Browsing by Subject "Robotics"

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      Analysis and passive control of a four-bar linkage for the rehabilitation of upper-limb motion 

      Xydas, E. G.; Louca, Loucas S.; Mueller, A. (American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2015)
      In the last two decades robotic rehabilitation research provided significant insight regarding the human-robot interaction, helped understand the process by which the impaired nervous system is retrained to better control ...
    • Doctoral Thesis  Open Access

      Design and analysis of novel routing protocols for vehicular delay tolerant networks 

      Stavrou, Demetris (Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, Πολυτεχνική Σχολή / University of Cyprus, Faculty of Engineering, 2016-05)
      Τα κινούμενα ρομπότ, ως η μετέπειτα γενεά των βιομηχανικών ρομπότ που έχουν εκμοντερνίσει την βιομηχανία, έχουν εισαγάγει τεράστιες ευκαιρίες τεχνολογικής ανάπτυξης στον σύγχρονο κόσμο. Με εφαρμογές που εκτείνονται από το ...
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      Design and development of a haptic peg-board exercise for the rehabilitation of people with multiple sclerosis 

      Xydas, E. G.; Louca, Loucas S. (Affiliation: Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Department, University of Cyprus, P.O. Box: 20537, Nicosia, CyprusAffiliation: Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Department, University of CyprusCorrespondence Address: Xydas, E. G.Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Department, University of Cyprus, P.O. Box: 20537, Nicosia, Cyprusemail: [email protected], 2007)
      Peg-in-Hole methods, like the Nine Hole Peg-Board Test (NHPT) and the Perdue board are widely employed for the functional assessment and therapy of the upper limbs of people with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Such passive devices ...
    • Article  

      Design optimization and robotic fabrication of tensile mesh structures: The development and simulation of a custom-made end-effector tool 

      Kontovourkis, O.; Tryfonos, George (2016)
      This article presents an ongoing research, aiming to introduce a fabrication procedure for the development of tensile mesh systems. The purpose of current methodology is to establish an integrated approach that combines ...
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      Evaluation metrics of upper extremities for people with neurological disorders: An energy based approach 

      Ilia, T.; Louca, Loucas S. (American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2017)
      Various neurological disorders, like Parkinson's disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Huntington's disease and Stroke, affect millions of people worldwide. Tremor that is a result of these disorders affects the performance of many ...
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      Identification of kinematic traits in 3D reaching Tasks with the use of a haptic Nine-Hole Peg-Board Test: Comparison between healthy people and people with Multiple Sclerosis 

      Xydas, E. G.; Louca, Loucas S. (Affiliation: Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Department, University of Cyprus, P.O. Box: 20537, Nicosia, CyprusAffiliation: Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Department, University of Cyprus, CyprusCorrespondence Address: Xydas, E. G.Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Department, University of Cyprus, P.O. Box: 20537, Nicosia, Cyprusemail: [email protected], 2008)
      Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a complex neurological disease that destroys the myelin sheath of the nerves, consequently affecting the motor control ability of the person in numerous ways. Rehabilitation of the upper limb ...
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      Low-complexity max-product algorithms for problems of multiple fault diagnosis 

      Le, T.; Hadjicostis, Christoforos N. (2008)
      In this paper, we propose low-complexity max-product algorithms for the problem of multiple fault diagnosis (MFD). The MFD problem is described by a bipartite diagnosis graph (BDG) which consists of a set of components, a ...
    • Article  

      Medical telerobotic systems: Current status and future trends 

      Avgousti, Sotiris; Christoforou, Eftychios G.; Panayides, Andreas S.; Voskarides, Sotos Ch; Novales, Cyril; Nouaille, Laurence; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Vieyres, Pierre P. (2016)
      Teleoperated medical robotic systems allow procedures such as surgeries, treatments, and diagnoses to be conducted across short or long distances while utilizing wired and/or wireless communication networks. This study ...
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      Optimal control of a two-wheeled mobile robot via finite capacity communication channel 

      Charalambous, Charalambos D.; Lambis, A.; Li, X. (2008)
      This paper presents specific hardware and components which can be used to implement optimal control strategies via wireless communication channels to achieve path tracking. The position of the robot at each time instant ...
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      A robotic cloud ecosystem for elderly care and ageing well: The GrowMeUp approach 

      Georgiadis, Dimosthenis; Christophorou, C.; Kleanthous, Styliani; Andreou, Panayiotis G.; Santos, L.; Christodoulou, Eleni; Samaras, George S. (Springer Verlag, 2016)
      Robotic systems in Ageing Well, like GrowMeUp, are among those assistive technologies, providing companionship and offering functionality related to the support of active and independent living, monitoring and maintaining ...
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      Robotic rehabilitation of people with multiple sclerosis with the use of a haptic nine-hole pegboard test 

      Xydas, E. G.; Louca, Loucas S. (2012)
      Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a complex neurological disease that destroys the myelin sheath of the nerves, consequently affecting the motor control ability in numerous ways. It has been shown that people with MS have the ...
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      A spiking neuron model: Applications and learning 

      Christodoulou, Chris C.; Bugmann, G.; Clarkson, T. G. (2002)
      This paper presents a biologically inspired, hardware-realisable spiking neuron model, which we call the Temporal Noisy-Leaky Integrator (TNLI). The dynamic applications of the model as well as its applications in Computational ...
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      Towards a versatile Surface Electromyography classification system 

      Barmpakos, D.; Strimpakos, N.; Karkanis, S. A.; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (Springer Verlag, 2016)
      The use of sEMG signals for the movement classification plays an important role in various applications from robotics to effective prosthetic limbs control. The performance of the classification scheme is severely influenced ...
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      Upper limb motion profile during small to medium time-limited reaching tasks in A VR based robotic training environment 

      Xydas, E. G.; Louca, Loucas S. (Affiliation: University of Cyprus, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, 75 Kallipoleos Street, Nicosia 1678, CyprusCorrespondence Address: Xydas, E. G.University of Cyprus, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, 75 Kallipoleos Street, Nicosia 1678, Cyprusemail: [email protected], 2008)
      In the area of rehabilitation robotics, many researchers have investigated the therapeutic effects of forces that are proportional to the difference of the user's hand trajectory with an optimum trajectory that is usually ...
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      Web robot detection: A probabilistic reasoning approach 

      Stassopoulou, Athena; Dikaiakos, Marios D. (2009)
      In this paper, we introduce a probabilistic modeling approach for addressing the problem of Web robot detection from Web-server access logs. More specifically, we construct a Bayesian network that classifies automatically ...