Table of Contents

• A parallel Remote Center of Motion mechanism for needle-based medical interventionsMostafa Hadavand, Michael D. Naish, Rajni V. Patel. 1-6 [doi]
• Three-dimensional needle steering towards a localized target in a prostate phantomMomen Abayazid, Navid Shahriari, Sarthak Misra. 7-12 [doi]
• Visual servoing of a robotic endoscope holder based on surgical instrument trackingAnthony Agustinos, Rémi Wolf, Jean-Alexandre Long, Philippe Cinquin, Sandrine Voros. 13-18 [doi]
• A body-mounted surgical assistance robot for minimally invasive spinal puncture surgeryAkira Bekku, Joonhwan Kim, Yoshikazu Nakajima, Kazuo Yonenobu. 19-23 [doi]
• Integration of heterogeneous robotic systems in a surgical scenarioA. Garcia-Martinez, Luis Daniel Lledó, Francisco J. Badesa, Nicolás Garcia, José M. Sabater Navarro. 24-27 [doi]
• Low-cost force-sensing arthroscopic tool using threaded fiber Bragg grating sensorsDaniel S. Yurkewich, Abelardo Escoto, Ana Luisa Trejos, Marie-Eve LeBel, Rajni V. Patel, Michael D. Naish. 28-33 [doi]
• Design and fabrication of cubic eggshell containing chick embryo for a novel biomedical platformWenjing Huang, Fumihito Arai, Tomohiro Kawahara. 34-39 [doi]
• A prototype body-mounted MRI-compatible robot for needle guidance in shoulder arthrographyReza Monfaredi, Reza Seifabadi, Iulian Iordachita, Raymond W. Sze, Nabile M. Safdar, Karun Sharma, Stanley Fricke, Axel Krieger, Kevin Cleary. 40-45 [doi]
• Relationship between workspace reduction due to collisions and distance between endoscope and target organ in pediatric endoscopic surgeryM. Fujii, S. Takazawa, Kanako Harada, Naohiko Sugita, Tetsuya Ishimaru, Tadashi Iwanaka, Mamoru Mitsuishi. 46-51 [doi]
• Interdisciplinary concept of design, actuation, control and vision computing of a laser-sintered single-port robotMattias F. Traeger, Daniel B. Roppenecker, Brian Jensen, Salman Can, Alois Knoll, Tim C. Lueth. 52-57 [doi]
• Visuo-haptic feedback for 1-D guidance in laparoscopic surgeryThomas Howard, Jérôme Szewczyk. 58-65 [doi]
• Command interface and driving strategy for a voice activated en-doscope positioning armEric T. P. Santos, Idagene A. Cestari. 66-69 [doi]
• A neural network approach for flexible needle tracking in ultrasound images using Kalman filterAndre A. Geraldes, Thiago S. Rocha. 70-75 [doi]
• A method to assess upper-body postural variability in laparoscopic surgeryKostas Gianikellis, Andrew Skiadopoulos, Carlos Espino Palma, Francisco Miguel Sánchez-Margallo, Jose B. Pagador Carrasco, Juan Alberto Sánchez-Margallo. 76-81 [doi]
• Speed control of the Implantable Centrifugal Blood Pump to avoid aortic valve stenosis: Simulation and implementationTarcísio Leão, Jeison Fonseca, Eduardo Bock, Rosa Sa, Bruno Utiyama, Evandro Drigo, Juliana Leme, Aron Andrade. 82-86 [doi]
• Diaphragmatic electromyography analysis during two different mechanical ventilation techniques in patients with neuromuscular diseasesStefano Mazzoleni, G. Vagheggini, L. Buono, E. Panait Vlad, N. Ambrosino, Paolo Dario. 87-90 [doi]
• Hand prosthesis prototype controlled by EMG and vibrotactile force feedbackT. Sono, L. Menegaldo, M. Pinotti. 91-95 [doi]
• Kinematic synthesis of the passive human knee joint by differential evolution and quaternions algebra: A preliminary studyDaniel P. Saldias, Luiz A. Radavelli, Carlos R. M. Roesler, Daniel Martins. 96-101 [doi]
• Estimation of 3D biomechanics parameters of patellar movement using dynamic CT imagesMarina A. Rebelo, Ramon Alfredo Moreno, Riccardo Gomes Gobbi, Gilberto Luis Camanho, Luiz Francisco Rodrigues de Ávila, Marco Kawamura Demange, Jose Ricardo Pecora, Marco Antonio Gutierrez. 102-107 [doi]
