Title :
A 2DOF platform for ankle sprain rehabilitation
Author :
Boukhenous, Samir ; Benbakhti, Anwar ; Touchen, A. ; Attari, Mokhtar
Author_Institution :
Lab. of Instrum., LINS, USTHB, Algiers, Algeria
Abstract :
In this work, two-degree-of-freedom (2DOF) platform for ankle sprain rehabilitation is designed and realized. These instrumented platforms were designed for clinical rehabilitation of the repetitive movement of ankle with changing direction. Four motors have been used for 2DOF motion control. A Microsystems based on microcontroller was realized for driving the whole instrumentation. For proper monitoring of the ankle rehabilitation, we found it useful to insert an accelerometer for measuring the angle of inclination; this measurement is taken from the measurement of static acceleration.
Keywords :
acceleration measurement; accelerometers; microcontrollers; motion control; patient monitoring; patient rehabilitation; 2DOF motion control; 2DOF platform; Microsystems; accelerometer; ankle rehabilitation monitoring; ankle repetitive movement; ankle sprain rehabilitation; clinical rehabilitation; inclination angle measurement; microcontroller; static acceleration measurement; two-degree-of-freedom platform; Acceleration; Accelerometers; Foot; Instruments; Ligaments; Microcontrollers; Monitoring; Ankle; accelerometer; platform; rehabilitation; sprain; stability;
Conference_Titel :
Electronics, Computer and Computation (ICECCO), 2013 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Ankara
DOI :
10.1109/ICECCO.2013.6718219
