{"title":"Real-time smoothness-based assistance during rhythmic arm movements","authors":"Patricia Leconte, R. Ronsse","doi":"10.1109/BIOROB.2016.7523734","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Rhythmic and discrete movements are two fundamental motor primitives being - at least partially - controlled by different neural pathways. After a stroke, both primitives can be impaired. However, current upper-limb therapies - both conventional and robot-assisted - train mainly discrete functional movements. In order to recover the complete motor repertoire, training both movements should be offered with dedicated exercises. The paper elaborates a new performance-based robotic assistance to train rhythmic movements with a rehabilitation robot. More precisely, it develops and validates a performance-based smoothness assistance. The developed assistance aims at smoothing the movement being performed, based on a real-time estimate of the movement smoothness.","PeriodicalId":235222,"journal":{"name":"2016 6th IEEE International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2016-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2016 6th IEEE International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIOROB.2016.7523734","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Rhythmic and discrete movements are two fundamental motor primitives being - at least partially - controlled by different neural pathways. After a stroke, both primitives can be impaired. However, current upper-limb therapies - both conventional and robot-assisted - train mainly discrete functional movements. In order to recover the complete motor repertoire, training both movements should be offered with dedicated exercises. The paper elaborates a new performance-based robotic assistance to train rhythmic movements with a rehabilitation robot. More precisely, it develops and validates a performance-based smoothness assistance. The developed assistance aims at smoothing the movement being performed, based on a real-time estimate of the movement smoothness.