• An above-knee prosthesis with magnetorheological variable-dampingClaudia Ochoa-Diaz, Thiago S. Rocha, Lucas de Levy Oliveira, Miguel G. Paredes, Rafael Lima, Antônio Padilha Lanari Bo, Geovany A. Borges. 108-113 [doi]
• Tactile feedback in upper limb prosthetic devices using flexible textile force sensorsLuke Osborn, Wang Wei Lee, Rahul R. Kaliki, Nitish V. Thakor. 114-119 [doi]
• An active tibial component for postoperative fine-tuning adjustment of knee ligament imbalanceAndrea Collo, Philippe Poignet, Chafiaâ Hamitouche, Shaban Almouahed, Eric Stindel. 126-131 [doi]
• Ankle kinematics describing gait agility: Considerations in the design of an agile ankle-foot prosthesisEvandro M. Ficanha, Ruiyu Kang, Mohammad Rastgaar. 132-137 [doi]
• Surgeon's third hand: An assistive robot endoscopic system with intuitive maneuverability for laparoscopic surgeryRen C. Luo, Jui Wang, Chih-Kang Chang, Yi-Wen Perng. 138-143 [doi]
• Experimental Validation of a Robotic Comanipulation and Telemanipulation System for Retinal SurgeryA. Gijbels, Emmanuel B. Vander Poorten, B. Gorissen, Alain Devreker, P. Stalmans, Dominiek Reynaerts. 144-150 [doi]
• Magnetic-based motion control of a helical robot using two synchronized rotating dipole fieldsMahmoud E. Alshafeei, Abdelrahman Hosney, Anke Klingner, Sarthak Misra, Islam S. M. Khalil. 151-156 [doi]
• A sterilizable force-sensing instrument for laparoscopic surgeryAna Luisa Trejos, Abelardo Escoto, Dustin Hughes, Michael D. Naish, Rajni V. Patel. 157-162 [doi]
• Kinematic instability in concentric-tube robots: Modeling and analysisRan Xu, Seyed Farokh Atashzar, Rajni V. Patel. 163-168 [doi]
• Magnetic control of self-propelled microjets under ultrasound image guidanceAlonso-Sánchez, Veronika Magdanz, Oliver G. Schmidt, Sarthak Misra. 169-174 [doi]
• H-Man: Characterization of a novel, portable, inexpensive planar robot for arm rehabilitationPaolo Tommasino, Lorenzo Masia, Welihena G. K. C. Gamage, Muhammad Azhar, Charmayne M. L. Hughes, Domenico Campolo. 175-180 [doi]
• Controlling articulated robots in task-space with spiking silicon neuronsSamir Menon, Sam Fok, Alexander Neckar, Oussama Khatib, Kwabena Boahen. 181-186 [doi]
• Design and control of an experimental active elbow support for adult Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy patientsJoan Lobo-Prat, Peter N. Kooren, Arvid Q. L. Keemink, Micha I. Paalman, Edsko E. G. Hekman, Peter H. Veltink, Arno H. A. Stienen, Bart F. J. M. Koopman. 187-192 [doi]
• SoleSound: Towards a novel portable system for audio-tactile underfoot feedbackDamiano Zanotto, Luca Turchet, Emily Marie Boggs, Sunil K. Agrawal. 193-198 [doi]
• A wearable low-cost device based upon Force-Sensing Resistors to detect single-finger forcesClaudio Castellini, Vikram Ravindra. 199-203 [doi]
• Stable running by leg force-modulated hip stiffnessMaziar Ahmad Sharbafi, André Seyfarth. 204-210 [doi]
• Dynamic simulation of hip strategy of diabetic neuropathic individuals during gaitAline A. Gomes, Arturo Forner Cordero, Marko Ackermann, Isabel C. N. Sacco. 211-215 [doi]
• Do humans walk like robots when crossing an obstacle without visual information?Luis Filipe Rossi, Sergio T. Rodrigues, Arturo Forner Cordero. 216-220 [doi]
• Heel-contact toe-off walking model based on the Linear Inverted PendulumYukitoshi Minami Shiguematsu, Przemyslaw Kryczka, Kenji Hashimoto, Hun-ok Lim, Atsuo Takanishi. 221-226 [doi]
• Human-walker interaction on slopes based on LRF and IMU sensorsLuca Tausel, Carlos A. Cifuentes, Camilo Rodriguez, Anselmo Frizera, Teodiano Freire Bastos Filho. 227-232 [doi]
