Год выпуска: 2012 Автор: Prashant kumar Jamwal and Shane Xie Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 228 ISBN: 9783659109911
Описание
The ankle joint is a complex structure in the human musculoskeletal system and due to its location; the ankle joint is also the most common site of sprain injuries. Rehabilitation treatment reinstates ankle motions but the conventional approach is slow and tedious. Robot assisted treatment on the other hand has shown encouraging outcomes. Nevertheless, existing ankle robots suffer from inadequate design besides actuation and control related problems. This book presents the development of a wearable ankle robot which has bio inspired design, actuation and control. The parallel mechanism based design emulates the human musculoskeletal arrangement of actuators and provides natural ankle motions. Pneumatic muscle actuators, used in the robot, also display human muscle like characteristics. The adaptive control of the robot effectively scaffolds subjects in achieving rehabilitation goals. In the process, a new approach for multi-objective optimization has also been proposed. The issues...
