Frontiers Research in Biomechanics and Rehabilitation Engineering
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomaterials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 June 2022) | Viewed by 1135
Special Issue Editors
Interests: rehabilitation engineering; exoskeletons; active orthoses; biomechanics
Interests: dynamic simulation; human motion prediction; contact models; rehabilitation engineering; biomechanics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Biomechanics and rehabilitation engineering are two interwined fields aimed at improving the quality of life of disabled people and the elderly. The design of novel rehabilitation devices can benefit from the use of recent but also widespread manufacturing techniques, such as 3D printing, the use of biologically inspired actuators such as Bowden cables, pneumatic muscles or textiles, and the use of ‘ad hoc’ simulation models to characterize the rehabilitation systems and their influence in the rehabilitation process.
This Special Issue covers recent advances in rehabilitation engineering, focused on the design and characterization of biomechanically inspired rehabilitation devices such as prostheses, orthoses, exoskeletons or implants, among others. Theoretical and experimental results are invited to this Special Issue. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Novel designs of rehabilitation devices for the upper and lower limbs;
- Biologically inspired actuators and control schemes;
- Use of rapid manufacturing techniques in the design of rehabilitation devices
- Assessment of the aforementioned systems for the population of interest;
- Model simulation and validation;
- Characterization of the rehabilitation system constructive materials.
Dr. Rosa Pàmies-Vilà
Prof. Dr. David Rodríguez Salgado
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- rehabilitation devices
- design of assistive devices
- wearable rehabilitation systems
- human augmentation
- assessment of the rehabilitation process
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