New issue of the IEEE Trans. MRB

New issue of the Trans. Medical Robotics and Bionics (AUG. 2021 vol.3 no. ISSN 2576-3202)

SPECIAL SECTION ON THE 8th IEEE RAS/EMBS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BIOMEDICAL ROBOTICS & BIOMECHATRONICS—BioRob 2020, edited  by S. K. Agrawal and E. T. Roche

• Design and Preliminary Results of a Reaction Force Series Elastic Actuator for Bionic Knee and Ankle Prostheses     by          M. E. Carney, T. Shu, R. Stolyarov, J.-F. Duval, and H. M. Herr
• Continuous Identification of Freezing of Gait in Parkinson’s Patients Using Artificial Neural Networks and Instrumented Shoes   by A. Prado, S. K. Kwei, N. Vanegas-Arroyave, and S. K. Agrawal
• Acquisition of Surface EMG Using Flexible and Low-Profile Electrodes for Lower Extremity Neuroprosthetic Control    by   S. H. Yeon, T. Shu, H. Song, T.-H. Hsieh, J. Qiao, E. A. Rogers, S. Gutierrez-Arango, E. Israel, L. E. Freed, and H. M. Herr
• A Pneumatically Driven, Disposable, Soft Robotic Gripper Equipped With Multi-Stage, Retractable, Telescopic Fingers      by G. Gao, C.-M. Chang, L. Gerez, and M. Liarokapis

REGULAR ISSUE REVIEW ARTICLES

• Review of Clinical and Technological Consideration for MRI-Guided Robotic Prostate Brachytherapy      by    S. S. Dhaliwal, T. Chettibi, S. Wilby, W. Polak, A. L. Palmer, N. Reynaert, and R. Merzouki
• Review: Hand Exoskeleton Systems, Clinical Rehabilitation Practices, and Future Prospects    by P. Tran, S. Jeong, K. R. Herrin, and J. P. Desai
• Supernumerary Robotic Limbs: A Review and Future Outlook   by  B. Yang, J. Huang, X. Chen, C. Xiong, and Y. Hasegawa
• A Review of the Performance of Extrinsically Powered Prosthetic Hands   by  R. Damerla, Y. Qiu, T. M. Sun, and S. Awtar
• Clinical Brain–Computer Interface Challenge 2020 (CBCIC at WCCI2020): Overview, Methods and Results     by  A. Chowdhury and J. Andreu-Perez
• An Investigation Into Miniaturised Closed-Loop DBS Devices     by      D. M. Corva, S. D. Adams, K. E. Bennet, P. Hashemi, M. Berk, and A. Z. Kouzani
• Review of Robot Skin: A Potential Enabler for Safe Collaboration, Immersive Teleoperation, and Affective Interaction of Future Collaborative Robots    by G. Pang, G. Yang, and Z. Pang

REGULAR ISSUE PAPERS

• Extending Reach Inside the MRI Bore: A 7-DOF, Low-Friction, Hydrostatic Teleoperator    by S. Frishman, R. D. Ings, V. Sheth, B. L. Daniel, and M. R. Cutkosky
• A First Evaluation of a Multi-Modal Learning System to Control Surgical Assistant Robots via Action Segmentation     by   G. De Rossi, M. Minelli, S. Roin, F. Falezza, A. Sozzi, F. Ferraguti, F. Setti, M. Bonfè, C. Secchi, and R. Muradore
• Bayesian Optimization for Design of Multi-Actuator Soft Catheter Robots      by       S. F. Ghoreishi, R. D. Sochol, D. Gandhi, A. Krieger, and M. Fuge
• Autonomous Planning and Intraoperative Augmented Reality Navigation for Neurosurgery     by   C. Kunz, M. Hlavᡠc, M. Schneider, A. Pala, P. Henrich, B. Jickeli, H. Wörn, B. Hein, R. Wirtz, and F. Mathis-Ullrich
• A Novel Mechanism for Gravity-Balancing of Serial Robots With High-Dexterity Applications      by     H. Jamshidifar, A. Khajepour, T. Sun, N. Schmitz, S. Jalali, R. Topor-Gosman, and J. Dong
• Vaginal Cuff Closure With Dual-Arm Robot and Near-Infrared Fluorescent Sutures      by      S. Leonard, J. Opfermann, N. Uebele, L. Carroll, R. Walter, C. Bayne, J. Ge, and A. Krieger
• Design of a Hip Exoskeleton With Actuation in Frontal and Sagittal Planes  by V. L. Chiu, M. Raitor, and S. H. Collins
• Development of a Soft Exosuit for Suppressing Essential Tremor  by  Y. Kobayashi, Y. Matsumoto, M. Kawasaki, A. Kato, T. Ando, M. Nagaoka, and M. G. Fujie
• Satisfying Task Completion and Assist-as-Needed Performance in Robotic Exoskeletons     by   H. Jabbari Asl, K. Katagiri, T. Narikiyo, M. Yamashita, and M. Kawanishi
• Adaptive Ankle Exoskeleton Control: Validation Across Diverse Walking Conditions   by S. Sadegh Pour Aji Bishe, T. Nguyen, Y. Fang, and Z. F. Lerner
• Sensor Fusion of Vision, Kinetics, and Kinematics for Forward Prediction During Walking With a Transfemoral Prosthesis   by    N. E. Krausz and L. J. Hargrove
• Design, Development, and Evaluation of a Bionic Knee-Ankle-Foot Orthosis Retrofit for Walking Gait Normalization    by    S. Payra and K. Mahadevan
• An Assistive Coughing Device for Post-Laryngectomy Patients  by    K. Yue, H. Lancashire, K. de Jager, J. Graveston, M. Birchall, A. Vanhoestenberghe, A. Conn, and J. Rossiter

SHORT PAPERS

• Biological Joint Loading and Exoskeleton Design   by R. L. Medrano, E. J. Rouse, and G. C. Thomas