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<p>Generally, the rehabilitation process needs a physical interactions between patients and therapists. Based on the principles governing such human-human interactions (HHI), the design of rehabilitation robots received several attempts in order to abstract the HHI in human-robot interaction (HRI). To achieve this goal, the rehabilitation robot should be smart and provides a useful and comprehensive platform to track the patient status. In this paper, a biofeedback-based high fidelity smart robot for wrist rehabilitation is designed. This robot is intended for repetitive exercises without therapist intervention. Hold the two sets of wrist movement: flexion/extension and radial/ulnar derivation. Distinguished by its compact mechanism design, the developed wrist rehabilitation robot (HRR) offers high stiffness with a total absence of any friction and backlash. Based on EMG signal, the smart robot can understand the patient pain degree. Two features extractions are used to estimate the pain level. A fuzzy logic controller is implemented in the LabVIEW-based human-machine interface (HMI) to determine the desired angle and velocity in real time. Parameters and results of each exercise can be stored and operated later in analysis and evolution of patient progress</p>
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Generally, the rehabilitation process needs a physical interactions between patients and therapists. Based on the principles governing such human-human interactions (HHI), the design of rehabilitation robots received several attempts in order to abstract the HHI in human-robot interaction (HRI). To achieve this goal, the rehabilitation robot should be smart and provides a useful and comprehensive platform to track the patient status. In this paper, a biofeedback-based high fidelity smart robot for wrist rehabilitation is designed. This robot is intended for repetitive exercises without therapist intervention. Hold the two sets of wrist movement: flexion/extension and radial/ulnar derivation. Distinguished by its compact mechanism design, the developed wrist rehabilitation robot (HRR) offers high stiffness with a total absence of any friction and backlash. Based on EMG signal, the smart robot can understand the patient pain degree. Two features extractions are used to estimate the pain level. A fuzzy logic controller is implemented in the LabVIEW-based human-machine interface (HMI) to determine the desired angle and velocity in real time. Parameters and results of each exercise can be stored and operated later in analysis and evolution of patient progress

Design Of Smart Robot For Wrist Rehabilitation

International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems

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Generally, the rehabilitation process needs a physical interactions between patients and therapists. Based on the principles governing such human-human...

Design Of Smart Robot For Wrist Rehabilitation

Published Online: Jun 01, 2016

Page range: 1029 - 1053

Received: Feb 14, 2016

Accepted: Apr 12, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/ijssis-2017-906

Keywords
fuzzy controller, EMG signal, smart robot, HMI, features extraction, physical human-robot interaction

© 2016 Ismail Ben Aabdallah et al., published by Sciendo

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

Design Of Smart Robot For Wrist Rehabilitation

Published Online: Jun 01, 2016

Page range: 1029 - 1053

Received: Feb 14, 2016

Accepted: Apr 12, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/ijssis-2017-906

Keywordsfuzzy controller, EMG signal, smart robot, HMI, features extraction, physical human-robot interaction

© 2016 Ismail Ben Aabdallah et al., published by Sciendo

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

Keywords
fuzzy controller, EMG signal, smart robot, HMI, features extraction, physical human-robot interaction