Bio-inspired upper limb soft exoskeleton to reduce stroke-induced complications
Stroke has become the leading cause of disability and the second-leading cause of mortality
worldwide. Dyskinesia complications are the major reason of these high death and disability rates.
As a tool for rapid motion function recovery in stroke patients, exoskeleton robots can reduce
complications and thereby decrease stroke mortality rates. However, existing exoskeleton robots
interfere with the wearer ’s natural motion and damage joints and muscles due to poor human-machine
coupling. In this paper, a novel ergonomic soft bionic exoskeleton robot with 7 degrees of freedom
was proposed to address these problems based on the principles of functional anatomy and sports
biomechanics. First, the human motion system was analysed according to the functional anatomy, and
the muscles were modelled as tension lines. Second, a soft bionic robot was established based on the
musculoskeletal tension line model. Third, a robot control method mimicking human muscle control
principles was propo...
Source: Bioinspiration and Biomimetics - Category: Science Authors: Ning Li, Tie Yang, Peng Yu, Junling Chang, Liang Zhao, Xingang Zhao, Imad H Elhajj, Ning Xi and Lianqing Liu Source Type: research