Special Issue on Rehabilitation Robots, Devices, and Methodologies

Abstract

Most of the developed countries are encountering an aging society, which brings an increasing morbidity of neuromuscular disabilities and diseases, such as stroke, Alzheimer, etc. Rehabilitation has proven to be an effective therapy, and this calls for the development of assisting devices and methodologies for limb/body and cognitive rehabilitation. In the recent decades, the kinematic/dynamic analysis and control of rehabilitation robots and design of rehabilitation methodologies have engaged researchers in mechanical and biomedical engineering to help propose novel engineering solutions to such problems.