The goal of this semester project at the EPFL is to combine the mirror therapy, the muscle tendon vibration illusion and new technologies to develop an interactive and virtual reality based rehabilitation method.
Further information coming.
M. D. Rinderknecht, F. A. Delaloye, A. Crespi, R. Ronsse and A. J. Ijspeert, “Assistance using adaptive oscillators: Robustness to errors in the identification of the limb parameters”, in Proc. International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR), Zurich, Switzerland, June 2011. [Peer Reviewed, Acceptance Rate: 38%]
Modern research on rehabilitation robotics is exploring various ways to cope with the interaction between robots and humans. One of these ways is to avoid forcing the human’s movement to a predefined trajectory, and to permit the human the complete control of the device at any moment. Hence, the robot should detect the user’s movement intention and react accordingly to assist the movement. New techniques are being developped, which can be through hardware adaptations, e.g. elastic elements between the actuators of the device and the human (Series Elastic Elements, SEE), or by a high level control using adaptive oscillators. The latter is able to synchronize to the human’s movement and to estimate the movements parameters (e.g. position, velocity, and acceleration). In consequence, the device can estimate the necessary torque/force to perform the movement and assists the human by a fraction of this torque.
International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics
June 29 – July 1, 2011, ETH Zurich, Science City, Switzerland
Rehab Week Zurich
June 27 – July 1, 2011, ETH Zurich, Science City, Switzerland
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