Control of a Soft Medical Exoskeleton via a Bio-inspired Approach

It has been proved that continued training recovery for the patients who suffer limb movement disorder helps them in therapy protocols. However, the specialty and numbers of therapist often limit the rehabilitation to these patients. Thus, employing robotic equipment to provide the treatment capabil...

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Published in2021 6th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics (ICARM) pp. 257 - 261
Main Authors Chi, Haozhen, Su, Hairong, Ren, Qinyuan
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 03.07.2021
Subjects
Actuators
Biological system modeling
Exoskeletons
Medical treatment
Pneumatic systems
Stability analysis
Training
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Summary:It has been proved that continued training recovery for the patients who suffer limb movement disorder helps them in therapy protocols. However, the specialty and numbers of therapist often limit the rehabilitation to these patients. Thus, employing robotic equipment to provide the treatment capability is a way out of this dilemma. Considering the compliance and continuous deformation capacity, a robotic exoskeleton actuated by Pneumatic Arti?cial Muscles (PAMs) is designed as the rehabilitation equipment for elbow joint. Moreover, to precisely control the PAM soft actuator of the proposed equipment, a bio-inspired control approach is explored. Finally, several simulations have been conducted to verify the effectiveness of the proposed system.
DOI:10.1109/ICARM52023.2021.9536117