Title :
Development of a physical therapy robot for rehabilitation databases
Author :
Yokoo, Tomonori ; Yamada, Mitsuyuki ; Sakaino, Sho ; Abe, Shigeru ; Tsuji, Toshiaki
Author_Institution :
Grad. Sch. of Sci. & Eng., Saitama Univ., Saitama, Japan
Abstract :
With increasing demands for rehabilitation, the need for physical therapy robots is also increasing. This paper proposes the construction of a rehabilitation database inspired with medical cloud technologies. We discuss the possibility of establishing a new validation methodology by generating a database based on the data collected using rehabilitation equipment. In this research, data was obtained by rehabilitation equipment and statistical processing was applied to the data to investigate an example of a validation method. The experimental results suggest that improvement of tracking property of subjects is much larger than improvement of maneuverability.
Keywords :
cloud computing; control engineering computing; database management systems; medical computing; medical robotics; statistical analysis; medical cloud technologies; physical therapy robot development; rehabilitation database; rehabilitation databases; rehabilitation equipment; statistical processing; Databases; Force; Medical treatment; Muscles; Pneumatic systems; Robot sensing systems; bi-articular muscle; movement therapy; physical therapy robot; pneumatic artificial muscle;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Motion Control (AMC), 2012 12th IEEE International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Sarajevo
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1072-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1071-1
DOI :
10.1109/AMC.2012.6197123