• An obstetric forceps contouring the head surface to improve gripping capability in delivery assistanceMasaki Chino, Yoshikazu Nakajima, Akira Bekku, Hiroyuki Tsuda, Tomomi Kotani, Fumitaka Kikkawa. 233-237 [doi]
• Customized load cell for three-dimensional force-moment measurements in orthodonticsM. Mencattelli, Elisa Donati, M. Cultrone, Cesare Stefanini. 238-243 [doi]
• Motorized force-sensing micro-forceps with tremor cancelling and controlled micro-vibrations for easier membrane peelingBerk Gonenc, Peter Gehlbach, James Handa, Russell H. Taylor, Iulian Iordachita. 244-251 [doi]
• Development of a miniaturized 3-DOF force sensing instrument for robotically assisted retinal microsurgery and preliminary resultsXingchi He, Peter Gehlbach, James Handa, Russell H. Taylor, Iulian Iordachita. 252-258 [doi]
• Force-controlled ultrasound robot for consistent tissue pre-loading: Implications for acoustic radiation force elasticity imagingMuyinatu A. Lediju Bell, H. Tutkun Sen, Iulian Iordachita, Peter Kazanzides. 259-264 [doi]
• Upper limb robot-assisted therapy in subacute and chronic stroke patients: Preliminary results on initial exposure based on kinematic measuresStefano Mazzoleni, L. Buono, Dario Dario, Federico Posteraro. 265-269 [doi]
• Tacit representation of muscle activities during coordination training: Muscle synergy analysis to visualize motor enhancement in virtual trajectory of multi-joint arm movementKeitaro Koba, Kenta Murakami, Takanori Oku, Kanna Uno, Pipatthana Phatiwuttipat, Yuto Yamashita, Mitsunori Uemura, Hiroaki Hirai, Fumio Miyazaki. 270-275 [doi]
• Classifying emotions in rehabilitation robotics based on facial skin temperatureViviane C. R. Appel, Valdinei Luís Belini, Denny H. Jong, Daniel Varela Magalhães, Glauco Augusto de Paula Caurin. 276-280 [doi]
• Experimental assessment of gait with rhythmic auditory perturbationsArturo Forner Cordero, Cinthia Itiki, Rafael Sanchez Souza, Joao Carlos M. C. Lourenco, Hermano Igo Krebs. 282-286 [doi]
• Exploiting the link between action and perception: Minimally assisted robotic training of the kinesthetic senseDalia De Santis, Jacopo Zenzeri, Lorenzo Masia, Valentina Squeri, Pietro Morasso. 287-292 [doi]
• Design of a new MR-compatible haptic interface with six actuated degrees of freedomMehmet Alper Ergin, Markus Kuhne, Axel Thielscher, Angelika Peer. 293-300 [doi]
• A new duty-cycling approach for 3D needle steering allowing the use of the classical visual servoing framework for targeting tasksAlexandre Krupa. 301-307 [doi]
• Robotics-assisted catheter manipulation for improving cardiac ablation efficiencyMahta Khoshnam, Rajni V. Patel. 308-313 [doi]
• A preliminary evaluation of a flexible needle steering algorithm using magnetic resonance images as feedbackPedro Moreira, Gert van de Steeg, Ferdi van der Heijden, Jurgen J. Fütterer, Sarthak Misra. 314-319 [doi]
• Dipole Field Navigation for targeted drug deliveryMaxime Latulippe, Sylvain Martel. 320-325 [doi]
• Statics modeling of an underactuated wire-driven flexible robotic armZheng Li, Ruxu Du, Haoyong Yu, Hongliang Ren 0001. 326-331 [doi]
• Evaluation of virtual fixtures for robot-assisted cochlear implant insertionPaul Wilkening, Wade Chien, Berk Gonenc, John K. Niparko, Jin U. Kang, Iulian Iordachita, Russell H. Taylor. 332-338 [doi]
• A programmable remote center-of-motion controller for minimally invasive surgery using the dual quaternion frameworkMurilo M. Marinho, Mariana C. Bernardes, Antônio Padilha Lanari Bo. 339-344 [doi]
• Hybrid stiff/compliant workspace control for robotized minimally invasive surgeryPål Johan From, Jang Ho Cho, Anders Robertsson, Tomohiro Nakano, M. Mahdi Ghazaei Ardakani, Rolf Johansson. 345-351 [doi]
