...Daniel Sanz‐Merodio; Manuel Cestari; Juan Carlos Arevalo; Elena Garcia Purpose Lower‐limb exoskeletons and powered orthoses are external devices that assist patients with locomotive disorders to achieve correct limb movements. Current batteries cannot meet the long‐term power requirements...

...Y. Mori; K. Maejima; K. Inoue; N. Shiroma; Y. Fukuoka Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe a standing style transfer system, ABLE, designed to enable a person with disabled lower limbs to do daily‐life activities without special infrastructure. Actually, ABLE is mainly intended for use...

...Koichi Kirihara; Norihiko Saga; Naoki Saito Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe the development of a device to support rehabilitation of a patient's upper limb motion. Design/methodology/approach The device has five degrees of freedom by virtue of its link mechanism. It consists...

... requirements are reduced with use of a unique design that employs regenerative kinetics. Joseph Hitt can be contacted at: joseph.hitt@usma.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Rehabilitation Robotics Prosthetic devices Limbs Mechanical systems Control technology There have...

... be contacted at: mmxie@ntu.edu.sg; ming.xie@ robotics.sg © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Robotics Walking aids Limbs Control technology Here, we focus on the problem of how to plan and control such a big and heavy robot. And, the basic idea behind the proposed method is two folds...