Academic Press Powered Prostheses: Design, Control, and Clinical Applications

Product Description Powered Prostheses: Design, Control, and Clinical Applications presents the state-of-the-art in design, control and application of assistive technologies used in rehabilitation, including powered prostheses used in lower and upper extremity amputees and orthosis used in the rehabilitation of various joint disorders. The progress made in this field over the last decade is so vast that any new researcher in this field will have to spend years digesting the main achievements and challenges that remain. This book provides a comprehensive vision of advances, along with the challenges that remain on the path to the development of true bionic technology. Review Presents the state-of-the-art in design, control, and application of assistive technologies used in rehabilitation About the Author Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, California State University Channel Islands, Camarillo, USA Assistant Professor, Director of the Human Performance and Robotics Laboratory, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department - ECS 645, California State University Long Beach, USA Mo Rastgaar is an associate professor at Polytechnic Institute at Purdue University. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech in 2008 and continued his research as a postdoc at MIT till 2010. He was an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering at Michigan Tech prior to joining Purdue in 2019. His research interests are Dynamics, Controls, Human-Robot Physical Interactions, and Design and Control of Assistive Robots and Robotic Prostheses.