Feasibility of Hybrid Gait Training with Kinesis Overground Robot for Persons with incomplete Spinal Cord Injury

Antonio J. del-Ama, Ángel Gil-Agudo, José L. Pons, Juan C. Moreno

2013

Abstract

Hybrid actuation and control have a considerable potential for walking rehabilitation but there is a need of novel hybrid control strategies that adequately manage the balance between FES and robotic controllers. A hybrid co-operative control strategy for overground gait training with a wearable robotic exoskeleton for persons with incomplete spinal cord injury (SCI) is presented. The feasibility of the control strategy to overcome muscular stimulation electro-mechanical delay, deterioration of muscle performance over time, and to balance muscular and robotic actuation cyclic overground walking is tested in one subject with incomplete spinal cord injury (L4, ASIA grade D). The results demonstrate that the proposed hybrid cooperative control in Kinesis overground robot is able to autonomously compensate a bilateral pathologic walking pattern and the suitability of Kinesis hybrid gait training robot for conducting clinical experimentation.

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del-Ama A., Gil-Agudo Á., Pons J. and Moreno J. (2013). Feasibility of Hybrid Gait Training with Kinesis Overground Robot for Persons with incomplete Spinal Cord Injury . In Proceedings of the International Congress on Neurotechnology, Electronics and Informatics - Volume 1: RoboAssist, (NEUROTECHNIX 2013) ISBN 978-989-8565-80-8, pages 190-193. DOI: 10.5220/0004659701900193


in Bibtex Style

@conference{roboassist13,
author={Antonio J. del-Ama and Ángel Gil-Agudo and José L. Pons and Juan C. Moreno},
title={Feasibility of Hybrid Gait Training with Kinesis Overground Robot for Persons with incomplete Spinal Cord Injury},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Congress on Neurotechnology, Electronics and Informatics - Volume 1: RoboAssist, (NEUROTECHNIX 2013)},
year={2013},
pages={190-193},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004659701900193},
isbn={978-989-8565-80-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Congress on Neurotechnology, Electronics and Informatics - Volume 1: RoboAssist, (NEUROTECHNIX 2013)
TI - Feasibility of Hybrid Gait Training with Kinesis Overground Robot for Persons with incomplete Spinal Cord Injury
SN - 978-989-8565-80-8
AU - del-Ama A.
AU - Gil-Agudo Á.
AU - Pons J.
AU - Moreno J.
PY - 2013
SP - 190
EP - 193
DO - 10.5220/0004659701900193