A compact robotic device for upper-limb reaching rehabilitation

This paper presents a compact linear-motion robotic device for upper-extremity reaching rehabilitation. Starting from conceptual design, the paper describes electronic circuit design and program development. The work develops a prototype that provides active and passive rehabilitation training. In active training, subjects actively move their arm with assistive or resistive force from the device to finish predefined displacement and force profiles. In passive training, subjects remain passive while the device moves the limb following the pre-defined displacement profile. Engineering specifications with adequate safety factor are determined and standard electronic and readily available mechanical components are exploited to keep the total cost low.

Citation

Cui, L. and Eng, Z. and Devene, J. and Tan, T. and Allison, G. 2014. A compact robotic device for upper-limb reaching rehabilitation, in Wang, Z. (ed), IEEE 4th Annual International Conference on Cyber Technology in Automation, Control, and Intelligent Systems (CYBER), Jun 4-7 2014, pp. 502-507. Hong Kong: IEEE.

Source Title

Cyber Technology in Automation, Control, and Intelligent Systems (CYBER), 2014 IEEE 4th Annual International Conference on

DOI

10.1109/CYBER.2014.6917515

ISBN

978-1-4799-3668-7

School

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Remarks

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URI

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/42116

Collection

Curtin Research Publications