Download or read book DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF LOW COST HAND FINGER EXOSKELETON FOR REHABILITATION OF STROKE PATIENT written by WALEED RAUF (TP024225) and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Design and Development of a Portable Five fingered Hand Rehabilitation Exoskeleton written by Harish Devaraj and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this thesis is to present a low cost, lightweight and portable five-fingered hand exoskeleton in order to help post-stroke patients regain and improve their somatic motor functions. Human hands are the most dexterous and the most versatile part of the human body. The complexity of the hand anatomical structure as well as its wide range of Degrees of Freedom (DOF) capabilities makes the development of a rehabilitation hand exoskeleton highly demanding and challenging. The proposed five-fingered hand exoskeleton integrates three major modules: finger modules, dorsal plate module and actuator housing. The finger modules, stereo-lithographed from epoxy resin and laser cut from aluminum sheets, are assembled on to the dorsal plate module laser cut from Perspex, thereby placing a robust yet lightweight system over the patient's hand. The movements of these finger modules are achieved by implementing pneumatic artificial muscles (air muscles) with antagonist springs to keep each air muscle in extended state. These air muscles are mounted on an aluminum actuator housing designed to be worn around the forearm. A pair of air muscles controls each of the finger modules with the exception of the thumb module which is actuated by a linear actuator and air muscle simultaneously. When actuated, the linear pull of the air muscles is translated to flexion of the finger modules by means of braided dial cords analogous to the tendon muscles. Elastomers present in the upper surface of the finger modules cause finger extension and at the same time maintains the tendon cable tension with minimal impact on actuator performance. The interphalangeal joints are coupled together and are actuated simultaneously by a single air muscle while the second air muscle actuates the metacarpophalangeal joint. Integrated with the air musclespring assembly, a novel polypyrrole based strain sensor provides feedback on the orientation of the finger modules. The user interacts with the hand exoskeleton via a LabVIEW based Graphical User Interface (GUI). A PID controller embedded within the LabVIEW program controls the rate of finger module movements. The hardware linking the LabVIEW GUI with the exoskeleton system includes data acquisition device, electronic interface circuitry and a set of electro-pneumatic pressure regulating valves. The prototype's effectiveness testing covered joint motion analysis, positional capabilities, range of motion measurements and other factors that validate the usage of exoskeleton as a safe and reliable rehabilitation device. With an effectiveness of up to 81%, this work validates the prototype as a possible rehabilitation device.

Download or read book Design and Development of Bionic 3D Printed Upper limb Exoskeleton for Stroke Rehabilitation written by Yousef Alshahrani and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those who have had a stroke need long-term physical rehabilitation treatments. The conventional manual hands-on method is time-consuming and cannot offer low-cost, long-term rehabilitation services. Furthermore, the hands-on method is subjective and is dependent on the competence level of physiotherapists. To address these problems, more research and effort are being directed into the development of robotic-assisted rehabilitation technologies. For decades, upper-limb exoskeleton devices have been researched and developed for upper-limb rehabilitation. Some products have been tested on post-stroke patients. However, there are many limits and problems in this field. It currently needs a bionic mechanical design for the upper-limb exoskeleton, focusing mainly on human-machine joint misalignment. Furthermore, upper-limb exoskeleton volitional control is still far from acceptable.In this study, previous attempts to develop an upper-limb exoskeleton were discussed. Important challenges related to mechanical exoskeleton design and control strategy development were undertaken. A new robot control mechanism, known as the mirror or synchronous motion-control method, was developed, as well as tactics for promoting robotic systems in clinical usage. Six healthy individuals participated in an experiment to verify the performance of the motion-controlled upper-limb (UL) exoskeleton. In a 2D panel, the UL exoskeleton executed sketching movements based on the UL movements of a healthy participant. To evaluate the accuracy of the drawing performance, the drawings produced by the UL exoskeleton were compared to drawings done by the participant. To evaluate the inter-rater agreement between the drawings, and thus evaluate UL exoskeleton performance, a reliability statistical study (Cronbach test) was conducted and an image comparison using Python was performed to see the accuracy.

