3-D/Quasi-3-D rehabilitation systems for upper limbs using ER actuators with high safety

Author

Haraguchi, Masanobu ; Kikuchi, Takashi ; Ying Jin ; Inoue, Akira

Author_Institution

Grad. Sch. of Eng., Osaka Univ., Suita

fYear

2007

fDate

15-18 Dec. 2007

Firstpage

1482

Lastpage

1487

Abstract

Rehabilitation for upper limbs is important for aged people, stroked patients and so on. In recent years, the needs for rehabilitation support systems are increasing, which use robot technology and virtual reality technology. Applying these technologies make efficient rehabilitation possible. But there was few rehabilitation support robot system for 3-D training with high safety. Therefore we have developed three different rehabilitation machines for upper limbs with high safety: "EMUL", "Robotherapist" and "PLEMO". In this paper, we introduce the recent researches of each robot.

Keywords

electric actuators; learning automata; medical robotics; patient rehabilitation; virtual reality languages; 3D training; Robotherapist; electrically controllable actuators; quasi-3D rehabilitation support systems; robot technology; upper limb rehabilitation; virtual reality technology; Actuators; Aging; Displays; Erbium; Industrial training; Medical robotics; Orbital robotics; Rehabilitation robotics; Safety; Virtual reality; ER fluid; Virtual Reality; rehabilitation robot; upper limbs;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics and Biomimetics, 2007. ROBIO 2007. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sanya

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1761-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1758-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROBIO.2007.4522383

Filename

4522383