Development of gait training system powered by pneumatic actuator like human musculoskeletal system
| Autor: | Shin-ichiroh Yamamoto, Yoshiyuki Shibata, Tatsuya Nobutomo, Shingo Imai, Tasuku Miyoshi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Adult
Male Orthotic Devices medicine.medical_specialty Engineering Orthotics Young Adult Physical medicine and rehabilitation Gait (human) Gait training medicine Humans Gait Spinal Cord Injuries Pneumatic actuator business.industry Body Weight Stroke Rehabilitation Equipment Design Orthotic device Exercise Therapy Counterweight Human musculoskeletal system medicine.anatomical_structure Gait analysis business |
| Zdroj: | 2011 IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics. |
| DOI: | 10.1109/icorr.2011.5975452 |
| Popis: | The purpose of this study was to develop a body weight support gait training system for stroke and spinal cord injury (SCI) patient. This system consists of an orthosis powered by pneumatic McKibben actuators and a piece of equipment of body weight support. The attachment of powered orthosis can be fit to individual subjects with different body size. This powered orthosis is driven by pneumatic McKibben actuators arranged as a pair of agonistic and antagonistic bi-articular muscle models and two pairs of agonistic and antagonistic mono-articular muscle models like the human musculoskeletal system. The body weight support equipment suspends the subject's body in a wire harness, with the body weight is supported continuously by a counterweight. The powered orthosis is attached to the body weight support equipment by a parallel linkage, and its movement of powered orthosis is limited at the sagittal plane. The weight of the powered orthosis is compensated by a parallel linkage with a gas-spring. In this paper, we report the detailed mechanics of this body weight support gait training system and the results of several experiments for evaluating the system. |
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