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Agnieszka Szpala, Slawomir Winiarski, Malgorzata Kolodziej, Bogdan Pietraszewski, Ryszard Jasinski, Tadeusz Niebudek, Andrzej Lejczak, Karolina Lorek, Jacek Balchanowski, Slawomir Wudarczyk and Marek Wozniewski
This investigation aimed to scrutinise the kinematic and spatio-temporal characteristics of free and Nordic walking (NW) in older adults, utilising both traditional and biosensor-integrated mechatronic poles. The hypothesis was that including biosensors ...
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Daniel Soto-Guerrero, José Gabriel Ramírez-Torres and Eduardo Rodriguez-Tello
Insects are good examples of ground locomotion because they can adapt their gait pattern to propel them in any direction, over uneven terrain, in a stable manner. Nevertheless, replicating such locomotion skills to a legged robot is not a straightforward...
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Nazia Ejaz, Saad Jawaid Khan, Fahad Azim, Mehwish Faiz, Emil Teu?an, Alin Ple?a, Alexandru Ianosi-Andreeva-Dimitrova and Sergiu-Dan Stan
Fragility fractures, caused by low-energy trauma, are a significant global health concern, with 158 million people aged 50 and over at risk. Hip fractures, a common issue in elderly patients, are often linked to underlying conditions such as osteoporosis...
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Claudia Barattini, Luca Dimauro, Angelo Domenico Vella and Alessandro Vigliani
In recent years, significant improvements in the design of leg blade prosthetics have been carried out. After several advances in material and topological optimisations, sport-purpose feet prosthetics have reached high-level performances, allowing athlet...
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Ji-Yong Jung and Jung-Ja Kim
A rollator, one of the most widely used among walking assistance devices, can assist the elderly with stable walking in their daily lives. In this study, we investigated how the structural characteristics of two types of rollators affect the upper and lo...
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Xin?an Gao, Xiaorong Guan, Yanlong Yang and Jingmin Zhang
The tracked-wheeled mobile robot has gained significant attention in military, agricultural, construction, and other fields due to its exceptional mobility and off-road capabilities. Therefore, it is an ideal choice for reconnaissance and exploration tas...
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João Monge, Gonçalo Ribeiro, António Raimundo, Octavian Postolache and Joel Santos
Health monitoring is crucial in hospitals and rehabilitation centers. Challenges can affect the reliability and accuracy of health data. Human error, patient compliance concerns, time, money, technology, and environmental factors might cause these issues...
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Zhifeng Qi and Xiuting Sun
In complex and extreme environments, such as pipelines and polluted waters, gait programming has great significance for multibody segment locomotion robots. The earthworm-like locomotion robot is a representative multibody bionic robot, which has the cha...
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Joo Young Kim and Young Ook Kim
Numerous pedestrians interact with the subway station space by finding entrances into this closed area to use the subway system; further, they may use transfer transportation facilities or the complex functions nearby, such as commercial. Many studies ex...
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Hye Kyeong Lee, Sung Min Kim and Hong Seok Lim
Loss of lumbar lordosis in flatback patients leads to changes in the walking mechanism like knee flexion. Such variations in flatback patients are predicted to alter the characteristics of total knee replacement (TKR) contact, so their TKR will show diff...
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