
Rehabilitation Robotics
Technology and Application
Description
Key Features
- Provides a comprehensive review of recent developments in the area of rehabilitation robotics
- Includes information on both therapeutic and assistive robots
- Focuses on the state-of-the-art and representative advancements in the design, control, analysis, implementation and validation of rehabilitation robotic systems
Readership
Table of Contents
1. Physiological basis of neuromotor recovery
2. An overall framework for neurorehabilitation robotics: implications for recovery
3. Biomechatronic design criteria of systems for robot-mediated rehabilitation therapy
4. Actuators and sensors for rehabilitation and prosthetic robots
5. Assistive controllers and modalities for robot-aided neurorehabilitation
6. Exoskeletons for upper limb rehabilitation
7. Exoskeletons for lower limb rehabilitation
8. Performance measures in robot-assisted assessment of sensorimotor functions
9. Computational models of the recovery process in robot-assisted training
10. Control of rehabilitation robots: from guidance to interaction
11. Promoting motivation during robot-assisted rehabilitation
12. Software platforms for integrating robots and virtual environments
13. Twenty+ Years of Robotics for Upper Extremity Rehabilitation following a Stroke
14. Three-dimensional, task-specific robot therapy
15. Robot-assisted therapy of hand function
16. Robot-assisted gait training
17. Wearable robotic applications for neurorehabilitation
18. Robot–assisted rehabilitation in multiple sclerosis
19. Robots for cognitive rehabilitation and symptom management
20. Hybrid NMES-robot devices for training of activities of daily living
21. Robotic techniques for evaluation and training of proprioceptive deficits
22. Psychophysiological responses during robot-assisted rehabilitation
23. The role of muscle synergies in robot-assisted neurorehabilitation
24. Telerehabilitation Robotics
Product details
- No. of pages: 382
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2018
- Published: March 8, 2018
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780128119969
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128119952
About the Editors
Roberto Colombo
His research interests include: robot-aided neuro-rehabilitation, muscle tone and spasticity evaluation, muscle force and fatigue assessment, speech production mechanisms study, respiratory mechanics assessment, assessment of autonomic function through heart rate variability analysis., He has authored over 100 papers and is co-editor of a book on the subject of speech production mechanisms.
Affiliations and Expertise
Vittorio Sanguineti
He Has Been working as a post-doctoral fellow at Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, France (1995-1996), at McGill University, Montreal, Canada (1996), and at Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, USA (1997-1998 and 2000 ).
His main areas of interest are the neural control of movement (upper limb, orofacial and postural control), motor learning and the applications of robotics to neuromotor rehabilitation.