Download or read book Using Robotic Hand Technology for the Rehabilitation of Recovering Stroke Patients with Loss of Hand Power written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stroke is the third leading cause of death in the United States. Nearly 700,000 people suffered from stroke last year and two thirds of them survived but were left with any number of disabilities, one such disability is upper extremity hemiplegia. If the hand and arm doesn't have therapy immediately after stroke, it will lose it power and muscle control, resulting in a claw like appearance and loss of function. Activities of the patient daily living will be significantly effected. Current therapy on the affected limb in the hospital is expensive and difficult to manage due to the limited amount of resources compared to the number of patients. We introduce a pneumatic actuated wearable hand and forearm device in this thesis. It is designed according to the hand and arm kinematics. It can help the patients keep power on each finger and help maintain the coordination of different fingers to achieve daily living movements. It consists of forearm brace, rehabilitation glove and artificial muscles. The custom made artificial muscles also known as McKibben Artificial Muscles are used in antagonistic pairs to control the fingers flexion and extension. The rehabilitation device is small, lightweight, home-based, and has large force capabilities. It is also affordable to the patients due to the specially designed low-cost artificial muscles. The rehabilitation device was controlled by solenoid valves in conjunction with a Mitsubishi M32/83C 16-bit micro controller. Experiments on the pneumatic elbow brace have shown that it is capable of moving each finger from full extension to flexion, to perform actions like pinching and allows the coordinated movement of two fingers.

Download or read book Design of a Dexterous Three Fingered Hand Exoskeleton for Stroke Patient Rehabilitation written by Brando Dimapasoc and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stroke is a leading cause of disability worldwide, and much attention has been focused to technologies to aid in recovery. This thesis details the design of a dexterous hand exoskeleton for use in stroke patient rehabilitation exercises. This device is able to accommodate a wide range of users and can be adjusted to support a number of different grasping motions. The features that allow this versatility are explained. The exoskeleton is actuated through a Bowden cable system and employs an admittance control strategy. The kinematics-based optimization created to design the manipulator links is presented in detail.

Download or read book Wearable Robotics written by Jacob Rosen and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2019-11-16 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wearable Robotics: Systems and Applications provides a comprehensive overview of the entire field of wearable robotics, including active orthotics (exoskeleton) and active prosthetics for the upper and lower limb and full body. In its two major sections, wearable robotics systems are described from both engineering perspectives and their application in medicine and industry. Systems and applications at various levels of the development cycle are presented, including those that are still under active research and development, systems that are under preliminary or full clinical trials, and those in commercialized products. This book is a great resource for anyone working in this field, including researchers, industry professionals and those who want to use it as a teaching mechanism. Provides a comprehensive overview of the entire field, with both engineering and medical perspectives Helps readers quickly and efficiently design and develop wearable robotics for healthcare applications

Download or read book DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF A ROBOTIC FINGER EXOSKELETON FOR REHABILITATION written by Mahasak Surakijboworn and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current ROM (range of motion) rehabilitation is done by a therapist helping each patient individually, which can be done more effectively and efficiently by robotic devices. The goal of this work is to design and develop a robotic finger exoskeleton system as a CPM device for finger ROM rehabilitation. The research introduces a novel mechanism for finger exoskeleton design. The main concepts of the proposed design are having no interference and no translational forces on phalanges. The finger exoskeleton consists of 3 identical joint mechanisms which, for each, adopt a six-bar RCM as an equivalent revolute joint incorporating with 2 prismatic joints to form a close-loop mechanism with one anatomical joint. Cable and hose, known as Bowden cable transmission, is adopted to reduce burden from weight of driving modules. The prototype is driven by 3 motors moving flexion/extension of each joint individually, i.e. an MCP (metacarpophalangeal) joint, a PIP (proximal interphalangeal) joint and a DIP (distal interphalangeal) joint. The mechanism concept is preliminarily evaluated by simulation with the real anatomical joint trajectory. The simulation result shows that the mechanism can accommodate 2 adjacent phalanges at all configurations. The requirement based evaluation and the subjective test show that the device can move a subject’s finger with quite natural and unimpeded motion along the predefined path. The device is successfully tested with 14 healthy subjects.