• Design and preliminary test results of a novel microsurgical telemanipulator systemR. Cau, F. B. F. Schoenmakers, Maarten Steinbuch, T. J. M. van Mulken, R. R. W. J. van der Hulst. 352-356 [doi]
• Mechatronic implementation in minimally invasive surgical instrumentsGeorge Dikaiakos, Antonia Tzemanaki, Anthony G. Pipe, Sanja Dogramadzi. 357-362 [doi]
• Thermal supervision during robotic laser microsurgeryDiego Pardo, Loris Fichera, Darwin G. Caldwell, Leonardo S. Mattos. 363-368 [doi]
• μAngelo: A novel minimally invasive surgical system based on an anthropomorphic designAntonia Tzemanaki, Thomas M. W. Burton, David Gillatt, Chris Melhuish, Raj Persad, Anthony G. Pipe, Sanja Dogramadzi. 369-374 [doi]
• Soundscape and haptic cues in an interactive painting: A study with autistic childrenHoang H. Le, Rui C. V. Loureiro, Florian Dussopt, Nicholas Phillips, Aleksandar Zivanovic, Martin J. Loomes. 375-380 [doi]
• Hand rehabilitation device system (HRDS) for therapeutic applicationsMohd Nor Azmi Ab Patar, Takashi Komeda, Takashi Mori, Takaya Seki, Yukio Saito, Jamaluddin Mahmud, Cheng Yee Low. 381-386 [doi]
• Legs tracking for walker-rehabilitation purposesMaria M. Martins, Anselmo Frizera, Ramón Ceres, Cristina P. Santos. 387-392 [doi]
• Ankle robotics training with concurrent physiological monitoring in multiple sclerosis: A case reportRonald N. Goodman, Jeremy C. Rietschel, Anindo Roy, Shailesh Balasubramanian, Larry W. Forrester, Christopher T. Bever, Hermano I. Krebs. 393-397 [doi]
• Robot-assisted rehabilitation treatment of a 65-year old woman with alien hand syndromeFrancisco J. Badesa, Ricardo Morales, Nicolás García Aracil, Arantxa Alfaro, Ángela Bernabeu, Eduardo Fernández 0001, José María Sabater. 398-402 [doi]
• The effect of feedback presentation on motor imagery performance during BCI-teleoperation of a humanlike robotMaryam Alimardani, Shuichi Nishio, Hiroshi Ishiguro. 403-408 [doi]
• EEG-based classification of upper-limb ADL using SNN for active robotic rehabilitationJin Hu, Zeng-Guang Hou, Yixiong Chen, Nikola Kasabov, Nathan Matthew Scott. 409-414 [doi]
• Therapeutic potential of haptic TheraDrive: An affordable robot/computer system for motivating stroke rehabilitationAndrew Theriault, Mark L. Nagurka, Michelle J. Johnson. 415-420 [doi]
• Implementation of 3D visualization aplications based on physical-haptics principles to perform rehabilitation tasksLuis Daniel Lledó, Santiago Ezquerro, Francisco J. Badesa, R. Morales, Nicolás García Aracil, José María Sabater. 421-425 [doi]
• The influence of human-robot interaction order during fast lifting tasks for different levels of weight compensationJack F. Schorsch, Arvid Q. L. Keemink, Arno H. A. Stienen, Frans C. T. van der Helm, David A. Abbink. 426-431 [doi]
• Towards a brain computer interface driven exoskeleton for upper extremity rehabilitationZhen-Gang Xiao, Ahmed M. Elnady, Jacob Webb, Carlo Menon. 432-437 [doi]
• Usability feedback of patients and therapists on a conceptual mobile service robot for inpatient and home-based stroke rehabilitationRachel Wilk, Michelle J. Johnson. 438-443 [doi]
• An automated mechanism to characterize wheelchair user performanceBojan Andonovski, Jaime Valls Miró, James Poon, Ross Black. 444-449 [doi]
• Conceptual project of a servo-controlled power-assisted wheelchairFausto O. Medola, Benedito M. Purquerio, Valéria Meirelles Carril Elui, Carlos Alberto Fortulan. 450-454 [doi]
• Power wheelchair open platformMarcelo A. Jose, Alexandre Antonio Gonçalves Martinazzo, Leandro Coletto Biazon, Irene Karaguilla Ficheman, Roseli D. Lopes, Marcelo Knörich Zuffo. 455-460 [doi]
• Development and control of a one-wheel telescopic active caneRagou Ady, Wael Bachta, Philippe Bidaud. 461-466 [doi]
