Journal
ARTIFICIAL ORGANS
Volume 34, Issue 8, Pages 663-U1Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1594.2009.00941.x
Keywords
Control systems; Cycling; Electric stimulation therapy; Rehabilitation Stroke
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- Italian Institute of Technology (IIT)
- German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) [FKZ 01EZ0766]
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This study deals with the design of a controller for cycling induced by functional electrical stimulation. The controller will be exploitable in the rehabilitation of hemiparetic patients who need to recover motor symmetry It uses the pulse width as the control variable in the stimulation of the two legs in order to nullify the unbalance between the torques produced at the two crank arms. It was validated by means of isokinetic trials performed both by healthy subjects and stroke patients. The results showed that the controller was able to reach, and then maintain, a symmetrical pedaling. In the future, the controller will be validated on a larger number of stroke patients.
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