A clinical pilot study on posture stabilization via light contact with cane-type companion robot

Abstract In this paper, toward robotic gait assistance, we investigate the feasibility of a cane-type assistive mobile robot accompanying the user autonomously through a clinical pilot experiment. As widely known, gait ability is important for all people to keep their quality of life. However, for p...

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Main Authors: Shunki Itadera, Tadayoshi Aoyama, Yasuhisa Hasegawa, Keita Aimoto, Kenji Kato, Izumi Kondo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019-11-01
Series:ROBOMECH Journal
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40648-019-0145-y