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Upper Limb Tremor Suppression in ADL via an Orthosis Incorporating a Controllable Double Viscous Beam Actuator.
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Upper Limb Tremor Suppression in ADL via an Orthosis Incorporating a Controllable Double Viscous Beam Actuator Rui C.V. Loureiro, The University of Reading, UKJuan M. Belda-Lois, Instituto de Biomecanica de Valencia, Spain; Eduardo R. Lima, Instituto de Automatica Industrial (CSIC- IAI), Spain;Jose L. Pons, Instituto de Automatica Industrial (CSIC- IAI), Spain; Javier J. Sanchez-Lacuesta, Instituto de Biomecanica de Valencia, Spain; William S. Harwin, The University of Reading, UK • Design and testing of an orthosis incorporating a novel actuator based on MR fluids. • Modelling, implementation and validation of tremor suppression algorithms. • Preliminary results for subject with ET using 4Ns/mm damping coefficient: • tremor suppression approx. -43dB at 4Hz, voluntary motion -17dB at 1Hz. DVB orthosis prototype WePo01.17