Download or read book Dual Reconfigurable Exoskeleton Hand System with Opposable Thumbs written by Peter Walker Ferguson and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between a global pandemic, aging population, and labor shortages, there is an ongoing spike in the demand for healthcare that cannot be satisfied with traditional methods and the human workforce. Robotic technology offers a solution to this dilemma; applying robotics to healthcare is an active area of research that has begun to be widely commercialized. Whilethere are many potential avenues for robots to improve health and well-being, my research has focused on two areas in particular: the development of robotic hand exoskeletons for rehabilitation and the enhancement of robotic surgery via automation and sensor development. Exoskeletons have been shown to be effective for use in physical rehabilitation of numerous conditions including spinal cord injury and stroke. However, at present, the huge majority of exoskeleton systems are constructed for only the arm (from shoulder to wrist), back, lower limbs, or hands. Few systems have been developed that combine both full arm and hand systems, and those that do generally have limited actuation of the hand. This is partly because the mechanical complexity of the hand requires rigid hand exoskeletons to be complex and bulky if they are able to control many of the important degrees of freedom. This bulk and complexity makes the hand systems challenging to successfully integrate onto the distal end of an arm exoskeleton. However, there is significant demand for combined arm and hand rehabilitation exoskeletons because many activities of daily living, that physical therapy focuses on retraining, require reaching and grasping together. The overarching goals of this research are to develop a novel hand exoskeleton, experimentally evaluate its capabilities in preparation for application to stroke rehabilitation, and integrate it on the existing EXO-UL8 and concurrently developed BLUE SABINO upper limb exoskeleton systems. Chapter 1 provides an introduction on hand exoskeleton systems, with a focus on those designed for rehabilitation. My work on hand exoskeletons started by inheriting a hand exoskeleton mechanical design from Brando Dimapasoc, a graduating Master's Degree student, that was developed as part of NSF Award #1532239. The system was intended to be attached to the EXO-UL8 and BLUE SABINO arm exoskeletons, had six active and six passive degrees of freedom, had three reconfigurable linkages to control the thumb and two groupings of fingers, used a bowden cable transmission system to enable remote placement of actuators, and was optimized to fit 90% of the general population. However, the design had only been tested as a 3D-printed prototype in a modified and simplified form. Further, the necessary electronic hardware (other than motor and sensor selection) and control software had not been started. Thus, the first stage of my research was to bring this first-generation hand exoskeleton to a functional state. This involved the mechanical assembly, the electrical design and assembly, and the software and control development of the system. Through testing, it was determined that a significant number of improvements must be made to the system in order for it to be suitable for use. Details of this work are contained in Chapter 2. With the lessons learned from development and testing of the first-generation hand exoskeleton, the next stage of my research involved the nearly complete redesign of the system in order to create the second-generation hand exoskeleton named the "Opposable-Thumb Hand Exoskeleton for Rehabilitation" or "OTHER Hand". As the name implies, the system is designed to control opposition/reposition of the thumb in addition to the flexion/extension of each digit. This is a notable feature, not only because of the importance of opposition/reposition in many grasping tasks, but also because only a handful of exoskeletons in the literature control this motion. The OTHER Hand shares a number of features with the first generation system, though the execution of each is different. It attaches to both the EXO-UL8 and BLUE SABINO arm exoskeletons, is actuated using a Bowden Cable transmission such that the motor pack can be located remotely, has three reconfigurable linkages to control the thumb and two groupings of fingers in order to enable nearly all grasps, and is optimized to fit 90% of the population. The system has six active and eight passive degrees of freedom per hand. Chapter 3 documents the design of the OTHER Hand. Due to the numerous novel design choices made for the OTHER Hand, combined with the mechanical complexity of the hand in general, and thumb in particular, it is not feasible to know with certainty the types of grasps that can be actuated in the exoskeleton for the wide range of hand shapes and sizes. As such, it is necessary to validate the design of the OTHER Hand through testing with a group of subjects. This was accomplished through adaptation of the Anthropomorphic Hand Assessment Protocol for use with an exoskeleton to test the ability of thirteen subjects to grasp and manipulate 25 objects of the Yale-Carnegie Mellon-Berkeley Object Set using eight prehensile grasps and two non-prehensile hand postures. Additionally, the OTHER Hand was mounted on the EXO-UL8, and both systems were manually controlled to verify compatibility, workspace, and ability to bi-manually grasp a sample object. Chapter 4 presents the testing protocol and results. While exoskeletons for rehabilitation is an increasingly popular research area, robotic surgical platforms already have widespread commercial use and profound effects on clinical outcomes. Classically, these systems are controlled directly by a surgeon at a console in the same or adjacent room. They can augment the senses and movement precision of the surgeon during open or laparoscopic surgery in order to enhance the surgeon's skills. However, surgeons commonly work exceptionally long hours in an environment where a single mistake can be fatal. Additionally, certain surgical subtasks are time-consuming, repetitive, and common to many different operations. Automating these subtasks has the potential to reduce the burden on surgeons while standardizing outcomes. Automation of one such subtask, soft tissue manipulation, is described in Chapter 5. Cataract surgery ranks among the most common operating room procedures worldwide. The aim of the surgery is to replace the clouded biological lens with a clear synthetic lens. Despite the prevalence, this operation is currently performed manually by a surgeon, and generally is fast, standardized, and safe. However, the human body is notably non-optimal for performing cataract surgery due to the transparency and fragility of the tissues of the eye. In order to remove the lens, it is standard to break it apart with phacoemulsification, use an irrigation/aspiration handpiece to aspirate the lens material, and then polish any remaining lens material from the capsular bag. Unfortunately, the back of this bag, the posterior capsule, is transparent, mere microns thin, and easily ruptured from contact, ultrasound energy, or pressure. Rupturing the posterior capsule causes the vitreous of the inner eye to spill out, resulting in critical failure of the surgery. Additional information about the location of the tool tip within the eye could be used to reduce the risk of such a failure. To this end, a proof-of-concept modification of a tool to add bioelectrical impedance sensing and tissue classification was developed and tested on porcine eyes. This research is summarized in Chapter 6

