Quantifying Viscous Damping and Stiffness in Parkinsonism Using Data-Driven Model Estimation
A. Werning, D. Umbarila, M. Fite…·D. Escobar Sanabria
This paper develops a robotic system and model-based approach to estimate viscous damping and stiffness in Parkinsonism, showing that these metrics decrease with deep brain stimulation and better differentiate rigidity changes than existing clinical scores.