- SEMINARIO - A mobility assistance Smart walker

DISERTANTE: Maria Martins, PhD, de la Universidad de Minho, Portugal
RESUMEN: Walkers play an important role, due to the large number of potential users, with a focus in the elderly, its simplicity and their ambulatory potential. They were designed to improve pathological gait, through a support base for the upper limbs that improves the balance of the individuals and reduces the load on their lower limbs.
This Research Project developed a robot for mobility assistance that is designed to be used in physiotherapy care centres and indoor houses by people suffering from gait disorders. This device is driven intelligently and it is integrated with a gait acquisition and processing tool for calculation of physical parameters gathered from the user when walking with the device.