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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2022

The Middleware for an Exoskeleton Assisting Upper Limb Movement.

Przemyslaw Strzelczyk, Krzysztof Tomczewski, Krzysztof Wrobel

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 51% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Przemyslaw StrzelczykThe Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automatic Control and Informatics, Opole University of Technology, 45-758 Opole, Poland.
Krzysztof TomczewskiThe Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automatic Control and Informatics, Opole University of Technology, 45-758 Opole, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-0762-3783
Krzysztof WrobelThe Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automatic Control and Informatics, Opole University of Technology, 45-758 Opole, Poland.ORCID 0000-0001-6979-0467
Opole University of Technology · PL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This article presents the possibilities of newly developed middleware dedicated for distributed and modular control systems. The software enables the exchange of information locally, within one control module, and globally, between many modules. The executed information exchange system speed tests confirmed the correct operation of the software. The middleware was used in the control system of the active upper-limb exoskeleton. The upper-limb rehabilitation exoskeleton structure with six degrees of mechanical freedom is presented. The tests were performed using the prototype with three joints. The drives' models of individual joints were developed and simulated. As a result, the courses of the motion trajectory were shown for different kinds of pressure on the force sensors, and different methods of signal filtering. The tests confirmed a correct operation of middleware and drives control system.

Indexed as

Exoskeleton DeviceBiomechanical PhenomenaGravitationMovementUpper Extremitycontrol systemmiddlewarerehabilitationsimulationupper limb exoskeleton

Identifiers

PMID35458977
PMCPMC9032928
OpenAlexW4224093174

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