M.C. Plooij
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During gait neurorehabilitation, many factors influence the quality of gait patterns, particularly the chosen body-weight support (BWS) device. Consequently, robotic BWS devices play a key role in gait rehabilitation of people with neurological disorders. The device transparen ...
Simulation of human gait with body weight support
Benchmarking models and unloading strategies
BACKGROUND: Gait training with partial body weight support (BWS) has become an established rehabilitation technique. Besides passive unloading mechanisms such as springs or counterweights, also active systems that allow rendering constant or modulated vertical forces have been ...
Influence of body weight unloading on human gait characteristics
A systematic review
Background: Body weight support (BWS) systems have shown promise as rehabilitation tools for neurologically impaired individuals. This paper reviews the experiment-based research on BWS systems with the aim: (1) To investigate the influence of body weight unloading (BWU) on ga ...
Design of RYSEN
An intrinsically safe and low-power three-dimensional overground body weight support
Parallel elastic actuators (PEAs) have shown the ability to reduce the energy consumption of robots. However, regular PEAs do not allow us to freely choose at which instant or configuration to store or release energy. This paper introduces the concept and design of the bidirec ...