Development of rehabilitation training support system of upper limb motor function for personalized rehabilitation

Issue title: Proceedings of the International Conference on Mechatronics and Information Technology (ICMIT 2005, ICMIT 2007)

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Uchida, Masaki^{a; *} | Morita, Yoshifumi^b | Magasaki, Masaya^b | Ukai, Hiroyuki^b | Matsui, Nobuyuki^a

Affiliations: [a] Department of Mechanical Engineering, Suzuka National College of Technology, Mie, Japan | [b] Department of Computer Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Masaki Uchida, Shiroko-Cyo, Suzuka, Mie, 510-0294, Japan. Tel.: +81 593 68 1773; E-mail: ma-uchida@mech.suzuka-ct.ac.jp

Abstract: In this paper we propose a new rehabilitation training support system of upper limbs with a teaching/guided function for personalized rehabilitation. The proposed teaching/guided function enables the therapists to easily make training trajectories of the resistance training to suit the individual needs of the patients. It is shown in this paper that two kinds of training programs requested by therapists can be made by using the teaching/guided function. In the algorithm of the teaching/guided function, the impedance control and modification of training trajectory are used. The availability of the teaching/guided function is verified experimentally.

Keywords: Rehabilitation training support system, personalized rehabilitation, resistance training, muscle strengthening training, impedance control

DOI: 10.3233/JAE-2011-1349

Journal: International Journal of Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics, vol. 36, no. 1-2, pp. 109-119, 2011