• Sensor-guided jogging for visually impairedChristina Ramer, Christian Ziegler, Sebastian Reitelshöfer, Jörg Franke. 467-472 [doi]
• Analysis of torque and power supported by the Hip during a change of sitting position to standing and walking cycleLuis Alfredo Calle Arevalo, Patricio Javier Guaraca Medina, Patricio Fernando Urgiles Ortiz. 473-478 [doi]
• Design of a modular add-on compliant actuator to convert an orthosis into an assistive exoskeletonBranko Brackx, Joost Geeroms, Jonas Vantilt, Victor Grosu, Karen Junius, Heidi Cuypers, Bram Vanderborght, Dirk Lefeber. 485-490 [doi]
• A wearable mechatronic brace for arm rehabilitationTyler Desplenter, A. Kyrylova, T. K. Stanbury, Abelardo Escoto, Shrikant Chinchalkar, Ana Luisa Trejos. 491-496 [doi]
• Ergonomics and kinematic compatibility of PKankle, a fully-parallel spherical robot for ankle-foot rehabilitationMatteo Malosio, Marco Caimmi, Marco Ometto, Lorenzo Molinari Tosatti. 497-503 [doi]
• WAKE-up: A wearable ankle knee exoskeletonStefano Rossi, Fabrizio Patane, Fausto Del Sette, Paolo Cappa. 504-507 [doi]
• Modular design and modeling of an upper limb exoskeletonJavier Garrido, Wen Yu 0001, Alberto Soria. 508-513 [doi]
• Relocating actuators towards a base frame does not improve weight and inertia characteristics in our upper-extremity exoskeletonAntoon Philippi, Serdar Ates, Arno H. A. Stienen. 514-519 [doi]
• Learning a Predictive Model of Human Gait for the Control of a Lower-limb ExoskeletonErwin Aertbeliën, Joris De Schutter. 520-525 [doi]
• Influence of single centers in a multicenter trial on robot-assisted therapy?Verena Klamroth-Marganska, Robert Riener. 526-529 [doi]
• Design of the pediatric arm rehabilitation robot ChARMinUrs Keller, Robert Riener. 530-535 [doi]
• Expression-rich communication through a squeezable devicePatrizia Marti, Michele Tittarelli, Matteo Sirizzotti, Jelle Stienstra. 536-541 [doi]
• Modeling reaction time in the ankleKonstantinos P. Michmizos, Hermano Igo Krebs. 542-547 [doi]
• A virtual piano-playing environment for rehabilitation based upon ultrasound imagingClaudio Castellini, Katharina Hertkorn, Mikel Sagardia, David Sierra González, Markus Nowak. 548-554 [doi]
• On-body inertial and magnetic sensing for assessment of hand and finger kinematicsHenk G. Kortier, H. Martin Schepers, Peter H. Veltink. 555-560 [doi]
• Using Kinect for upper-limb functional evaluation in home rehabilitation: A comparison with a 3D stereoscopic passive marker systemAlessandro Scano, Marco Caimmi, Matteo Malosio, Lorenzo Molinari Tosatti. 561-566 [doi]
• Knowledge discovery, rehabilitation robotics, and serious games: Examining training dataCaio Benatti Moretti, Ricardo C. Joaquim, Glauco A. P. Caurin, Hermano I. Krebs, Jose Martins. 567-572 [doi]
• An alternative approach for developing socially assistive robotsChandimal Jayawardena, Abdolhossein Sarrafzadeh. 573-578 [doi]
• High-accuracy recognition of muscle activation patterns using a hierarchical classifierLuis A. Rivera, Nicholas R. Smith, Guilherme N. DeSouza. 579-584 [doi]
• Use of surface electromyography for human amplification using an exoskeleton driven by artificial pneumatic musclesJoao Luiz A. S. Ramos, Marco A. Meggiolaro. 585-590 [doi]
• Control an exoskeleton for forearm rotation using FMGZhen-Gang Xiao, Ahmed M. Elnady, Carlo Menon. 591-596 [doi]
• Position and velocity cursor mappings contribute to distinct muscle forces in simulated isometric and movement reachingMargaret P. Chapman, Michele F. Rotella, Allison M. Okamura. 597-603 [doi]
• sEMG-based estimation of human stiffness: Towards impedance-controlled rehabilitationClaudio Castellini, Albert Arquer, Jordi Artigas. 604-609 [doi]
