Performance of cable suspended robots for upper limb rehabilitation

Author

Rosati, Giulio ; Andreolli, Mattia ; Biondi, Andrea ; Gallina, Paolo

Author_Institution

Univ. of Padua, Padova

fYear

2007

fDate

13-15 June 2007

Firstpage

385

Lastpage

392

Abstract

This work presents a general simulation tool to evaluate the performance of a set of cable suspended rehabilitation robots. Such a simulator is based on the mechanical model of the upper limb of a patient. The tool was employed to assess the performances of two cable-driven robots, the NeReBot and the MariBot, developed at the Robotics & Mechatronics Laboratories of the Department of Innovation in Mechanics and Management (DIMEG) of University of Padua, Italy. This comparison demonstrates that the second machine, which was conceived as an evolution of the first one, yields much better results in terms of patient´s arm trajectories.

Keywords

biomechanics; handicapped aids; medical robotics; patient rehabilitation; MariBot; NeReBot; cable suspended robots; patient arm trajectory; upper limb rehabilitation; Cables; Humans; Innovation management; Medical treatment; Mobile robots; Orbital robotics; Rehabilitation robotics; Robot sensing systems; Technological innovation; Wheelchairs;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Rehabilitation Robotics, 2007. ICORR 2007. IEEE 10th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Noordwijk

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1320-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1320-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICORR.2007.4428454

Filename

4428454