Title :
The rehabilitation system of finger joints
Author :
Huang, Howard C. ; Siao, C.J. ; Chen, Y.G.
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Mechatronoptic Syst., Chienkuo Technol. Univ., Changhua, Taiwan
Abstract :
Stroke patients might lose their action for limbs act consequently. If they have not been treated with independent rehabilitation or external force rehabilitation in the long run, limb dysfunction might be happened to them. The purpose of this study is to develop a set of finger joints rehabilitation system. And mechanism and control technology are integrated in this rehabilitation device. With regards to the mechanism design, to use of micro gear motor with the screw as the way of transmission and it is driven by using link mechanism so as to act the finger plates. The flexion and extension of the finger can be done by the action of finger plates eventually. As for the interface system, it uses the embedded systems. It is done by inputting operating conditions through a touch panel. Moreover, to install the sensor of angle, displacement and pressure on the rehabilitation device so as to feed back the signals to back to the embedded system for data recording in order to provide the needed rehabilitation information for physician so as to attest the performance of the rehabilitation as well. It can truly improve the performance of the entire finger joint rehabilitation device system a lot.
Keywords :
embedded systems; end effectors; medical robotics; micromotors; patient rehabilitation; data recording; embedded systems; finger extension; finger flexion; finger joints rehabilitation system; finger plates; interface system; link mechanism; micro gear motor; rehabilitation device; screw; stroke patients; touch panel; Couplings; EPROM; Fasteners; Force; Thumb; Wrist; Control; Finger joint; Rehabilitation system;
Conference_Titel :
Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS), 2013 13th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Gwangju
Print_ISBN :
978-89-93215-05-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICCAS.2013.6704072