Robot-assisted physiotherapy offers a promising avenue for easing the burden on
healthcare professionals and providing treatment in the comfort of one's home. Typically …

The development of mechatronics led to the fusion of this field with others, including
medicine. Thanks to these, many processes can be at least partially automatised [1]. Such …

Rate-dependent hysteresis has been an obstacle to the modeling and control of
magnetorheological fluid devices, such as magnetorheological fluid clutches (MRFCs) for …

Lower-limb gait training (GT) exoskeletons have been successfully used in rehabilitation
programs to overcome the burden of locomotor impairment. However, providing suitable net …

Robot assisted physiotherapy has the potential to reduce the workload of healthcare
professionals and deliver interventions in the comfort of the home. In general, physiotherapy …

Robot-assisted rehabilitation is expected to reduce locomotor limitations of children and
young adults with Cerebral Palsy (CP). However, to achieve this result, it is essential that the …

In this work, we develop a compact, low-power and partially 3D-printed magnetorheological
fluid clutch that operates by variably and reversibly altering the shear stress of the fluid …

This work proposes a modular learning framework (MIRA) for rehabilitation robots based on
a new deep recurrent neural network (RNN) that achieves adaptive multi-joint motion …

This dissertation presents novel, field-activated smart material systems for the actuation and
control of autonomous robots. Smart materials, a type of material whose properties can be …

In this study, we present a biomimetic mixed reality (MR) wearable device that enables users
to experience the dynamic multiphase pressure of avatar locomotion within metaverse …