• System identification of a motor unit pool using a realistic neuromusculoskeletal modelRenato Naville Watanabe, André Fabio Kohn. 610-615 [doi]
• Experimental assessment of a coincident timing motor task of the arm under a passive mechanical perturbationVirginia Helena Quadrado, Carlos Noriega, Arturo Forner Cordero. 616-620 [doi]
• A novel muscle synergy extraction method to explain the equilibrium-point trajectory and endpoint stiffness during human upper-limb movements on a horizontal planeKanna Uno, Takanori Oku, Pipatthana Phatiwuttipat, Keitaro Koba, Yuto Yamashita, Kenta Murakami, Mitsunori Uemura, Hiroaki Hirai, Fumio Miyazaki. 621-626 [doi]
• Dynamical analysis of human standing model with cyclic motionTetsuro Funato, Shinya Aoi, Nozomi Tomita, Kazuo Tsuchiya. 627-631 [doi]
• Random error propagation analysis in center of pressure signalAndrew Skiadopoulos, Kostas Gianikellis. 632-637 [doi]
• MLPNN adaptive controller based on a reference model to drive an actuated lower limb orthosisBoubaker Daachi, Tarek Madani, M. E. Daâchi, Karim Djouani. 638-643 [doi]
• Robust torque control based on H∞ criterion of an active knee orthosisWilian M. dos Santos, Adriano A. G. Siqueira. 644-649 [doi]
• A neurally inspired robotic control algorithm for gait rehabilitation in hemiplegic stroke patientsAbhishek Mishra, Rohan Ghosh, Martina Coscia, Sunil L. Kukreja, Carmelo Chisari, Silvestro Micera, Haoyong Yu, Nitish V. Thakor. 650-655 [doi]
• Facilitating push-off propulsion: A biomechanical model of ankle robotics assistance for plantarflexion gait training in strokeAnindo Roy, Hermano Igo Krebs, Kamran Iqbal, Nathan R. Macko, Richard F. Macko, Larry W. Forrester. 656-663 [doi]
• Adaptive impedance control for robot-aided rehabilitation of ankle movementsJuan C. Perez-Ibarra, Wilian M. dos Santos, Hermano I. Krebs, Adriano A. G. Siqueira. 664-669 [doi]
• Human sit-to-stand transfer modeling for optimal control of assistive robotsMilad Geravand, Peter Zeno Korondi, Angelika Peer. 670-676 [doi]
• MIT-Skywalker: A novel environment for neural gait rehabilitationTyler Susko, Hermano Igo Krebs. 677-682 [doi]
• FEXO Knee: A rehabilitation device for knee joint combining functional electrical stimulation with a compliant exoskeletonYong Ren, Dingguo Zhang. 683-688 [doi]
• Second Spine: A device to relieve stresses on the upper body during loaded walkingJoon Hyuk Park, Damiano Zanotto, Vineet Vashista, Xin Jin, Paul Stegall, Sunil K. Agrawal. 689-694 [doi]
• A lower limb exoskeleton with hybrid actuationHipolito Aguilar-Sierra, Ricardo Lopez, Wen Yu, Sergio Salazar, Rogelio Lozano. 695-700 [doi]
• Development of a novel gait rehabilitation system by integrating functional electrical stimulation and a split belt treadmill for hemiparetic patients after strokeJing Ye, Yasutaka Nakashima, Inko Elgezua, Bo Zhang, Yo Kobayashi, Masakatsu G. Fujie. 701-706 [doi]
• Development of a non-exoskeletal structure for a robotic suitHirohito Tanaka, Minoru Hashimoto. 707-712 [doi]
• Control scheme with tissue interaction detection for a single port access surgery robotic platformCarlos Jesús Pérez-del-Pulgar, Victor F. Muñoz. 713-718 [doi]
• Detection of surface points with an 850nm laser and an NDI stereo cameraFranziska Sophie Goerlach, Tobias Lüddemann, Jonas H. Pfeiffer, Tim C. Lueth. 719-725 [doi]
• Development and experimental validation of a master interface with vibrotactile feedback for robotic telesurgeryElena F. Gambaro, Loredana Zollo, Eugenio Guglielmelli. 726-731 [doi]
• Virtual fixture control of a hybrid parallel-serial robot for assisting ophthalmic surgery: An experimental studyMohammad Ali Nasseri, P. Gschirr, Martin Eder, Suraj Nair, K. Kobuch, Mathias Maier, Daniel Zapp, Chris P. Lohmann, Alois Knoll. 732-738 [doi]
