• DocumentCode
    486835
  • Title

    A Servomotor Controller for Simulating Human Motion in the Testing of Rehabilitation Equipment Dynamics

  • Author

    Charlton, John D. ; Heileman, Gregory L. ; Genova, Perry A. ; Brickley, James J., Jr.

  • Author_Institution
    Biomedical Engineering, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Isotechnologies, Inc., Carrboro, NC 27510
  • fYear
    1986
  • fDate
    18-20 June 1986
  • Firstpage
    2064
  • Lastpage
    2065
  • Abstract
    This paper presents the design of a simple digital servomotor control algorithm used to simulate human motion in the testing of rehabilitation/exercise equipment performance. Design performance specifications were determined to simulate typical human motion torque and dynamics. The motor was modelled mathematically, and the parameters of the model were obtained from a step input response. The minimal prototype method was used to obtain a digital control algorithm, which was implemented in the FORTH language on a PDP 11/23 computer.
  • Keywords
    Algorithm design and analysis; Computational modeling; Digital control; Humans; Mathematical model; Motion control; Prototypes; Servomotors; Testing; Torque;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    American Control Conference, 1986
  • Conference_Location
    Seattle, WA, USA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    4789269