Amelin, Dmitry Potapov, Ivan Audí, Josep Cardona Kogut, Andreas Rupp, Rüdiger Ruff, Roman Hoffmann, Klaus-Peter
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This paper reports on the evaluation of recurrent and convolutional neural networks as real-time grasp phase classifiers for future control of neuroprostheses for people with high spinal cord injury. A field-programmable gate array has been chosen as an implementation platform due to its form factor and ability to perform parallel computations, whi...
Dvorani, Ardit Wiesener, Constantin Valtin, Markus Voigt, Hanno Kühn, Andrea Wenger, Nikolaus Schauer, Thomas
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Parkinson’s disease (PD) is one of the most common neurodegenerative diseases in the world which mainly affects the human’s motor systems. An estimated number of 7–10 million people worldwide suffer from PD. In Germany, the number of people affected by PD lies at about 300,000 and the number rises every year by approximately 13,000. One of the card...
Bornmann, Jonas Schirrmeister, Benjamin Parth, Torsten Gonzalez-Vargas, Jose
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The article describes the designers’ perspectives for development and implementation of industrial exoskeletons. Findings are based on the research and own development of commercial available exoskeletons. The authors describe and emphasize the importance of a user centered design and implementation process.
Richter, Julia Beltrán, Raul Beltrán Heinkel, Ulrich
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In view of therapeutic applications, climbing motion analysis has gained increased importance to avoid movements that are prone to cause injuries and to motivate the climber by means of gamification. To date, there remains need to investigate analysis methods for feedback generation that do not require body contact and that can be easily integrated...
Velten, Thomas Knoll, Thorsten Stracke, Frank Le Harzic, Ronan Jaeger, Tino Rammensee, Michael Kurz, Oliver Klesy, Stephan Januschowski, Kai Sermeus, Loic
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We present the first results of work towards a foil-based epiretinal prosthesis that can stimulate retinal cells. The prosthesis receives trigger signals and energy in the form of high intensity infrared radiation. Array-like silicon photodiodes with attached thin film electrodes convert the received infrared light into electrical stimulation signa...
Olze, Heidi Vater, Jana Szczepek, Agnieszka J. Reich, Uta Gräbel, Stefan Uecker, Florian Cornelius
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Tinnitus is a phantom percept of noise heard only by the affected person. The principal problem of persons suffering from tinnitus is the inability to deflect their attention from the phantom sound, resulting in insomnia and problems with concentration, followed by significant health issues. To date, no therapy would relieve patients from the phant...
Vertongen, Jens Kamper, Derek
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Stroke survivors often have difficulty performing activities of daily living (ADLs) due to hand impairments. Several assistive devices have been developed for stroke survivors to assist them with ADLs but most of these devices are difficult to don and doff for a stroke survivor due to highly flexed postures of the wrist and digits. This paper prese...
Jankowski, Natalie Ivanova, Ekaterina Wiehe, Lea Wahl, Michael
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Objectives This pilot field study aimed to detect long-term changes in technology acceptance (TAM), user experience (UX) during use of an experimental demonstrator Bi-Manu-Interact (BMI) in stroke rehabilitation. Methods In 10 therapy sessions, patients performed a 20 min workout per session with the BMI. Patients with stroke were interviewed after...
Schmidt, Katharina Hochmann, David
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Small sensor devices like inertial measurement units enable mobile movement and gait analysis, whereby existing systems differ in data acquisition, data processing, and gait parameter calculation. Concerning the validation, recent studies focus on the captured motion and the influence of sensor positioning with respect to the accuracy of the comput...
Kerkhoff, Annette Wagner, Heiko Peikenkamp, Klaus
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In motion analysis marker sets or protocols are mostly developed for gait analysis and it has been shown that the marker set used affects the results of gait analysis. These marker sets are also used for the analysis of high dynamic sports movements. Single-leg landings are a common tool to investigate functional knee stability and further to predi...
