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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...
The main focus of our research is to control the load of selected muscles by using a power-assisting device, thus enabling pinpointed motion support, rehabilitation and training by explicitly specifying the target muscles. In our past research, a control method was proposed for static human motion. And the result of simulation and experiments showed that it is possible to control the force of selected...
Robots are expected to come in direct contact with human at care facilities and/or homes soon. Motivated by the application of holding and/or transferring a patient applying a robot, this paper introduces the dynamic model, static analysis and control algorithm for nonprehensile manipulation of a two-rigid-link object applying two cooperative arms. Newton-Euler equations are applied for formulating...
Total Knee/Hip Replacement(TKR/THR) is one of the most important orthopedic surgical techniques of this century. If patient's whole joint is damaged, an artificial joint (total hip/knee replacement surgery) can relieve patient's pain and help the patient get back normal activities. The goal for TKR/THR is to relieve the pain in the joint caused by the damage done to the cartilage. The surgeon will...
This paper focuses on steering a 3D robot while walking on a flat surface. A hybrid feedback controller designed in for stable walking along a straight line is modified so that it is capable of adjusting the net yaw rotation of the robot over a step in order to steer the robot along paths with mild curvature. The controller is designed on the basis of a single pre-defined trajectory for periodic walking...
Many daily tasks require that a person use both hands simultaneously, such as moving a large book or opening the lid on a jar. Such bimanual tasks are difficult for people who have a stroke, but the tight neural coupling across the body has been hypothesized to allow individuals to self-rehabilitate by physically coupling their hands. To examine potential methods for robot-assisted bimanual rehabilitation,...
We aim at experimental verification of the efficiency of natural-motion path tracking (i.e. tracking speed in proportion to the determinant of the Jacobian) in comparison to constant-speed path tracking. This is done first via simulations, with a simple planar manipulator and then with a six-DOF manipulator. From the results it becomes apparent that natural-motion path tracking outperforms constant-speed...
The aim of our study is to construct a Humanoid with enhanced bipedal walk, which can be utilized in the Medical Sector, as an effective substitute for Artificial Limbs. With reference to the human body, we have designed a humanoid such that the joints are exposed to zero friction, and the efficiency of the motor is increased. The natural phenomenon in the human to adjust the center of gravity and...
A 3-DOF planar robotic arm is designed and used as a rehabilitation treatment tool for the survivor after suffering a stroke, aiming to assist them to recover upper-limb function. In order to strengthen the patient's arm, some forces are desired to be followed while the position trajectories should be tracked simultaneously, therefore hybrid impedance control (HIC) is proposed. Due to the redundancy...
In order to aid walking and limb rehabilitation training, a four-degree pelvic pose and position control mechanism of walking aid robot is discussed based on the motion laws of human pelvic. By applying modified D-H method, a kinematical coordinate system of the pose and position control mechanism is set up and the forward and inverse kinematics models are also built up. After the design of control...
This paper analyzes cause of control errors for 5 DOF exoskeleton upper-limb rehabilitation robot. Based on the method of typical repetitive control, let multiple improved repetitive control loops with filtering parallel embed into closed-loop of control system in order to eliminate motion error of rehabilitation robot with multi-channel periodic input signal. The simulation results show that the...
To perform essential daily activities the movement of shoulder, elbow, and wrist play a vital role and therefore proper functioning of upper-limb is very much essential. We therefore have been developing an exoskeleton robot (ExoRob) to rehabilitate and to ease upper limb motion. Toward to make a complete (i.e., 7DOF) upper-arm motion assisted robotic exoskeleton this paper focused on the development...
Based on motion characteristics of the upper-limb rehabilitation robot in the rehabilitation training, the article proposes to use a new method of repetitive control to restraining joint position error for upper-limb rehabilitation robot control system. First, repetitive motion of joint position regards as a fixed-cycle signal, and then designs a repetitive controller according to motion characteristics...
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...
This paper discusses about a haptic communication system. Recently the haptic information is attracted attention as the third sense of communication information. And the real world haptics is the key technology for the haptic communication. However, the present approach of the teleoperation system postulates that human touches the remote object via the device like as the remote surgery. Considering...
The use of robotic assistive devices and exoskeletons to supply movement therapy for the rehabilitation of patients following variety of diseases is noticeably growing presently. In order to provide consistent therapy as well as walking assistance, we are developing a wearable lower-limb exoskeleton robot with an adaptive foot device for better walking ability and enhanced stability. In this paper,...
The authors are developing a knee joint robot as an educational tool for students becoming physical therapist (PT) or occupational therapist (OT). The robot can simulate some problems of a knee joint, such as range of motion trouble, contracture, rigidity, spasticity and so on. The robot has a knee joint mechanism to realize not only flexion/extension movement but also inner/outer rotation movement,...
This paper presents the development of new prismatic actuation approach and its application in human-safe humanoid head design. To reduce actuator output impedance and mitigate unexpected external shock, the prismatic actuation method uses cables to drive a piston with preloaded spring. By leveraging the advantages of parallel manipulator and cable-driven mechanism, the developed neck has a parallel...
This paper proposes motion instruction system with the interactive robot suit HAL (hybrid assistive limb) for supporting physically challenged persons, enhancing and expanding the human ability. HAL consists of external frames, actuators, various sensors, and a control PC with ethernet device and has not only been developed to assist the motion of wearer's body, but also can be applied to motion instruction...
A legged locomotor device for paraplegics have been attempted to improve their ADL and to prevent some complications. A stride control of the system based on the user's intension is important to coordinate the voluntary movements of the user and the assisted movements of the paralyzed legs. In this paper, we propose a human interface with a walker to control the stride length of a legged locomotor...
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