• Towards a cognitive camera robotic assistantIrene Rivas-Blanco, Belen Estebanez, Maria Cuevas-Rodriguez, Enrique Bauzano, Victor F. Muñoz. 739-744 [doi]
• Cascade robot force control architecture for autonomous beating heart motion compensation with model predictive control and active observerMichel Dominici, Rui Cortesão. 745-751 [doi]
• ServoSEA concept: Cheap, miniature series-elastic actuators for orthotic, prosthetic and robotic handsSerdar Ates, Victor I. Sluiter, Piet Lammertse, Arno H. A. Stienen. 752-757 [doi]
• Electromyographic signals processing for robotic assistance tools in the rural populationD. Andres A. Ramirez, Mario Jimenez, Miguel F. Arevalo. 758-762 [doi]
• A proposal to monitor muscle contraction through the change of electrical impedance inside a muscleOlavo L. Silva, Thais H. S. Sousa, Isadora O. Hoffman, Erick Dario León Bueno de Camargo, Fernando Silva de Moura, Alessandro R. C. Martins, Caio Biasi, Denise T. Fantoni, Raul Gonzalez Lima. 763-767 [doi]
• Biomechatronic system engineeringBernhard Budaker. 768-773 [doi]
• Somnomat: A novel device to investigate the influence of vestibular stimulation on sleepFrancesco Crivelli, Lorenz Heinicke, Ximena Omlin, Robert Riener. 774-779 [doi]
• Adjustable sheet for intelligent seating systemTakehito Kikuchi, Kenichi Anzai. 780-785 [doi]
• Design of a glove-based optical fiber sensor for applications in biomechatronicsEric Fujiwara, Carlos Y. Onaga, Murilo Ferreira Marques Santos, Egont A. Schenkel, Carlos Kenichi Suzuki. 786-790 [doi]
• Biomechatronic neurorehabilitation complex - Design, models and controlIgor A. Orlov, Anton P. Aliseychik, Alexander K. Platonov, Alexander A. Ptakhin, Vladimir E. Pavlovsky. 791-796 [doi]
• Potentiometric method for resistance's measurement of pyrazinamide in mycobacterium tuberculosisRoberto Furukawa, Daniel Rueda, Mirko Zimic. 797-802 [doi]
• Dielectric elastomer actuators - On the way to new actuation-systems driving future assistive, compliant and safe robots and prosthesesSebastian Reitelshöfer, Maximilian Landgraf, In Seong Yoo, J. Horber, Christina Ramer, Christian Ziegler, Jörg Franke. 803-808 [doi]
• Syncronicity relationship between the mechanomyography peak energy frequency and the maximum electrically evoked contraction in paraplegicsEddy Krueger, Eduardo M. Scheeren, Guilherme Nunes Nogueira-Neto, Percy Nohama. 809-812 [doi]
• Distributed cerebellar plasticity implements multiple-scale memory components of Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex in real-robotsClaudia Casellato, Alberto Antonietti, Jesús Alberto Garrido, Alessandra Pedrocchi, Egidio D'Angelo. 813-818 [doi]
• Development of a controllerfor a 3-DOF robotic platform for user interaction in rehabilitation therapiesGuilherme Martinho Dobrianskyj, Andre Garnier Coutinho, Tarcisio Antonio Hess Coelho. 819-824 [doi]
• Experimental verification of cusp catastrophe in the gait transition of a quadruped robot driven by nonlinear oscillators with phase resettingShinya Aoi, Takahiro Tanaka, Soichiro Fujiki, Kei Senda, Kazuo Tsuchiya. 825-830 [doi]
• Electromagnetic actuation system for locomotive intravascular therapeutic microrobotHyunchul Choi, Gwangjun Go, Cheong Lee, Seong-Young Ko, Semi Jeong, Kiduk Kwon, Jong-Oh Park, Sukho Park. 831-834 [doi]
• Integration of virtual pheromones for mapping/exploration of environments by using multiple robotsJanderson R. Oliveira, Rodrigo Calvo, Roseli A. F. Romero. 835-840 [doi]
• Biomimetic swimming tadpole microrobot using 3-pairs Helmholtz coilsHyunchul Choi, Semi Jeong, Cheong Lee, Gwangjun Go, Kiduk Kwon, Seong-Young Ko, Jong-Oh Park, Sukho Park. 841-844 [doi]