Download or read book Control and Dynamic Manipulability of a Dual Arm Hand Robotic Exoskeleton System EXO UL8 for Rehabilitation Training in Virtual Reality written by Yang Shen and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every year there are about 800,000 new stroke patients in the US, and many of them suffer from upper limb neuromuscular disabilities including but not limited to: weakness, spasticity and abnormal synergy. Patients usually have the potential to rehabilitate (to some extent) based on neuroplasticity, and physical therapy intervention helps accelerate the recovery. However, many patients could not afford the expensive physical therapy after the onset of stroke, and miss the opportunity to get recovered. Robot-assisted rehabilitation thus might be the solution, with the following unparalleled advantages: (1) 24/7 capability of human arm gravity compensation; (2) multi-joint movement coordination/correction, which could not be easily done by human physical therapists; (3) dual-arm training, either coupled in joint space or task space; (4) quantitative platform for giving instructions, providing assistance, exerting resistance, and collecting real-time data in kinematics, dynamics and biomechanics; (5) potential training protocol personalization; etc. However, in the rehabilitation robotics field, there are still many open problems. I am especially interested in: (1) compliant control, in high-dimensional multi-joint coordination condition; (2) assist-as-needed (AAN) control, in quantitative model-based approach and model-free approach; (3) dual-arm training, in both symmetric and asymmetric modes; (4) system integration, e.g., virtual reality (VR) serious games and graphical user interfaces (GUIs) design and development. Our dual-arm/hand robotic exoskeleton system, EXO-UL8, is in its 4th generation, with seven (7) arm degrees-of-freedom (DOFs) and one (1) DOF hand gripper enabling hand opening and closing on each side. While developing features on this research platform, I contributed to the robotics research field in the following aspects: (1) I designed and developed a series of eighteen (18) serious VR games and GUIs that could be used for interactive post-stroke rehabilitation training. The VR environment, together with the exoskeleton robot, provides patients and physical therapists a quantitative rehabilitation training platform with capability in real-time human performance data collection and analysis. (2) To provide better compliant control, my colleagues and I proposed and implemented two new admittance controllers, based on the work done by previous research group alumni. Both the hyper parameter-based and Kalman Filter-based admittance controllers have satisfactory heuristic performance, and the latter is more promising in future adaptation. Unlike many other upper-limb exoskeletons, our current system utilizes force and torque (F/T) sensors and position encoders only, no surface electromyography (sEMG) signals are used. It brings convenience to practical use, as well as technical challenges. (3) To provide better AAN control, which is still not well understood in the academia, I worked out a redundant version of modified dynamic manipulability ellipsoid (DME) model to propose an Arm Postural Stability Index (APSI) to quantify the difficulty heterogeneity of the 3D Cartesian workspace. The theoretical framework could be used to teach the exoskeleton where and when to provide assistance, and to guide the virtual reality where to add new minimal challenges to stroke patients. To the best of my knowledge, it is also for the first time that human arm redundancy resolution was investigated when arm gravity is considered. (4) For the first time, my colleagues and I have done a pilot study on asymmetric dual-arm training using the exoskeleton system on one (1) post-stroke patient. The exoskeleton on the healthy side could trigger assistance for that on the affected side, and validates that the current mechanism/control is eligible for asymmetric dual-arm training. (5) Other works of mine include: activities of daily living (ADLs) data visualization for VR game difficulty design; human arm synergy modeling; dual-arm manipulation taxonomy classification (on-going work).

