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<p>To improve the human arm function of disable patients after stroke, we propose in this paper a new design of a robot-assisted therapy. The robotic device must be attached to a human arm and mimics the motion of the shoulder, elbow and wrist joints. The functional training of the stroked upper limb is covered in motion and force via a safe compliant motion. The controller parameters are optimized by the therapist based on the human morphology parameters via an intelligent Control Interface where a Therapist-Patient Interface including the training mode configuration and the displaying the training data must motivate the patients during the assessment treatment progress.</p></abstract>

To improve the human arm function of disable patients after stroke, we propose in this paper a new design of a robot-assisted therapy. The robotic device must be attached to a human arm and mimics the motion of the shoulder, elbow and wrist joints. The functional training of the stroked upper limb is covered in motion and force via a safe compliant motion. The controller parameters are optimized by the therapist based on the human morphology parameters via an intelligent Control Interface where a Therapist-Patient Interface including the training mode configuration and the displaying the training data must motivate the patients during the assessment treatment progress.

Robot-Assisted Therapy: Design, Control and Optimization

International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems

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To improve the human arm function of disable patients after stroke, we propose in this paper a new design of a robot-assisted therapy. The robotic device must...

Robot-Assisted Therapy: Design, Control and Optimization

Published Online: Dec 01, 2012

Page range: 1044 - 1062

Received: Aug 16, 2012

Accepted: Oct 15, 2012

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/ijssis-2017-522

© 2012 Haifa Mehdi et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.