Stationary robotic trainers are lower limb rehab robots which often incorporate an exoskeleton attached to a stationary base. The aim is to recover range of motion, increase muscles strength and reduce joint stiffness. The issue observed in the stationery trainers which involve knee and ankle-foot complex joints simultaneously is that they restrict the natural motion of ankle-foot in rehab trainings due to the insufficient Degrees of Freedom (DOFs) of these trainers. This restriction makes the joints deviate from their natural motion patterns, exerting potentially harmful forces and strain the joints. In this work, we propose a new stationary knee-ankle-foot rehab robot with all necessary DOFs including knee flexion/extension in addition to ankle plantarflexion/dorsiflexion, ankle-foot abduction-adduction and foot supination/pronation. Axes of motions are determined based on the kinematics of the joints. A typical rehab training exercise has been considered to evaluate the system performance. The chosen training (i.e., passive assistance) was first implemented in simulation to synthesize the control loop and to extract the parameters required for selecting the robot’s components. The robot was then fabricated and tested on a healthy subject. Results showed that all natural motions of the ankle-foot complex were generated during the training. Therefore, the proposed system fulfils the desired aim properly, so that it can be utilized in the design of rehab robots.


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    Titel :

    A New 4-DOF Robot for Rehabilitation of Knee and Ankle-Foot Complex: Simulation and Experiment


    Beteiligte:
    Alipour, Afshin (Autor:in) / Mahjoob, Mohammad (Autor:in) / Nazarian, Ara (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    01.07.2022


    Anmerkungen:

    doi:10.18196/jrc.v3i4.14759
    Journal of Robotics and Control (JRC); Vol 3, No 4 (2022): July; 483-495 ; 2715-5072 ; 2715-5056 ; 10.18196/jrc.v3i4



    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch



    Klassifikation :

    DDC:    629 / 796






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