Abstract
AbstractWrist rehabilitation is needed to help post-stroke and post-surgery patients recover from wrist fracture or injury. Traditional rehabilitation training is conducted by a therapist in a hospital, which hinders timely treatment due to the corresponding time and space constraints. This paper presents the design and implementation of a soft parallel robot for automated wrist rehabilitation. The presented wrist rehabilitation robot integrates the advantages of both soft robot and parallel robot structures. Unlike traditional rigid-body based rehabilitation robots, this soft parallel robot exhibits a compact structure, which is highly secure, adaptable, and flexible and thus a low-cost solution for personalized treatment. The proposed soft wrist-rehabilitation robot is driven by six evenly distributed linear actuators using pneumatic artificial muscles and one central linear electric motor. The introduced parallel-kinematic mechanism design enables the enhancement of the output stiffness of the soft robot for practical use. An electromyography sensor is adopted to provide feedback signals for evaluating the rehabilitation training process. A kinematic model of the designed robot is derived, and a prototype is fabricated for experimental testing. The results demonstrate that the developed soft rehabilitation robot can assist the wrist to realize all the required training motions, including abduction-adduction, flexion-extension, and supination-pronation. The compact and lightweight structure of this novel robot makes it convenient to use, and suitable rehabilitation training modes can be chosen for tailored rehabilitation at home or in a hospital.
Funder
Fundo para o Desenvolvimento das Ciências e da Tecnologia
Universidade de Macau
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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