Rehabilitation Robotics: Design, Applications and Challenges
A special issue of Machines (ISSN 2075-1702). This special issue belongs to the section "Robotics, Mechatronics and Intelligent Machines".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 2125
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Over the last few decades, the use of robotic devices in the rehabilitation field has expanded and is considered as an effective means to improve conventional therapies. Due to the inherent features of robots, robot-mediated therapy can provide actively powered assistance, precise measurement of motion, and quantitative outcome analysis, resulting in the objective assessment of patient status and proper planning of further treatment. In addition, the rapidly growing AI technologies can facilitate the analysis of measured data and decision-making; therefore, the combination of AI and robotic devices is expected to advance the current rehabilitation technology, resulting in large clinical, economic, and social impacts on the rehabilitation field.
This Special Issue aims to address the state-of-the-art in rehabilitation robotics and identify the future challenges for the successful settlement of rehabilitation robots in clinical and home environments.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Mechanical design of rehabilitation robots for upper and lower limbs.
- Sensing and control architecture for robot-based physical treatment and monitoring.
- AI-based data analysis, assessment, and decision-making for treatment.
- Cognitive assessment and cognitive fitness in combination with robot-based therapy.
- Robots for telerehabilitation, including hardware and software structures.
- Privacy protection in rehabilitation robots.
- Personalization and adaptation in rehabilitation robots.
Dr. Je Hyung Jung
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- rehabilitation robotics
- robotic intervention
- lower limbs
- upper limbs
- AI-based therapy
- telerehabilitation