• Muscle group activation estimation in human leg during gait using recursive least squares embodying Hill's muscle modelYunha Kim, Yoichi Hori. 845-850 [doi]
• Development of bacteria-actuated microrobots using the surface modification of microstructuresSung-Jun Park, Sunghoon Cho, Young-Jin Choi, Han-Earl Jung, Shaohui Zheng, Seong-Young Ko, Jong-Oh Park, Sukho Park. 851-855 [doi]
• Development and implementation of analysis program for Peritrichous bacteria-based nanorobot (bacteriobot)Sunghoon Cho, Sung-Jun Park, Young-Jin Choi, Han-Earl Jung, Shaohui Zheng, Seong-Young Ko, Jong-Oh Park, Sukho Park. 856-860 [doi]
• Analysis of postural control in elderly on horizontal and inclined surfaces using classical descriptors and DFARenata C. Barbosa, Evlyn J. Fernandes, Thailyne Bizinotto, Ivan S. Avelar, Marcus F. Vieira. 861-865 [doi]
• Humanoid fall avoidance from random disturbances predicted via a decision volumeNoel El Khazen, Daniel C. Asmar, Najib Metni, Elie A. Shammas. 866-871 [doi]
• Anticipatory phase of gait initiation on horizontal, upward and downward inclined surfacesJoao B. de S. Neto, Thales B. Takao, Millys F. A. Carvalhaes, Thailyne Bizinotto, Paula H. Lobo da Costa, Marcus F. Vieira. 872-874 [doi]
• Muscle-tendon complex control by "Tension controlled Muscle" and "Non-linear Spring Ligament" for real world musculoskeletal body simulator KenshiroToyotaka Kozuki, Takuma Shirai, Yuki Asano, Yotaro Motegi, Yohei Kakiuchi, Kei Okada, Masayuki Inaba. 875-880 [doi]
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• Toward motor-unit-recruitment actuators for soft roboticsJoshua Schultz, Glenn Mathijssen, Bram Vanderborght, Antonio Bicchi. 887-892 [doi]
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• Gait event detection through neuromorphic spike sequence learningWang Wei Lee, Haoyong Yu, Nitish V. Thakor. 899-904 [doi]
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• Body shape and orientation control for locomotion of biologically-inspired snake robotsEhsan Rezapour, Kristin Ytterstad Pettersen, Jan Tommy Gravdahl, Pål Liljebäck. 993-1000 [doi]
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• A novel approach for generalising walking gaits across embodiments and behavioursHsiu-Chin Lin, Matthew Howard, Sethu Vijayakumar. 1009-1015 [doi]
• Design, development and testing of a lightweight and compact locking mechanism for a passive knee prosthesisJoost Geeroms, Louis Flynn, Rene Jimenez-Fabian, Bram Vanderborght, Nicola Vitiello, Dirk Lefeber. 1016-1021 [doi]
• Comparative verification into gait motion of healthy subjects and trans-femoral amputee based on singular value decompositionYuichiro Hayashi, Nobutaka Tsujiuchi, Takayuki Koizumi, Yasushi Matsuda. 1022-1027 [doi]
• Comparison via Roll-Over Shape of the kinematic performance of two low-cost foot prosthesesEduardo Barocio, Karla Bustamante, Roger V. Gonzalez, Joel C. Huegel. 1028-1032 [doi]
• Preliminary design and evaluation of a multi-axis ankle-foot prosthesisEvandro M. Ficanha, Mohammad Rastgaar. 1033-1038 [doi]
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• Safety constrained motion control of mobility assistive robotsMilad Geravand, Angelika Peer. 1073-1078 [doi]
• Modeling and optimal control formulation for manual wheelchair locomotion: The influence of mass and slope on performanceM. Ackermann, F. Leonardi, H. R. Costa, A. T. Fleury. 1079-1084 [doi]
• Driving force assistance control for wheelchair operation using an exoskeletal robotNaoto Mizutani, Hirokazu Matsui, Ken'ichi Yano, Yasuyuki Kobayashi. 1085-1090 [doi]
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