Download or read book Design of a Single degree of freedom Exoskeleton for Thumb Rehabilitation in Conjunction with FINGER written by Kyle J. Morse and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis presents the development of an exoskeleton for post-stroke thumb rehabilitation. This exoskeleton is a six-bar planar single-degree-of-freedom mechanism that controls the position and angle of the middle phalanx of the thumb. It is an add-on for the finger rehabilitation device FINGER for grasp training, which is a fundamental activity of daily living. The trajectory of the middle phalanx of a healthy human thumb was characterized with color-marker based motion tracking. Mechanisms were synthesized by minimizing the error between the end-effector of the mechanism solutions and the trajectory of the thumb. A mechanism solution was selected for design based on its manufacturability and mechanical advantage. Both the mechanism and an adjustable module to attach the mechanism to the housing for FINGER were designed, then manufactured using a combination of additive manufacturing and CNC machining. This provided a prototype for evaluation to inform future design efforts.

Download or read book 2nd International Conference for Innovation in Biomedical Engineering and Life Sciences written by Fatimah Ibrahim and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-06 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the proceedings of ICIBEL 2017, organized by the Centre for Innovation in Medical Engineering (CIME) under Innovative Technology Research Cluster, University of Malaya. It was held in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, from 10-13 December 2017. The ICIBEL 2017 conference promotes the latest research and developments related to the integration of the Engineering technology in medical fields and life sciences. This includes the latest innovations, research trends and concerns, challenges and adopted solution in the field of medical engineering and life sciences.

Download or read book The Design and Development of a Prototype Neuro rehabilitation Device for Robot Assisted Hand Therapy Following Stroke written by Matthew B. Wagner and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Rehabilitation Robotics written by Roberto Colombo and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rehabilitation Robotics gives an introduction and overview of all areas of rehabilitation robotics, perfect for anyone new to the field. It also summarizes available robot technologies and their application to different pathologies for skilled researchers and clinicians. The editors have been involved in the development and application of robotic devices for neurorehabilitation for more than 15 years. This experience using several commercial devices for robotic rehabilitation has enabled them to develop the know-how and expertise necessary to guide those seeking comprehensive understanding of this topic. Each chapter is written by an expert in the respective field, pulling in perspectives from both engineers and clinicians to present a multi-disciplinary view. The book targets the implementation of efficient robot strategies to facilitate the re-acquisition of motor skills. This technology incorporates the outcomes of behavioral studies on motor learning and its neural correlates into the design, implementation and validation of robot agents that behave as ‘optimal’ trainers, efficiently exploiting the structure and plasticity of the human sensorimotor systems. In this context, human-robot interaction plays a paramount role, at both the physical and cognitive level, toward achieving a symbiotic interaction where the human body and the robot can benefit from each other’s dynamics. Provides a comprehensive review of recent developments in the area of rehabilitation robotics Includes information on both therapeutic and assistive robots Focuses on the state-of-the-art and representative advancements in the design, control, analysis, implementation and validation of rehabilitation robotic systems

