Giusy Ferzola
Improving active lower-limb exoskeleton performance with the Reaching Movement feature.
Rel. Stefano Paolo Pastorelli, Antonio El Khoury. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Ingegneria Meccanica, 2018
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The number of people with a mobility disorder caused by stroke, spinal cord injury (SCI) or other related diseases is increasing rapidly. Damage to central and peripheral nervous systems often leads to a gait impairment and reduced mobility or, in the worst cases, paralysis: even the activities of daily living (ADLs) become quite challenging. Nowadays, with the goal of giving a normal life back to SCI patients, a new technological achievement has been reached: lower-limb exoskeletons. Lower-limb exoskeletons are wearable robotic devices which provide impaired people with the possibility to perform normal ambulatory functions. The features of standing up/sitting down and walking are features that every exoskeleton commercially available has, since they were born in order to enable system-assisted walking for wheelchair users.
Then, considering the ADLs, people would need, for example, to lower themselves to pick up objects or to lean forward or sideways without losing balance, as it happens for able-bodied subjects
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