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This chapter highlights open research areas that must be addressed in order for the rehabilitation technology described in previous chapters to translate to patients’ homes, where it can be used without direct supervision from a therapist over longer training periods. These include: (1) mechanisms to reduce or eliminate lengthy and often fatiguing model identification tests, (2) approaches for controllers to automatically compensate for physiological changes such as fatigue, spasticity and change in electrode position, and (3) current progress in developing ES hardware which is easy to don and doff, and incorporates as few components and wires as possible. Finally, routes are highlighted to embed greater functionality into the proposed control framework, together with wider application areas in which it may be exploited.
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Freeman, C. (2016). Conclusions and Future Research Directions. In: Control System Design for Electrical Stimulation in Upper Limb Rehabilitation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25706-8_10
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