Download or read book Development of a Pneumatic Hand Training Device for Stroke Rehabilitation written by Gregory Jackson and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Human Hand as an Inspiration for Robot Hand Development written by Ravi Balasubramanian and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-01-03 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Human Hand as an Inspiration for Robot Hand Development” presents an edited collection of authoritative contributions in the area of robot hands. The results described in the volume are expected to lead to more robust, dependable, and inexpensive distributed systems such as those endowed with complex and advanced sensing, actuation, computation, and communication capabilities. The twenty-four chapters discuss the field of robotic grasping and manipulation viewed in light of the human hand’s capabilities and push the state-of-the-art in robot hand design and control. Topics discussed include human hand biomechanics, neural control, sensory feedback and perception, and robotic grasp and manipulation. This book will be useful for researchers from diverse areas such as robotics, biomechanics, neuroscience, and anthropologists.

Download or read book Neurorehabilitation Technology written by David J. Reinkensmeyer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 771 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised, updated, and substantially expanded third edition provides an accessible, practical overview of major areas of research, technical development and clinical application in the field of neurorehabilitation movement therapy. The initial section provides the basic framework and a rationale for technology application in movement therapy by summarizing recent findings in neuroplasticity and motor learning. The following section provides a detailed overview of the movement physiology of various neurologic conditions, illustrating how this knowledge has been used to design various neurorehabilitation technologies. The third section then explains the principles of human-machine interaction for movement rehabilitation. The fourth section provides an overview of assessment technology and predictive modeling in neurorehabilitation. The fifth section provides a survey of technological approaches to neurorehabilitation, including spinal cord stimulation, functional electrical stimulation, virtual reality, wearable sensing, brain computer interfaces, mobile technologies, and telerehabilitation. The final two sections examine in greater detail the ongoing revolution in robotic therapy for upper extremity movement and walking, respectively. The promises and limitations of these technologies in neurorehabilitation are discussed, including an Epilogue which debates the impact and utility of robotics for neurorehabilitation. Throughout the book the chapters provide detailed practical information on state-of-the-art clinical applications of these devices following stroke, spinal cord injury, and other neurologic disorders and future developments in the field. The text is illustrated throughout with photographs and schematic diagrams which serve to clarify the information for the reader. Neurorehabilitation Technology, Third Edition is a valuable resource for neurologists, biomedical engineers, roboticists, rehabilitation specialists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and those training in these fields. Chapter “Spinal Cord Stimulation to Enable Leg Motor Control and Walking in People with Spinal Cord Injury is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Download or read book Intelligent Biomechatronics in Neurorehabilitation written by Xiaoling Hu and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2019-10-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intelligent Biomechatronics in Neurorehabilitation presents global research and advancements in intelligent biomechatronics and its applications in neurorehabilitation. The book covers our current understanding of coding mechanisms in the nervous system, from the cellular level, to the system level in the design of biological and robotic interfaces. Developed biomechatronic systems are introduced as successful examples to illustrate the fundamental engineering principles in the design. The third part of the book covers the clinical performance of biomechatronic systems in trial studies. Finally, the book introduces achievements in the field and discusses commercialization and clinical challenges. As the aging population continues to grow, healthcare providers are faced with the challenge of developing long-term rehabilitation for neurological disorders, such as stroke, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases. Intelligent biomechatronics provide a seamless interface and real-time interactions with a biological system and the external environment, making them key to automation services. Written by international experts in the rehabilitation and bioinstrumentation industries Covers the current understanding of nervous system coding mechanisms, which are the basis for biological and robotic interfaces Demonstrates and discusses robotic rehabilitation effectiveness and automatic evaluation