Background Any individual may experience accidental falls, particularly older adults.
Although robots can prevent falls, knowledge of their fall-preventive use is limited. Objective …

Human locomotion is a coordinated motion between the upper and lower limbs, which
should be considered in terms of both the user's normal walking state and abnormal walking …

Background: Robotic rollators enhance the basic functions of established devices by
technically advanced physical, cognitive, or sensory support to increase autonomy in …

In recent years the increased rate of the aging population has become more serious. With
aging, the elderly sometimes inevitably faces many problems which lead to slow walking …

In response to an aging society, a robot walking helper has come up as a research focus. To
be practical for use in daily lives for the elderly, it should be able to follow user intention …

As the elderly population is rapidly growing in our society, robot walking helpers are
receiving more attention these days. To be practical and safe for use in daily life, an …

Population aging of the societies requires providing the elderly with safe and dependable
assistive technologies in daily life activities. Improving the fall detection algorithms can play …

There is a considerable number of people with balance problems. Thus, the development of
devices that can support and aid patients these patients is a very important question in our …

Clinical evaluation of frailty in the elderly is the first step to decide the degree of assistance
they require. Advances in robotics make it possible to turn a standard assistance device into …

The advent of serial communication links in chip-to-chip and system-to-system applications
has resulted in intense focus on jitter and BER testing techniques, including jitter generation …