ZigBee Wearable Sensor Development for Upper Limb Robotics Rehabilitation

Author

Braidot, A.A. ; Cifuentes, C. ; Frizera Neto, Anselmo ; Frisoli, M. ; Santiago, A.

Author_Institution

Fac. de Ing., Univ. Nac. de Entre Rios, Parana, Argentina

Volume

11

Issue

1

fYear

2013

fDate

Feb. 2013

Firstpage

408

Lastpage

413

Abstract

This paper presents a novel tool oriented to upper limb therapy and rehabilitation and a new wireless sensors technology application in rehabilitation robotics destined to post-stroke patients. Design was based on Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) communicating trough of a ZigBee Network. This Body sensor network allows kinematics register and electrical activity quantification in muscles during rehabilitation therapy. The IMU implementation was based on a direction cosine matrix. The validation technique was represented by a kinematics measurement of tridimensional videography. Simultaneous registers, from cameras of kinematics videography and IMUs were compared on the gesture of reaching and grasping repetitions.

Keywords

Zigbee; body area networks; body sensor networks; medical robotics; muscle; patient rehabilitation; IMU implementation; Inertial Measurement Units; ZigBee wearable sensor development; body sensor network; direction cosine matrix; electrical activity quantification; gesture; grasping repetitions; kinematics register; kinematics videography; muscles; post-stroke patients; reaching; rehabilitation robotics; rehabilitation therapy; tridimensional videography; upper limb robotics rehabilitation; upper limb therapy; validation technique; wireless sensors technology application; Kinematics; Monitoring; Rehabilitation robotics; Robot sensing systems; Zigbee; 3D videography; ZigBee; inertial measurement unit; rehabilitation robotics;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Latin America Transactions, IEEE (Revista IEEE America Latina)

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1548-0992

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TLA.2013.6502838

Filename

6502838