New Trends in Medical and Service Robotics

Chapter 1: Trajectory Planning and Fuzzy Control of a Hand Exoskeleton for Assisted Rehabilitation.- Chapter 2: Design of a novel robot for upper limb rehabilitation.- Chapter 3: Comfort Perception Analysis of Human Models Interfacing with Novel Biped-Wheeled-Exoskeletons.- Chapter 4: Ankle rehabilitation of stroke survivors using Kuka LBR iiwa.- Chapter 5: A compliant parallel manipulator for rehabilitation of the trunk after stroke.- Chapter 6: Design and motion analysis of an exoskeleton robot for assisting human locomotion.- Chapter 7: Alternative Methods for Direct Kinematic Analysis of a Parallel Robot for Ankle Rehabilitation.- Chapter 8: First clinical evaluation of a spherical robotic system for shoulder rehabilitation.- Chapter 9: Experimental characterization of a cable-driven device for elbow motion assistance.