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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299815303321

Autore

Freeman Chris T

Titolo

Iterative Learning Control for Electrical Stimulation and Stroke Rehabilitation / / by Chris T. Freeman, Eric Rogers, Jane H. Burridge, Ann-Marie Hughes, Katie L. Meadmore

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Springer London : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

1-4471-6726-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (130 p.)

Collana

SpringerBriefs in Control, Automation and Robotics, , 2192-6786

Disciplina

610.28

Soggetti

Control engineering

Robotics

Mechatronics

Rehabilitation medicine

Biomedical engineering

Physiotherapy

Control, Robotics, Mechatronics

Rehabilitation Medicine

Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Iterative Learning Control: An Overview -- Technology Transfer to Stroke Rehabilitation -- ILC based Upper-Limb Rehabilitation— Planar Tasks -- Iterative Learning Control of the Unconstrained Upper Limb -- Goal-oriented Stroke Rehabilitation.

Sommario/riassunto

Iterative learning control (ILC) has its origins in the control of processes that perform a task repetitively with a view to improving accuracy from trial to trial by using information from previous executions of the task. This brief shows how a classic application of this technique – trajectory following in robots – can be extended to neurological rehabilitation after stroke. Regaining upper limb movement is an important step in a return to independence after stroke, but the prognosis for such recovery has remained poor. Rehabilitation robotics provides the opportunity for repetitive task-oriented movement practice reflecting



the importance of such intense practice demonstrated by conventional therapeutic research and motor learning theory. Until now this technique has not allowed feedback from one practice repetition to influence the next, also implicated as an important factor in therapy. The authors demonstrate how ILC can be used to adjust external functional electrical stimulation of patients’ muscles while they are repeatedly performing a task in response to the known effects of stimulation in previous repetitions. As the motor nerves and muscles of the arm reaquire the ability to convert an intention to move into a motion of accurate trajectory, force and rapidity, initially intense external stimulation can now be scaled back progressively until the fullest possible independence of movement is achieved.