Kinesthetic and haptic interfaces between humans and machines are currently und under development in a truly er wearable form, using innovative technologies based on electroactive polymers. The integration of electroactive polymeric materials into wearable garments is becoming a viable mean to confer the garment strain sensing and actuation properties. In this paper, the implementation and testing of fabric-based wearable interfaces for the upper limb endowed with spatially redundant strain sensing are reported. Electroactive polymer actuators, which we are currently investigating, are discussed with emphasis given to their unique capabilities in the phenomenol phenomenological mimicking of skeletal ogical muscle actuation and control. Finally, current work in preliminary evaluation of prototyp prototypes in the field of post-stroke es rehabilitation is also briefly presented.
Wearable kinesthetic systems and emerging technologies in actuation for upperlimb neurorehabilitation / De Rossi, Danilo; Carpi, Federico; Lorussi, Federico; Scilingo, Enzo Pasquale; Tognetti, Alessandro. - ELETTRONICO. - 2009:(2009), pp. 6830-6833. (Intervento presentato al convegno 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009 tenutosi a Minneapolis, MN, usa nel 2009) [10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5334481].
Wearable kinesthetic systems and emerging technologies in actuation for upperlimb neurorehabilitation
CARPI, FEDERICO;
2009
Abstract
Kinesthetic and haptic interfaces between humans and machines are currently und under development in a truly er wearable form, using innovative technologies based on electroactive polymers. The integration of electroactive polymeric materials into wearable garments is becoming a viable mean to confer the garment strain sensing and actuation properties. In this paper, the implementation and testing of fabric-based wearable interfaces for the upper limb endowed with spatially redundant strain sensing are reported. Electroactive polymer actuators, which we are currently investigating, are discussed with emphasis given to their unique capabilities in the phenomenol phenomenological mimicking of skeletal ogical muscle actuation and control. Finally, current work in preliminary evaluation of prototyp prototypes in the field of post-stroke es rehabilitation is also briefly presented.
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