Rehabilitation Technologies by Integrating Exoskeletons, Aquatic Therapy, and Quantum Computing for Enhanced Patient Outcomes

Fabio Salgado-Gomes-Sagaz, Vanessa Zorrilla-Muñoz, Nicolas Garcia-Aracil, Konstantinos Katzis, Dragana Bajic, Gordana Gardasevic · 2024

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Fabio Salgado-Gomes-Sagaz, Vanessa Zorrilla-Muñoz, Nicolas Garcia-Aracil, and a team of co-authors combine several tools to help patients regain movement. Water therapy eases joint stress, and powered exoskeletons can guide weak limbs. The controllers that drive the frames, though, must be both smooth and exact.

In a leg exoskeleton, a standard controller proved unstable. So the team blended two styles. A fuzzy controller handles the broad sweep of motion gently, and a precise tracker takes over for fine positioning. Mixing the two in set proportions gave steadier, more accurate movement. The authors also test whether quantum computing tricks could tune such controllers in real time, sketching a path for future rehabilitation devices.

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CREATORFabio Salgado-Gomes-Sagaz, Vanessa Zorrilla-Muñoz, Nicolas Garcia-Aracil, Konstantinos Katzis, Dragana Bajic, Gordana Gardasevic
YEAR2024
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE112 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11645084

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