Title :
Lower limb rehabilitation robot
Author :
Chen, Shuping ; Wang, Yang ; Li, Shujun ; Wang, Guoan ; Huang, Ying ; Mao, Xin
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Mech. Eng. & Autom., Northeast Univ., China
Abstract :
This paper describes a new prototype of lower limb rehabilitation robot (for short: LLRR), including its detailed structure, operative principles, manipulative manual and control mode which give considerate protection to patients. It implements the programmable process during the course of the limbs rehabilitation, furthermore, renders variable and predetermined step posture and force sensing. LLRR could assist patient in-simulating normal people´s footsteps, exercising leg muscles, gradually recovering the neural control toward walking function and finally walking in normal way utterly. Such robot is comprised with steps posture controlling system and weight alleviation controlling mechanism.
Keywords :
handicapped aids; patient rehabilitation; robots; control mode; detailed structure; force sensing; lower limb rehabilitation robot; manipulative manual; neural control; operative principles; step posture; Control systems; Leg; Legged locomotion; Mechanical engineering; Medical robotics; Muscles; Rehabilitation robotics; Robot sensing systems; Robotics and automation; Weight control; Linkage; lower limb; rehabilitation robot;
Conference_Titel :
Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robots, 2009. ReMAR 2009. ASME/IFToMM International Conference on
Conference_Location :
London
Print_ISBN :
978-88-89007-37-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-876346-58-4