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The main aim of this paper is to design a hybrid force-position controller using fuzzy logic (FL) for the robotic arm of a 9 degrees of freedom (DOF) upper limb wearable exoskeleton rehabilitation robot. The robot is designed and built in our lab for assisting in the rehabilitation of patients post-stroke. The robotic arm of the rehabilitation robot is driven by pneumatic muscles (PM) and its dynamic...
In this study, basic research to obtain biomechanical parameters for optimized design of wearable walking assistant robot was presented and discussed in the condition of its application to the dynamic analysis of gait. Numerous studies are being conducted in order to develop intelligent walking assist devices. However, the reliability, effectiveness and durability of such intelligent walking assist...
In this study, a visual-guided robotic endodontic therapeutic system was assessed, a specially designed visual servo controller model is also proposed in this system. Visual-guided robotic system will be mounted on the teeth within patient's mouth, while robot controller, and a root-canal image processor have shared control over its motion. With an on-line monitoring and positioning control, the multipurpose...
Rehabilitation Robot is a typical man-machine cooperation robot, which can drive the affected limbs to carry out various motor function recovery trainings within the same workspace of patients. To ensure the safety and comfort of the affected limbs during the training process, the system controller is designed based on the impedance control principle, thus the controller can make the robot has a certain...
This paper presents the control architecture and preliminary experimental results of a high performance parallel robot used for ankle rehabilitation. The goal of this work was to design suitable control algorithms for diagnostic, training and rehabilitation of the ankle in presence of musculoskeletal injuries. A position control scheme is used for patient-passive exercises while an admittance control...
Recently, doctor and medical care persons are shortage by the aging of population. Thus, robot support systems are needed for medical care. The motion of the human support system is controlled by routine. Position control and velocity control is usual method. These controls are not considered the human motion. This paper proposes method of human support system using motion coping system. The motion...
Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries have become more common in recent years as more young people participate in risky sporting activities. Most ACL injuries occur as a result of noncontact mechanisms. Previous in vitro studies of ACL strain have found significant increases in ACL strain primarily with anterior directed force on the tibia relative to the femur and with internal rotation and often...
A robust cascade strategy is proposed and tested on an electropneumatic testbed for parallel robotic applications. It is applied on Pneumatic Artificial Muscles (PAMs). Nonlinear models are developed and presented. By specifying the pressure average between the two muscles, it is possible to control the torque by controlling the pressure in each muscle. A constrained LMI based H∞ controller is synthesized...
Numerous researches have been carried out to use robot in the area of stroke rehabilitations. The conventional approach is to assist patient to perform Activities of Daily Living (ADL) through a set of pre-programmed trajectories. The main drawback lies in the lack of voluntary movement by the patient. Many of these works have been carried out by using positional feedback control. In this kind of...
The this work deals with neural network-based gait-pattern adaptation algorithms for an active lower limbs orthosis. Stable trajectories are generated during the optimization process, considering a stable trajectory generator based on the Zero Moment Point criterion and the inverse dynamic model. Additionally, two neural network (NN) are used to decrease the time-consuming computation of the model...
The paper presents an introduction of virtual reality environments to the commercial single-joint rehabilitation robot. A dynamometer has been modified to the level that enables gait goniogram based position control. The robot mimics the isolated joint movement while the subject is required to perform the task in the virtual environment. The subject generates joint torque to control the object in...
The goal of this work is the development and performance analysis of control algorithms for new soft fluidic actuators with rotary elastic chambers (REC-actuators). Due to their inherent compliancy these actuators fulfill the requisites for building intrinsically safe mechanisms as assistance robots and motion therapy devices, working in direct physical contact with humans. Besides the difficulties...
An overview is provided of the design, operation and performance of an experimental test facility that has been developed for stroke rehabilitation. The aim of the system is to improve sensory-motor function of the impaired upper limb, and it has recently been used in clinical trials with stroke participants. During treatment subjects were seated at the workstation and their impaired arm strapped...
This paper reports on the powered elbow orthosis for orthopaedic rehabilitation project and its main challenges. The mechanical design is briefly discussed. The actuator being used is the novel rotational actuator, MACCEPA or Mechanically Adjustable Compliance and Controllable Equilibrium Position Actuator. The schematic representation and working principle of this actuator are recapitulated in short...
In this paper the trajectory tracking control of the arm rehabilitation robot for stroke patients is investigated by an interactive robust control approach. The functions of patients' voluntary joint torques are designed depending on the motion ability of their arms, and the dynamic model of the human-robot system is presented. Based on the dynamic model, an interactive controller is designed to provide...
The surgical robot instruments conduct an operation in the body on behalf of the surgeon's hands. However working inside a body prohibits attaching electronic sensors in addition to space restriction. Therefore, all commercial surgical robots are only operated in position control mode becuase there is no way to measure the working force at instrument. The position control mode of the robot system...
This paper presents ABLE, an innovative exoskeleton for the upper limb currently under development at CEA-LIST Interactive Robotics Unit. Its distinctive high performance mechanical transmissions - screw and cable patented arrangement - and its integrated architecture makes it the very first of its category. The first 4 axis model is described here but more complete models are already planned: a 7...
The rehabilitation robot Lokomat allows automated treadmill training for patients with neurological gait disorders. The basic position control approach for the robot has been extended to patient-cooperative strategies. These strategies provide more freedom and allow patients to actively influence their training. However, patients are likely to need additional support during patient-cooperative training...
In this paper we introduce a friction observer for robots with joint torque sensing (in particular for the DLR medical robot) in order to increase the positioning accuracy and the performance of torque control. The observer output corresponds to the low-pass filtered friction torque. It is used for friction compensation in conjunction with a MIMO controller designed for flexible joint arms. A passivity...
In this paper, we use Cartesian parallel mechanism (CPM) as the key module of the constructed knee surgical robot. In the constructed robot, the limited workspace and high rigidity of Cartesian parallel manipulator provide the surgical robot with enhanced safety and high cutting accuracy. The complex kinematics of parallel manipulators is also avoided because of the decoupled feature of the CPM. The...
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