Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, 2020 · DOI: 10.32598/bcn.11.1.173.2 · Published: January 1, 2020
The patients with spinal cord injury or stroke either cannot walk normally or cannot walk at all. So far, no clinical treatment approaches have been approved for gait recovery in such patients. Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) is an effective approach for movement recovery in paralyzed limbs based on the stimulation of neuromuscular systems. According to the study results, the proposed control strategy could control gait using FES with acceptable performance.
The proposed control strategy can be used to implement the new version of the FES-based rehabilitation prosthesis for gait control in patients with spinal cord injury or some post-stroke conditions.
The control strategy automatically restricted the motion of the knee angle and hip angle to move within the normal range without the need to consider any control constraints.
The intermittent control strategies could postpone the occurrence of muscle fatigue elicited from functional electrical stimulation and reduce energy consumption.