An Assist-as-Needed Controller for Passive, Assistant, Active, and Resistive Robot-Aided Rehabilitation Training of the Upper Extremity

Applied Sciences - Tập 11 Số 1 - Trang 340
Leigang Zhang1, Shuai Guo1, Qing Sun1
1School of Mechatronic Engineering and Automation, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China

Tóm tắt

Clinical studies have demonstrated that robot-involved therapy can effectively improve the rehabilitation training effect of motor ability and daily behavior ability of subjects with an upper limb motor dysfunction. This paper presents an impedance-based assist-as-needed controller that can be used in robot-aided rehabilitation training for subjects with an upper extremity dysfunction. Then, the controller is implemented on an end-effector upper extremity rehabilitation robot which could assist subjects in performing training with a spatial trajectory. The proposed controller enables subjects’ arms to have motion freedom by building a fault-tolerant region around the rehabilitation trajectory. Subjects could move their upper limb without any assistance within the fault-tolerant region while the robot would provide assistance according to the subjects’ functional ability when deviating from the fault-tolerant region. Besides, we also put forward the stiffness field around the fault-tolerant region to increase the robot’s assistance when subjects’ hand is moving outside the fault-tolerant region. A series of columnar rigid walls would be constructed in the controller according to the subjects’ functional ability, and the stiffness of the wall increases as the motion performance deteriorates. Furthermore, the controller contains five adjustable parameters. The controller would show different performances by adjusting these parameters and satisfy the requirement of robot-aided rehabilitation training at different rehabilitation stages such as passive, assistant, active, and resistant training. Finally, the controller was tested with an elderly female participant with different controller parameters, and experimental results verified the correctness of the controller and its potential ability to satisfy the training requirements at different rehabilitation stages. In the close future, the proposed controller in this work is planned to be applied on more subjects and also patients who have upper limb motor dysfunctions to demonstrate performance of the controller with different parameters.

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