Journal Articles
Vinayagamoorthy, Pooja, Chockalingam, Manigandan, Mathew, Asha, Jones, Jerome Dany Praveen Raj, John, Judy Ann, Prabhakar, A. T., Varadhan, S. K. M. and Balasubramanian, Sivakumar (2026). Protocol for a multi-perspective exploration of technology requirements for home-based upper-limb tabletop functional task training with minimal supervision: a mixed-methods and qualitative descriptive study. BMJ Open, 16 (8) e117703, 1-10. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2026-117703
Balasubramanian, Sivakumar (2026). A structural causal model for robot-assisted upper-limb neurorehabilitation. Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences, 7 1819379, 1-21. doi: 10.3389/fresc.2026.1819379
Jeyabalan, Prem Kumar Mathavan, Thiagu, S., Nehrujee, Aravind, Sujatha, S. and Balasubramanian, Sivakumar (2026). Motorized Arm Support (MARS)-an underactuated robot for adaptive arm de-weighting in neurorehabilitation. IEEE Access, 14, 23244-23256. doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2026.3657054
Neelakandan, Parvathy, Varadhan, S. K.M. and Balasubramanian, Sivakumar (2025). Autoencoder-based Approaches for Upper Limb Use Detection. IEEE Access, 13, 148016-148025. doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3598806
Yuvaraj, Monisha, Prabakar, A. T., Skm, Varadhan, Burdet, Etienne, Ramos-Murguialday, Ander and Balasubramanian, Sivakumar (2025). Identification of patient-specific EMG detectors for robot-assisted therapy using rest and move state EMG data. IEEE Access, 13, 197437-197448. doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3628296
Yuvaraj, Monisha, Raja, Priyanka, David, Ann, Burdet, Etienne, SKM, Varadhan and Balasubramanian, Sivakumar (2024). A systematic investigation of detectors for low signal-to-noise ratio EMG signals. F1000Research, 12 429, 429. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.132382.3
Balasubramanian, Sivakumar (2024). GMAC-A simple measure to quantify upper limb use from wrist-worn accelerometers. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 32, 2513-2521. doi: 10.1109/TNSRE.2024.3417964
Jeyabalan, Prem Kumar Mathavan, Nehrujee, Aravind, Elias, Samuel, Kumar, M. Magesh, Sujatha, S. and Balasubramanian, Sivakumar (2023). Design and characterization of a self-aligning end-effector robot for single-joint arm movement rehabilitation. Robotics, 12 (6) 149, 149. doi: 10.3390/robotics12060149
Nehrujee, Aravind, Prabhakar, A. T., Balaraman, Sathish, Bombatkar, Rasika, Prakash, Henry, Samuelkamaleshkumar, Selvaraj, Aaron, Sanjith, Bhattacharji, Suranjan, Sujatha, S. and Balasubramanian, Sivakumar (2023). The facilitators and barriers to home-based robotic rehabilitation in India: a pilot feasibility study. Frontiers in Stroke, 2 1265702. doi: 10.3389/fstro.2023.1265702
Conference Papers
Yuvaraj, Monisha, Varadhan, S. K.M., Burdet, Etienne, Ramos-Murguialday, Ander and Balasubramanian, Sivakumar (2025). An Unsupervised Approach to Identify an Optimal Detector for Application in EMG-Driven Robot-Assisted Therapy. 6th International Conference on Neurorehabilitation (ICNR 2024), La Granja, Spain, 5–8 November 2024. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-77588-8_138
Jeyabalan, Prem Kumar Mathavan, Sujatha, S. and Balasubramanian, Sivakumar (2025). Kinematic Design of a Minimally Actuated Arm Rehabilitation Robot - Motorized Arm Support (MARS). 6th International Conference on Neurorehabilitation, La Granja, Spain, 5-8 November 2024. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-77588-8_94
Neelakandan, Parvathy, Varadhan, S. K. M. and Balasubramanian, Sivakumar (2024). Feature Extraction Using Autoencoders For Upper Limb Use Detection. 6th International Conference on Neurorehabilitation, La Granja, Spain, 5-8 November 2024. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-77584-0_87