.1 Examples of different manipulator architecture for upper limb rehabilitation. For the serial mirrored manipulator. (a) MIT Manus [1]; (b) MIME [2]; (c) ARM Guide [3]; (d) ACT 3D…

Fig. 2.1 Karl Dussik’s apparatus to generate ultrasonic waves, built in 1942 (Reproduced from [17]) In 1948, the first Congress of Ultrasound in Medicine was held in Erlangen, Germany; in…

Fig. 1.1 A bookcase containing three different objects (a marker, a rectangular-shaped object and a mug), placed at five different positions, at three different shelves, is depicted. A superimposed diagram…

Fig. 6.1 Test setup. (a) Anklebot fully attached to a human subject while suspended using a compliant strap. (b) Anklebot partially attached to a human subject while suspended using a…

Fig. 5.1 Angle and angle velocity of human hip, knee and ankle in treadmill walking. Hip ankle is calculated between the seventh spine bone, trochanter major and a assumed rotational…

Fig. 14.1 MIT Manus, one of the earliest robotic upper limb rehabilitation systems (Figure reproduced from [35] under the Creative Commons Attribution License) One of the earliest robotic upper limb…

Fig. 10.1 Gait Robot G-EO System (Reha Technology AG [19]) (Published with permission from Reha Technology AG) The Pelvic Assist Manipulator (PAM) developed at the University of California at Irvine…

Fig. 3.1 Intrinsic stiffness of muscles and joints. (a) Short-range stiffness (SRS) for the plantaris muscle of the feline cat limb. Circles show experimental data from a single animal. Solid…