Rehabilitation robots have become increasingly common to improve motor function after stroke or spinal cord injury. Despite recent technological advances, robots do not yet outperform manual therapy, as they cannot react adaptively to the demands and needs of individual patients. This book introduces bio-cooperative human-in-the-loop control in the context of rehabilitation robotics: by integrating the human in the control loop of the robot, the robot can become aware of the patient and react adaptively to the patients specific abilities and impairments. The robot thereby not only recognizes...
Rehabilitation robots have become increasingly common to improve motor function after stroke or spinal cord injury. Despite recent technological advan...