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Considering the difficulty in regeneration the stroke patient's neurons by modern medicine, the rehabilitation robots are widely studied to help the patient reduce influence caused by the stroke illness. In this paper, the lower limb rehabilitation robot, which has eight degree of freedoms, is studied. The motion data of the lower limb rehabilitation robot are got by the great number of models provided...
Neurological injuries caused by stroke, spinal cord injury or other illnesses and accidents often lead to walking disabilities. If not properly treated, gait disorders can lead to impaired physical and mental health, reduced physical activity, falls, fear of falling, loss of independence and the need for continuous medical care. After an accident or the start of an illness it is important to start...
A prototype for a walking assistance apparatus for the elderly or motor palsy patients was developed, using a novel spatial parallel link mechanism. The flat steps of the apparatus move in parallel with the ground; the apparatus can support entire leg alignment (including soles) and assist; walking behavior at ankle, knee and hip joints simultaneously. By using a flexible link, constructed of stainless...
Rehabilitation robot is a type of assistant recovery equipment designed particularly for the sick people having difficulty in walking to get gait rehabilitation training, the research on joint flexibility is of great significance for the program making of walking gait control. The three closed-loops PID control method was proposed for the lower-limb rehabilitation robot MACCEPA (mechanically adjustable...
In this article current development works of a 3D human movement analysis system are presented which aims to meet the demands for the routine application in the clinical everyday life. The sensory base of the system is a depth camera. Important considered criteria are: easy integration in an available clinical environment, small set-up time at the patient and quick realization of the measurement as...
During the last decades, many robotic platforms aimed at post-stroke neurorehabilitation of locomotion have been developed. These devices have been designed to enhance the possibilities of conventional rehabilitation providing safe, highly accurate, intensive and prolonged treatments. Nevertheless, up to now, robotic aided therapy has not yet promoted improvements of the motor performance significantly...
In this paper, we introduce a gait generation concept for rehabilitation, namely GaitGen. GaitGen aims to provide objective gait planning for rehabilitation. An established formula of normalized gait parameters has been studied via GAITRite. Thirty subjects are recruited for the GAITRite experiment. L-index is introduced to study the significance of leg length in the modified normalized gait parameters...
Current clinical practice of robot-aided gait training is not as effective as expected. Cooperative control strategies aim at improving the effectiveness of robot-aided training by empowering patients to participate more actively. Our group has recently proposed the concept of bio-cooperative control, which explicitely considers the role of the human in the loop, as an extension of these strategies...
In this paper, we propose a gait generation concept for rehabilitation, in which GaitGen, a gait pattern generator is introduced. The concept of GaitGen will be explained. GaitGen aims to provide objective gait planning for rehabilitation. Gait-related studies have been carried out for the validation and enhancement of GaitGen. Motion capture system has been used for gait database collection. An established...
Robotic aided therapy has been developed in the last decades in order to improve the effects of gait rehabilitation on stroke patients. Although several platforms have nowadays used in clinical practice, contrasting results have been achieved with reduced significant improvements in stroke patients when they experience robotic based therapy. In particular, an improvement of the clinical outcome may...
This paper describes the development of a gait rehabilitation system with a locomotion interface (LI). The LI consists of two 2 DOF manipulators equipped with footpads. These can move the user's feet while his or her body remains stationary. The footpads follow the prerecorded motion of the feet of a healthy individual. For gait training, the user progresses iteratively through successively more advanced...
In this study, we aim at developing a mechanical device to support human rehabilitation motion of their wrist joint instead of a physiotherapist. Pneumatic parallel manipulator is introduced as a mechanical equipment from a view that pneumatic actuators bring minute force control property owing to the air compressibility and parallel manipulator's feature of multiple degrees of freedom is suitable...
Research in robot-assisted gait rehabilitation has seen significant improvements in human-robot interaction, thanks to high performance actuator technologies and dedicated control strategies. In this context we propose a combination of lightweight, intrinsically compliant, high power actuators (pleated pneumatic artificial muscles, PPAMs) with safe and adaptable guidance along a trajectory by means...
Improving admittance of robotic joints is the key issue for making rehabilitation robots safe. This paper describes a design of redundant drive joint (RD-Joint) which allows greater flexibility in the design of robotic mechanisms. The design strategy of the RD-joint employs a systematic approach which consists of 1) adopting a redundant joint mechanism with internal kinematical redundancy to reduce...
Lesions of the central nervous system often lead to walking impairments. Primary rehabilitation aims at the improvement of the gait capacity by application of task oriented training regimes utilizing the inherent capability of neural networks for reorganization. However, a sufficient training intensity for enhancement of this neuroplasticity can only be achieved during the inpatient phase, which -...
Gait training of stroke survivors can help in retraining their muscles and improving their gait pattern. Robot assisted gait training (RAGT) was developed for stroke survivors using ALEX and force-field controller, which use assist-as-needed paradigm for rehabilitation. In this paradigm undesirable gait motion is resisted and assistance is provided towards the desirable motion. The force-field controller...
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...
Robotic gait trainers are used all over the world for the rehabilitation of stroke patients, despite relatively little is known about how the robots should be controlled to achieve the optimal improvement. Most devices control complete joint trajectories and assume symmetry between both legs by either a position or an impedance control. However we believe that the control should not be on a joint...
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