Title :
Rehabilitation robots assisting in walking training for SCI patient
Author :
Sakaki, Takeshi ; Ushimi, Nobuhiro ; Aoki, Kazuo ; Fujiie, Kaoru ; Katamoto, Ryuji ; Sugyo, Atsushi ; Kihara, Yuki
Author_Institution :
Kyushu Sangyo Univ., Fukuoka, Japan
Abstract :
We have been developing a series of robots to apply for each step of spinal cord injury (SCI) recovery. We describe the preliminary walking pattern assisting robot and the practical walking assisting robot, which will be applied to the incomplete type of SCI to Quadriplegia. The preliminary experimental results are performed by normal subjects to verify the basic functions of the robot assisting and to prepare the test by SCI patients.
Keywords :
assisted living; diseases; gait analysis; injuries; medical robotics; neurophysiology; patient rehabilitation; Quadriplegia; SCI patients; SCI recovery; preliminary walking pattern assisting robot; rehabilitation robots; spinal cord injury recovery; walking training; Foot; Hip; Legged locomotion; Robot sensing systems; Training;
Conference_Titel :
RO-MAN, 2013 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Gyeongju
DOI :
10.1109/ROMAN.2013.6628413
