A Robotic Training System for Studies of Post-SCI Stand Rehabilitation

Author

Liang, Yongqiang ; Cai, Lance L. ; Burdick, Joel W. ; Edgerton, V. Reggie

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. Eng., Bioeng., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA

fYear

2006

fDate

20-22 Feb. 2006

Firstpage

51

Lastpage

56

Abstract

This paper describes a robotic training system designed to rehabilitate the standing ability of mice after spinal cord injury (SCI). The system is composed of a 6 degree-of-freedom (DOF) parallel mechanism, an active weight support system, and other measuring equipments which can monitor the response of the mouse. Preliminary experiments showed that the mouse could generate a certain degree of weight-support stand response during the training

Keywords

manipulators; mechanoception; medical robotics; neurophysiology; orthotics; patient rehabilitation; training; active weight support system; parallel manipulator; post-spinal cord injury stand rehabilitation; robotic training system; six-degree-of-freedom parallel mechanism; weight-support stand response; Animals; Biomedical engineering; Circuits; Humans; Mechanical engineering; Mice; Neuromuscular; Rehabilitation robotics; Robot sensing systems; Spinal cord;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, 2006. BioRob 2006. The First IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on

Conference_Location

Pisa

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0040-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BIOROB.2006.1639059

Filename

1639059